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Architecture Students Innovate Precast Concrete for Affordable Housing Micro-Units

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Architecture professor Gernot Riether has teamed up with engineering professor Mohamed Mahgoub to develop the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI) Research Studio as part of a four-year grant from the PCI Foundation. The key components of the grant include industry partnership, new precast concrete curr...

Design and Life Cycle Assessment – eLCAd' 22 Recap

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Consideration of Cradle to Grave environmental impacts plays an increasingly important role in product design and development across the industrial spectrum. This aspect of architecture and design was the focus of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2022 (eLCAd 2022), a three-day internati...

Professor Glenn Goldman Exhibit at the Littman Library

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Professor Glenn Goldman’s exhibition Color and Composition, The (Mostly Architectural) Photography of Glenn Goldman at the Littman Library opened on February 14th. The exhibit features photographs that were mostly taken over the last six years, and have been cited or received awards at various compe...

Design Showcase Celebrates Work of Students, Alumni in Hillier's Biggest Event of the Year

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) transformed its gallery and packed its lecture hall for the college’s highly-anticipated signature event that celebrated student and alumni work, and hosted a presentation and Q&A by architect Andrew Whalley, chairman of Grimshaw. The Showcase gi...

Hillier College Students Share Their Experiences on Amazon College Tour

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
The New Jersey Institute of Technology is the first college in New Jersey to be featured in The College Tour, an Amazon Prime TV series produced by Emmy-nominated producer Lisa Hennessy and hosted by Alex Boylan. Each 30-minute episode provides a unique video tour of one US university, offering an i...

Design Showcase 2022 Presents Creativity, Practicality, Innovation and Design Process

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
Hillier College signature fundraising event Design Showcase 2022 will be held on Thursday, April 7 from 4:30 to 7:30pm in Weston Hall at NJIT. . As always the event will present top students and alumni work. In its 16th year now, the idea of a fundraising event was percolated from a conversation bet...

Airport City Newark Coalition Awarded Fourth Round of Funding

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022
Led by the members of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, the Airport City Newark (ACN) coalition recently received a fourth round of funding from the Prudential Foundation to further investigate the feasibility of their Aerotropolis concept, a transit-oriented development in the vicinit...

NJIT Is No. 1 in New Jersey to Study Game Design, Top 20 in the East

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East. Housed within the Hiller College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game develop...

Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25th, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's first African-American student, arrived at NJIT in 1922 from Cleveland High Sch...

"Abstract Geometries" Exhibit Debuts in Hillier College Gallery

Friday, February 18th, 2022
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design Gallery at NJIT opened its doors to its spring exhibition featuring professional artists Gianluca Bianchino and Kati Vilim. The works consist of abstract geometric paintings and wall reliefs in the manner of assemblage or multimedia sculpture. Curated b...