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Students Share Discovery and Success at Dana Knox Research Showcase

Thursday, April 18, 2019
This week, nearly 50 of the year’s most promising NJIT student-researchers gathered to present their work to the campus community at the university’s annual year-end research competition — the 2019 Dana Knox Showcase “A Glimpse Into the Future.” At this year’s event, held open to the public on the second floor of the university’s Campus Center, students presented highlights from their research to attendees and more than 20 faculty-judges through poster demonstrations that ran the spectrum of scientific discovery at NJIT — from research exploring the social phenomena of live-stream...

Students Join the Force to Enhance Campus Safety

Friday, April 12, 2019
On any given day, they might be dressing a wound. Or they might be seeing that computers, phones and other personal property are not left unattended. Respectively, they are the student emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and community service officers (CSOs) at NJIT who, as volunteer members of a pilot program/new student club, are helping to make the NJIT campus even safer. The First Aid and Community Service Officer Program, launched this past fall, is overseen by the university’s Department of Public Safety and governed by the Student Senate. Not only does the program...

NJIT Hosts Traveling Exhibitions Exploring Nuclear War and Peace

Monday, April 8, 2019
On Friday, April 5, NJIT held the opening ceremony for the first of two internationally recognized peace exhibitions scheduled to be publicly displayed on campus this month, titled, "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit."  The 36-panel exhibition — showcased on the 2nd floor of the university’s Campus Center until April 18 — explores modern and historical issues related to nuclear weapons, and the role that citizen education can play in promoting nuclear disarmament and global peace.  The display will be followed...

NJIT Named a Top University for Campus Safety Initiatives ... Again!

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
For the second year in a row, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Department of Public Safety was cited among the Top 25 safest campuses in the country. Ranked 22nd out of 4,706 eligible U.S.-accredited higher-education institutions, the university is also the only school in New Jersey to receive this national honor for 2018. “Each department on the list has shown outstanding dedication to the improvement of campus and student safety at their institution,” said Linda Shaw, director of Safe Campus, the organization issuing the rankings and recognition. Safe Campus’ mission is to...

Minds Matter at NJIT: Raising Awareness of Mental Health

Monday, November 5, 2018
Across campus, students clad in lime-green T-shirts gave out ribbons, stickers and brochures, and in the Central King Building, an important discussion open to the NJIT community was held. Both activities marked NJIT’s observance of World Mental Health Day, Oct. 10. They also represented the first public endeavor of Minds Matter, a new student organization at the university dedicated to raising awareness of and stopping the stigma surrounding mental health disorders. Minds Matter was joined in planning and carrying out the day’s events by the NJIT chapter of the National Society of...

Friends, Family and Fun: NJIT Celebrates Homecoming 2018

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards Celebrate Success at Intersection of Art and Science

Friday, May 4, 2018
This May, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) celebrated a year of standout achievements from its faculty, staff, students and alumni at the 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony.  The annual springtime event recognized outstanding research and academic excellence across NJIT’s liberal arts and sciences communities — from mathematics, solar astronomy and environmental science to the social sciences, performing arts and literature. The event also highlighted recent landmark successes of the college, as well as new programs and plans for the coming...

Justin and Lauran Tuck Share Unique Journey to Raise Newark Student Opportunity

Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Not long after his arrival to the New York Giants in 2005, Justin Tuck and his wife, Lauran, founded Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy to bring greater educational and career opportunities to youth in the New York City metro-area. Nearly a decade on, the two continue to share their passion for education — appearing at NJIT for the Junior Achievement Career Success® Workshop College Series to meet with Newark-area high school students and speak with them about the importance of college and career.  Afterward, Justin and Lauran further discussed the inspiration...

Fake News, Cyberbullying, #MeToo: Law, Technology and Culture Director on Living in the Digital Age

Monday, April 9, 2018
Since 2017, NJIT students, faculty and administrators have gathered for “Talking Back to Hate,” a teach-in about ways to understand and overcome evolving challenges in the expanding digital media landscape, such as misinformation, cyberbullying, trolling and more. “Fake news is false information that works to divide us into ‘them’ and ‘us,’ and makes us believe that every unhappiness and injustice in our lives is the fault of ‘other’ groups of people,” said the event’s faculty co-sponsor, Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, director of the Murray Center for Women in Technology at NJIT. “Hate and...

New Jersey's K-20 Education Collaborative Meets at First-Ever "Cradle to Career" Summit

Thursday, April 5, 2018
In March, NJIT staged the first-ever “CLEAR: Cradle to Career” (C3 2018) Summit, aimed at “fostering a larger networked community of innovative and dedicated teachers, leaders, faculty researchers and students of all ages”. The summit — co-hosted by NJIT’s statewide K-20 Collaborative for Leadership, Education, and Assessment Research (CLEAR) — brought together an expansive audience of NJIT students, faculty and staff; K-12 educators and leaders; and public and private organizations throughout the state.   The event featured a day of presentations and networking events to help...

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