NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center (WEC) has been dedicated with a new name — the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center — for outstanding contributions made by the university’s eighth president and former first lady that span more than three decades. On Oct. 6, the campus community came together for the naming of NJIT’s world-class 220,000-square-foot multipurpose building, as Joel and Diane Bloom were honored with a dedication ceremony recognizing their “visionary leadership, steadfast advocacy, and years of exemplary service to the university community.” NJIT President Teik C.…

Daniel Henderson finds himself in great company. Henderson, a pioneer in wireless picture and video messaging in cell phones, is now featured on Lemelson-MIT’s online wall of inventors, which includes the likes of Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison and Hedy Lamarr. Henderson, an overseer at New Jersey Institute of Technology who also serves on the Board of Visitors of NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College, holds 31 U.S. patents and is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In addition, two of his prototype wireless devices — created 30 years ago this year — are part of the collection at the…

LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The application is the brainchild of Fizah Fahad, Adrianna Rust and Ayushi Sangoi, who combined to win a $1,500 cash prize for their efforts. The trio coded in CSS, JavaScript, Python and a NASA programming interface. LunaTech was one of 31 submitted projects, built by approximately 130 participants, all working on site from the Campus Center ballroom, said event director Shaili Soni, president of…

A New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic team’s crime scene reconstruction of a 1994 shooting in Queens, N.Y. has helped clear the names of two wrongfully convicted men who spent a combined 37 years in prison for murder. A long-awaited moment of vindication came for Armond McCloud (incarcerated for 29 years) and co-defendant, Reginald Cameron (incarcerated for eight years), when their convictions were vacated last month by a state Supreme Court judge in Queens after a joint motion was filed by the New Jersey Innocence Project at Rutgers University, the New York City Legal Aid Society…

In an effort for students to share their insights and drive positive change within the NJIT community, Provost and Senior Vice president for Academic Affairs John Pelesko, and Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Marybeth Boger have launched the NJIT Undergraduate Student Advisory Council.  This council will enable enthusiastic undergraduates to have informal conversations with the provost and the dean of students, helping to keep NJIT leadership informed, in real time, about the student experience.  “It’s important to not just plan for the next semester, but to…

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from 118 to 103 to 97 and now 86 — and supports the findings of other publications that rate U.S. universities, including Money and The Wall Street Journal, which placed NJIT as the second-highest ranked public institution nationally. In key areas like student social mobility and value…

Computer science and religion are rarely thought of together as connected research areas, but it’s going well for NJIT student Fernando Mantilla, who is performing a geospatial analysis of more than 200 street shrines in Newark’s historic Ironbound neighborhood. The shrines are tributes to important figures in Catholicism, generally made from painted tiles but sometimes in the form of statues, canvas paintings or photographs. They are located in the windows and entryways of homes and small businesses. They are common in ancient cities like Rome, but also in Catholic communities throughout…

New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no. 88 among national universities in a ranking based on overall value, service and social mobility, as determined by the non-profit Washington Monthly magazine. The publication’s editors emphasized that such categories are important alternatives to traditional college rankings that tend to favor wealthy, private institutions. “Instead of rewarding schools for their prestige, wealth, and exclusivity … we give points to those that help non-wealthy students earn remunerative degrees, encourage students to vote and serve their country, and…

NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increase of 23% from the previous year — as of Sept. 1. This year’s incoming freshman class is the largest and most diverse in school history.  “We’re truly happy to have you join this community of learners, scholars, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs,” said NJIT President Teik C. Lim. “In…

New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton University among colleges and universities in New Jersey.  The new list replaces the former WSJ/Times Higher Education ranking with some similar methodology components. It uses a much larger survey, however, and places more emphasis on student outcomes and feedback from students and alumni. It’s also…