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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 the ...

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 Vancouver,...

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 ways we live and ...

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...

NJIT's 11th International Undergraduate Research Symposium

Friday, July 27th, 2018
Plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air itself? Ujjwala Rai ’19, a chemical engineering major, has spent the summer studying bacteria found in the root systems of plants that can remove volatile organic compounds (VOCs), industrial compounds emitted by ubiquitous products such as pa...

Honors College Debuts Program Promoting Undergraduate Research

Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Chemical engineering major Jennifer Callaghan is spending her summer on the NJIT campus working to help define the next generation of ballistic materials. Laura Gould, an architecture student, is also at the university during the summer break, using Google Street View to study the correlation betwee...

Fiske Guide to "Best and Most Interesting" Colleges Features NJIT

Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, million...

NJIT alum expands the Brew-Watch Co. brand into sunglasses just in time for the summer

Wednesday, June 27th, 2018