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Engineer Michel Boufadel, one of the world’s chief experts on oil spills and a frequent consultant on cleanups, is the winner of the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Award for 2022. Denis Blackmore, a mathematician who specialized in measuring and modeling changes in a range of dynamic systems, was honored posthumously with the Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award.

New Jersey Institute of Technology students are forming a pair of computer security groups this semester, with the mutual goal of preparing students to hone their skills beyond the classroom.

One group is NICC — NJIT Information and Cybersecurity Club — and the other is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group of (virtual) Breaking and Entering.

New Jersey Institute of Technology and Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev officially opened a research center, the Institute for Future Technologies, located in the NJIT @JerseyCity satellite location.

Although the Institute and research there began last year, the opening ceremony only happened now due to pandemic-related delays.

The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) held Café y Conexiones to kick off this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations at NJIT. 

Launched in January 2022, Café y Conexiones brings together NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx students with HLLC members, alumni, and business and civic leaders in the Hispanic and Latinx communities on a regular basis during the academic year.

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 the classroom.

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.

Oluwanifemi Fuwa fabricated face masks to protect people from COVID-19.

Kaily Peixoto volunteered at a senior center and handed out scarves to homeless individuals at Newark’s Penn Station. 

Nyssa Nixon volunteered at Isaiah House shelter through Jack and Jill of America and tutored peers as a member of the National Honor Society.  

Scientists at NJIT and in Germany are working to understand how ions congregate around nanoporous materials, which could lead to safety and reliability improvements for electronic components such as supercapacitors and microscopically tiny actuators.

Nanoscale porous materials are used in everyday objects such as household water filters and gas masks, but there is little research into how such surfaces behave when interacting with electrolytes, which can create internal stress that changes the material's physical properties.

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 and went on to have successful careers,” Forbes explained. 

Vishva Rana ‘23, a Goldwater Scholar, has always been interested in addressing sustainable issues. The mechanical engineering major, minoring in innovation and entrepreneurship, has been working on a real-time air quality monitoring system and hopes to see it implemented in Newark’s Ironbound.