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NJIT Announces Appointment of New Dean for College of Architecture and Design

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

After an international search, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the appointment of Dr. Branko Kolarevic as dean of the College of Architecture and Design, effective July 1, 2019. Kolarevic received his Diploma Engineer of Architecture degree from the University of Belgrade in 1986 and his Master of Design Studies and Doctor of Design degrees from Harvard University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. "Dr. Kolarevic is a leader in his field with a superb record of accomplishments in education, research and administration,” said NJIT Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi...

4 NJIT Leaders Named to New Jersey Influencers Power List for 2019

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

ROI-NJ, a publication that reports on New Jersey economic news, released its ROI Influencers Power List for 2019. Featured on the list are Joel S. Bloom, NJIT’s president; Donald Sebastian, president of New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation; Judith Sheft, associate vice president technology and enterprise development of NJII; and Tomas Gregorio, NJII’s senior executive director, Healthcare Systems Innovation. Bloom, president of NJIT since 2011, has overseen tremendous growth on several fronts at the university. Through a $400 million campus transformation, he has expa...

NJIT ADVANCE: Highlanders Earn First ASUN Tournament Win at Dunk City

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The NJIT Highlanders (21-11, 8-8 ASUN) defeated the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (14-18, 9-7 ASUN) on Monday at the Alico Center, 83-78. The win was NJIT's first ASUN Championship win in program history and first road victory at FGCU. The Highlanders also tied their program record for wins with No. 21 set back in 2014-15 (21-12). Senior Diandre Wilson led the team in scoring with 26 points, followed by birthday-boy Zach Cooks with 25 points. Senior Abdul Lewis added 18 points and six rebounds in the effort. Lewis (768 rebounds) also became NJIT's all-time leading rebounder, surpassing Tim Cole...

Men's Fencing Captures 2019 MACFA Championship

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The NJIT men's fencing team captured the 2019 MACFA Championship highlighted by a first-place finish by Brett Bogert in the men's epee for the second consecutive season, hosted by Drew University Sunday afternoon. NJIT, which finished the regular season with a 21-6 overall mark, the best record in program-history, added to the teams 2019 resume, capturing the 2019 MACFA Championship title, dropping a total of just five bouts all day and, winning 121 out of a possible 126 bouts. Bogert, a sophomore from St. Augustine, Florida, won the men's epee individual championship for the second consecut...

From Moon Landings to Drone Competitions, NJIT Celebrates 100 Years of Engineering

Monday, March 4, 2019

Beginning this month, Newark College of Engineering (NCE) will kick off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary with a series of awards ceremonies, galas, historical tributes and engineering competitions to commemorate the school’s “Century of Public Service Through Engineering,” while inspiring NCE students to pursue new feats in engineering design and technological wizardry. There will be inspiration aplenty as the campus learns more over the course of the year about storied alumni such as Beatrice Hicks ’39, designer of a seminal innovation in gas sensor technology used in Apollo’...

Career Fair Draws Hundreds of Employers and Thousands of Jobseekers

Friday, March 1, 2019

It was a cold and windy Wednesday, but the winter weather didn’t stop the more than 2,200 students and alumni in search of internships, co-ops and full-time jobs from packing the Wellness and Events Center Feb. 13. There, 212 employers were recruiting for a range of positions — and doling out swag — at the Spring 2019 Career Fair, coordinated by NJIT’s Career Development Services. We spoke with some of the employers, many of them first-timers at NJIT, about the value career fairs hold for their talent pipelines, and how they prepared for the big event. (Above) Mark Parette ’83, of Parett...

New Jersey's Educators Arrive at NJIT To Celebrate Digital Learning Day 2019

Thursday, February 28, 2019

On Thursday, February 28, NJIT welcomed New Jersey’s teachers, school district leaders and stakeholders for an annual nationwide “celebration of technology paired with great teaching,” known as “Digital Learning Day 2019.” The event attracted nearly 300 educators and 200 attendees streaming on YouTube to learn about new technologies that enhance effective teaching and student learning. The event also kicked off the “2019 Certification Summit” for a record number of schools and districts pledging commitment to the Future Ready Schools-New Jersey (FRS-NJ) certification program — New Jersey’s in...

Laurent Simon, Engineer and Revered Mentor, is Called a Modern-Day Technology Leader

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Laurent Simon, vice provost for undergraduate studies, was recently named a “Modern-Day Technology Leader” at the 33rd annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Global Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes researchers, educators and entrepreneurs who are making a broad impact on the technology sector. Simon, an associate professor of chemical engineering, researches new methods to improve the delivery of controlled-release drug therapies. “A major challenge in the pharmaceutical industry is that cu...

The Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Program Present The Toxic Avenger The Musical

Thursday, February 28, 2019

New Jersey's first superhero takes the stage in this monster of a comedy based on the classic cult film. Based on Lloyd Kaufman's cult film and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, The Toxic Avenger is a charming love story and laugh-out-loud musical that has it all: an unlikely hero, his beautiful girlfriend, a corrupt New Jersey mayor and two guys who play ... well, everyone else ... bullies, mobsters, old ladies and stiletto-wearing back up singers. With book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music and lyrics by David Bryan, the show also features the most m...

Urban Machines: Gernot Riether's New Book on Public Space and Information Technology

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Gernot Riether, associate professor and director of the School of Architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at NJIT, co-authored a book on information technology and urban space with Marcella Del Signore, associate professor at New York Institute of Technology. “Urban Machines: Public Space for a Digital Culture” was published by LISTLAB earlier this year and describes how digital technology disrupted city life at the beginning of the 21st century by changing the way we communicate, we gain goods, and we receive information. It also speculates in how these changes may affect the...