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NJIT's Rima Taher Works with Habitat for Humanity to Save a Veterans Memorial Hall in Passaic, NJ

Sunday, November 27th, 2022
Rima Taher, Senior University Lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at NJIT, is working with Habitat for Humanity on a project in Passaic, NJ to rebuild Albert Lawson Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, which was deemed unsafe and forced to close in December of 2019. The n...

The Center for Community Systems at NJIT Helps to Build More Resilient Local Communities

Sunday, November 27th, 2022
The Center for Community Systems has received FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) funding through a subgrant from the NJ Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM), to create the Technical Assistance for Resiliency Program. NJIT TARP supports NJ’s vulnerable communities through capability- and ca...

NJIT Students of Architecture Won the First Place in 2022 Timber in the City Competition

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
The winning design, Pine Hill, was developed by the Hillier College of Architecture and Design students ZhongMing Peter Zhang and Peter Koczarski, under the mentorship of their studio instructor Caroline Grieco. The Timber in the City is an annual student competition organized by the Association of ...

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importan...

NJIT Trains State Staffers on the ABCs of Energy Management

Thursday, November 10th, 2022
The head of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design is teaching the basics of energy management to a group of more than two dozen staffers from state agencies. The staffers serve as energy managers at some 15 state entities and have different levels of expertise. As such, De...

Sustainability Front and Center as Bloomberg Businessweek Hosts Live Show on NJIT's Campus

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec took their show on the road and across the river to NJIT’s campus for a live panel show on sustainability. The Green Energy and Climate Adaptation Panel featured Jonathan Menard, chief research officer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab; De...

Johmary Adames Discovers a New Side of Art & Design at NJIT

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Johmary Adames, an industrial design major at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is excited for the new semester. After participating in the Highlander Foundry program over the summer where she experienced entrepreneurship first-hand, she feels empowered...

Convocation Speakers Share Advice with Class of '26, Most Diverse Ever

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Jennifer Hensley 15, who majored in chemical engineering and now works for Merck helping determine long-term strategies for cancer immunotherapy drugs, told the incoming class at NJIT convocation yesterday that networking and time management were the most important skills you can learn outside of th...

Newark Campus Comes to Life as Students Return, Fresh Ambitions in Hand

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students arrived on campus en masse today, with a record 1,600 new students leading the way, plus thousands more sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students excited to start a new semester fully in-person for the first time since fall 2020. Underreprese...

NJIT Rises to No. 75 on Forbes' 2022 List of America's Top Colleges

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology jumped 114 places to No. 75 on Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Top Colleges.  The national ranking is based primarily on return on investment and outcomes for students. “Schools placed well if their students graduated on time, secured high salaries and low debt...