Newly Renovated Weston Alumni Lecture Hall Officially Opens

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
The newly renovated Weston Alumni Lecture Hall, located on the ground floor of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is officially open. The lecture hall, formerly the Weston Lecture Hall, is named for the school’s alumni, whose donations helped fund the renovations. “This event has been a...

An Engineer and an Architectural Historian Win the 2021 Excellence in Research Awards

Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Nirwan Ansari, an electrical and computer engineer who is a pioneer in the field of communications networks, and Gabrielle Esperdy, an architectural historian and trailblazer in the digital humanities, are the winners of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research award for 2021. Atam Dhawan, sen...

Digital Archive of Newark Architecture Goes AR

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
There is nothing outwardly special about the old brick building on State Street and Broadway. To the layperson, it’s just another pile of bricks near a highway entrance. Through a phone app and a camera lens, the NJIT Littman Architecture Library’s Digital Archive of Newark Architecture (DANA) will ...

Bryan C. Lee Jr. '08 Named 2021 Cooper Hewitt Emerging Designer

Friday, September 24th, 2021
Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designe...

NJIT Tops NJ Public Universities for Early-Career Salaries, Ranks 14 Nationwide

Thursday, September 16th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and 14th nationally among public schools for early-career salaries, with young alumni bringing home just under $125,000 on average against just $7,600 in average debt, according to Forbes 2021 Top Colleges ranking. Statewide, only private...

NJIT Architecture Teams Win Princeton Sukkah Design Contest

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Jose Merino’s hands may never be this callused again. He’s leading one of two teams of NJIT architecture students to design and construct a 10x10 wooden hut called a “Sukkah” in rabinic tradition, for a design competition in Princeton later this month called “Sukkah Village 2021.” “I’ve always wante...

NJIT Climbs the Rankings of U.S. News & World Report, A Top 50 Public University

Monday, September 13th, 2021
– No. 103 among National Universities, up 15 spots from last year – NJIT Ranks 46th among public universities – Reputation score up for second year in a row; tied for second nationally in reputation growth over the last four years – Top 100 Best Value School New Jersey Institute of Technology has ri...

NJIT is an International 'Best Maker School' in Inaugural List by Make: and Newsweek

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is in rarified air as it has been recognized as one of 200 colleges and universities named a Best Maker School in Higher Education by Make: magazine and Newsweek. Across the university, NJIT houses facilities that encourage engineers, architects, designers, and sci...

Undergraduate Research and Innovation on Display at NJIT Symposium

Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
Countless hours of research and preparation were on display at the Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium as 134 students presented 108 projects to a group of peers, NJIT faculty and URI External Advisory Board members. The board selected three top project presentations for the...

Newark Community Museum Unveiled With Help From NJIT

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
The Newark Community Museum will stand at a flashpoint in history – the infamous police precinct where a rebellion began. Before any bricks can be laid, Roger Smith, adjunct professor at the NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design and design director at Gensler, was called on to lead the des...