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NJIT Researchers Published for Discoveries in Battery Technology

Thursday, October 25, 2018

NJIT researchers are finding alternative solutions to a material that has become an essential, yet costly, building block in the supply chain of today’s smart device-driven world — cobalt. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Dibakar Datta and his research team were recently published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, a prestigious journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Datta’s team, alongside collaborators from three other universities, have computationally designed electrode materials and procedures that reduce the cobalt concentrations in ubiquitous rechargeab...

Professor of Neurobiology Awarded for Research Excellence

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

2 First-Year Architecture and Design Students Share Why They Chose NJIT

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Every year, we go through the ritual of rounding up some of the newest members of our student body: astute first-year students, who are critical thinkers in pursuit of a dynamic intellectual environment and insightful instruction. And every year, even as the average overall SAT score of our incoming class (1287) and undergraduate enrollment (1,296 freshmen selected out of 8,126 applications) continue to soar, we marvel at all the ways these gung-ho boundary-pushers descend on campus with a clear vision for their future, ready to take ownership of their education. Meet two new kids on the blo...

Mini MBA Partnership Program Boosts Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Eighty-two percent of participating businesses reported profitability, while overall they secured $776 million in government, institutional and corporate contracting. These are just two of the noteworthy results* of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation’s (CEDC) Mini MBA Program. The seven-month hands-on course provides practical business education, a supportive business network and access to capital and contracting — all of which enable participants to gain the “management know-how and networks needed to think like a CEO, grow revenue, increase jobs and be contract-capable an...

NJIT Men's Basketball Season Tickets on Sale for 2018-19 Home Games

Monday, October 22, 2018

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Department of Athletics has announced it's men's basketball ticket packages for the 2018-19 season. All home games will be played at NJIT's new home, the Wellness and Events Center (WEC). The Highlanders opened the doors of the brand new $102M facility on November 11, 2018 when the Highlanders hosted Wagner College. With nearly 3,000 in attendance, Highlander fans enjoyed all of the new amenities the WEC offers which include: free parking, chair-back seats, a state-of-the-art video board, the NJIT Official Team Store, and concessions. This season...

NJIT Women's Soccer Ranked No. 10 in South Region Poll

Monday, October 22, 2018

The historic NJIT women's soccer season continues as the Highlanders receive the programs first-ever, ranking (No. 10) in the latest United Soccer Coaches South Region. NJIT (11-4-1) is coming off a 2-1 victory over Kennesaw State (ranked No. 8 in the South Poll), heading into the final weekend of the regular season with a potential first-round bye into the 2018 ASUN Conference Women's Soccer Championship. The Highlanders have clinched the programs first-ever spot in the ASUN Conference Tournament, since joining the league in 2015-16, and sit atop the women's soccer standings. Other teams r...

An NJIT Vision Therapy Team Wins "Most Innovative" in Worldwide VR Competition

Sunday, October 21, 2018

An NJIT-led team of engineers, game designers, artists and clinicians won two major international awards for its vision therapy platform, including “most innovative breakthrough,” at the 2018 Augmented World Expo Europe (AWE EU), the leading industry conference for augmented reality technology. The competition pitted NJIT against 114 teams from design programs at MIT, Caltech, NASA and other leaders in the field. Sponsors of the award, announced in Munich before hundreds of designers, CEOs and investors from the sector, also include the global engineering organization IEEE and VR First, the v...

From Euthanasia to Gene Editing: A Q&A With Bioethics Expert Arthur Caplan

Thursday, October 18, 2018

In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian controversially brought the issue of physician-assisted dying to the forefront of a conversation at the crossroads of medicine, technology, law and morality — known as bioethics. That conversation has only become more complex today, as scientific advances continue to create new challenges for bioethicists considering the consequences of technology and how it may reshape medicine and society. Some countries have legalized or are now considering legalizing forms of physician-assisted dying for patients seeking to avoid technological death. The rise of new gene-edit...

NJIT's Rajesh Davé is Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Rajesh Davé, a problem-driven inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have fueled advances in such diverse areas as weapons safety and drug delivery systems, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Drawing on physics, chemistry and engineering, Davé’s research into the behavior of particles is fundamental and his methods for adapting them, widely applicable. For example, by shaking granular or particulate materials along with nanomaterials, which form a thin coating around them, he is able to optimize their flow, among o...

Leading Women Entrepreneurs Honors Gale Tenen Spak

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Gale Tenen Spak, associate vice president of Continuing and Distance Education at NJIT, has been named one of the Top 25 Leading Women Intraprenuers by Leading Women Entrepreneurs and its presenting sponsor. Spak and the other honorees were feted at a special awards reception and ceremony on Oct. 15. Leading Women Entrepreneurs, a media and events company that recognizes outstanding women business owners and corporate leaders, aims to create a sustainable, ongoing environment that brings leaders together and showcases their attributes and contributions. In addition to Spak and NJIT, the yearl...