Started From The Bottom, Now She's Here: An Alumna's Journey to CEO

Friday, October 12th, 2018
DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL​ Toni Vasquez-Shawan ’10 was in the sixth grade when she started her architecture career as a telephone receptionist at T.I. Vasquez Architects & Planners, Inc. (TVAP), a Manila-based architecture firm founded in 1993 by her father Topy Vasquez. The design bug...

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...

NJIT Rises, Ranks in Top 15 Percent "Best Institution" Nationwide by College Factual

Thursday, September 20th, 2018
College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 15 percent nationwide in the overall “Best Institution” category for 2019, a 61-place jump compared to 2018 rankings. NJIT is now ranked 251 out of a 1,779 institutions nationwide, and 5 out of ...

NJIT and Essex County College Sign Joint Academic Agreement

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
Associate degree students from Essex County College (ECC) are now able to seamlessly transfer into appropriate and/or corresponding bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT.    On Sept. 17, 2018, the neighboring institutions in Newark signed a three-year joint academic agreement designed to pro...

NJIT Faculty Expert Rima Taher on 'Building Design for Wind Forces'

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
The faculty at the College of Architecture and Design (CoAD) continues to foster insightful discussion and riveting commentary in and out of the classroom. Senior University Lecturer Rima Taher’s textbook "Building Design for Wind Forces,” which was published by McGraw Hill Education, explores the ...

Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9th, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across...

37 College of Architecture and Design Students Exhibit Work at SIGGRAPH 2018

Thursday, August 30th, 2018
Thirty-seven students from the College of Architecture and Design had their work shown in the double-curated Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2018, an annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques convened by the Association of Computing Machinery, in ...

Research Lives! Undergraduates Take on Neurotoxins, Cave Disasters and Other Challenges

Monday, August 13th, 2018
A robotic fleet built to penetrate dark and narrow cave passages, cellular studies into alcohol’s role in hastening neurodegeneration in people with HIV, plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air and new methods for eliminating noise from data searches are a few of the research projects ...

Undergraduate Research Snapshot: Laura Gould Studies Urban Infrastructure and Sacred Spaces

Monday, August 6th, 2018
LAURA GOULD ’22 Major: Architecture    Hometown: Newark, N.J. “I'm working with Dr. Louis Hamilton on studying the correlation between architecture and the use and creation of sacred space in Italy. Almost all architects and even politicians like Winston Churchill agree that the wa...

The Time of His Life: Alumnus Jonathan Ferrer Designs Modern Luxury Watches

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Jonathan Ferrer sits in a cushy armchair inside the bustling coffee shop on the NJIT campus. The watch designer is in his element, casually scrolling through his phone while sipping a cup of joe amid the harmony of coffee beans grinding and milk gurgling. “I lived on campus when I was a student h...