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NJIT is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Daniel White as the University’s new associate provost for Online Programs effective Sept. 1, 2021. Dan comes to NJIT from Temple University where he served as associate vice provost and founding director of the Office of Digital Education (ODE) from 2014 to 2021.

The NJIT Department of Public Safety teamed up with the Historic James Street Commons Neighborhood Organization to give away 100 backpacks to local high school and elementary students. The initiative is part of a longstanding practice of constant improvement between the NJIT Department of Public Safety and the campus’s surrounding community.

New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and 14th nationally among public schools for early-career salaries, with young alumni bringing home just under $125,000 on average against just $7,600 in average debt, according to Forbes 2021 Top Colleges ranking. Statewide, only private schools with higher tuition ranked above NJIT for early career salaries. In overall rankings, NJIT is No. 89 among public colleges nationwide, Forbes stated.

It wasn’t more than a few months after she graduated with a biology degree in May of 2016 that NJIT alumna Pamela Carman swapped the university’s labs and lecture halls for a classroom all her own, just minutes from campus at Newark’s East Side High School. Since then, Carman has become the driving force behind an up-and-coming curriculum that is training the city’s high school seniors in the latest investigative techniques used by professional forensic scientists. Already, she’s earned award-winning success along the way.

Jose Merino’s hands may never be this callused again. He’s leading one of two teams of NJIT architecture students to design and construct a 10x10 wooden hut called a “Sukkah” in rabinic tradition, for a design competition in Princeton later this month called “Sukkah Village 2021.” “I’ve always wanted to do a design competition that involved us actually building it,” said Merino of his team’s project, “A Windowed Sukkah.” The design team includes Daniela Liberato and Albert Dorman Honors Scholars, Claudia AbouDiwan, and Silas McBride.

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The NJIT men's and women's cross country teams opened their 2021 campaign with strong showings at the annual Fordham Fiasco meet Saturday afternoon at Van Cortlandt Park.

Monuel M. Aulov, Associate Director of Research for Ying Wu College of Computing, was a 21-year-old U.S. Marine Corporal at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. As the anniversary of the attack approaches, he reflects on that day, his immediate realization that “we were going to war” and the end of that conflict 20 years later. Q: What were you doing on the morning of Sept. 11?

Speakers at TEDxNJIT 2021 will explain how technology impacts everything from knee-replacement surgery and the monitoring of traumatic brain injuries to how we’ll live in the wake of the global pandemic.