How Creativity, Persistence and Skills Will Get You Just About Anywhere

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Renee Collins, B.S. Industrial Design ‘18 went to high school at Sussex Tech and obtained her cosmetology license there. When her best friend was admitted to NJIT, Collins came along for the campus tour and thought, “This is pretty nice,” and applied. “I think I had an idea of what Industrial D...

NJIT Professor Becomes Editor in Chief for Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has named Gabrielle Esperdy, Professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, to the role of editor in chief for the Buildings of the United States (BUS) book series and SAH Archipedia. BUS was inspired by the famous Pevsner Guides to Buildin...

The Hillier College of Architecture and Design History Project

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
This story was submitted by Maya Gervits. As we approach the 50th anniversary of the New Jersey School of Architecture at the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design, working on preserving the narratives of the college’s history seems both timely and necessary. Such a st...

Architecture Alumna's Group Enables Women to 'Be Heard, Be Seen, Be Known'

Monday, March 22nd, 2021
Joann Lui '11, an architect in Lawrenceville, N.J., is only 32 but may have already helped more people thrive in her field than most professionals could mentor in a whole career. In 2018 Lui founded a Facebook group called Women Architects Collective, which now has more than 3,000 members who join f...

NJIT Fields Record Number of Applications from First-Year Students for 2nd Straight Year

Friday, March 19th, 2021
For the second straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has broken its record for first-year student applications with a total of more than 11,250. All five of NJIT’s academic colleges experienced increases, led by a 21% jump from the Martin Tuchman School of Management, which eclipsed 1,00...

NJIT Symposium Hosting Leading Practitioners in Sustainable Design

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
If you have ever checked a product to see if it is low emission, energy efficient or sustainably sourced, you may be looking at information that has been derived from life cycle inventory (LCI) records in any of several curated national public or proprietary databases.  On March 30 to April 1, ...

Environmental, Social and Governance Decisions Leading a Tectonic Shift

Thursday, February 25th, 2021
“Capitalism is the biggest system we ever invented but we  need to try and make it better so that it works for the planet and people. We know we don't want to have all of the excesses and negative externalities.” Marcelo Palazzi, Co-Founder B Lab The Annual Construction Industry Network Global...

Littman Library Book Talk: Mohamed Elshahed '05 on Cairo Since 1900

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Mohamed Elshahed '05 will be speaking about his book Cairo Since 1900 - An Architectural Guide, (AUC Press, 2020), the first substantive survey of modern architecture in Egypt’s capital spanning 226 sites, on Wednesday March 3rd, at noon, Free and open to the public, we hope you can join. ...

Measurable Environmental Impact: Life Cycle Assessment in Design

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
In his recent book, An Environmental Life Cycle Approach to Design, author John Cays, associate dean for academic affairs and interim director of the School of Art + Design, opens the door of environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to the world of design. Cays posits that in the hands of designers...

Dezeen Magazine Features Industrial Design Professor's CT Scan Images

Monday, February 22nd, 2021
The work of Mathew Schwartz, assistant professor at Hillier College is featured in this article and used for the Dezeen Awards 2021 identity. Dezeen is a global and well recognized design magazine, featuring influential architecture and design from around the world.  ...