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The recently formed Newark Design Collaborative (NDC) is engaging four students in a research project to study how other schools of architecture across the country have structured their community design engagement initiatives, from issues of scope and mission to practical details like funding and liability. The student team members conducting the research include Ebony Payne, Sam Roberts, Noelle Kruse and Silas McBride.

By Andrew McMains and Tracey Regan Two New Jersey Institute of Technology students who earned Fulbright awards this year will continue their studies in Canada on decidedly different paths.

Just about everyone in college has a Facebook account, uses their Instagram service, or knows someone who does, but Ying Wu College of Computing new graduate Catarina DeMatos is going to work there. DeMatos, of Chatham, first interned at Facebook as a rising junior in summer 2019, so she had an inroad to becoming an employee upon graduation this month with a B.S. in computer science.

Roberto Adamson, an aspiring technology leader who aims to create AI-driven convenience and efficiency for peoples’ homes and workplaces, will begin the next stage of his professional journey at one of the world’s preeminent STEM universities. Named the “Outstanding Senior” for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adamson will move to Switzerland this fall to pursue a master’s degree in electrical engineering at ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zurich, where he will specialize in control systems and artificial intelligence.

The NJIT baseball team has won a program-record seven-straight games and Dave Popkin came to the Highlanders' Newark campus to chat with Head Coach Robbie McClellan about the winning streak and preview the upcoming America East Playoffs. Popkin and McClellan discuss what has been going right for NJIT after a subpar start to the 2021 campaign.

Senior Day Photo Gallery 2021 Senior Day Ceremony NJIT swept Saturday's doubleheader from visiting UMBC for the second straight day, defeating the Retrievers 13-6 in game one before winning the nightcap 8-1 to complete the four-game series sweep at Jim Hynes Stadium in America East Conference baseball action.

New Jersey Institute of Technology will soon launch two new education and research centers focused on real estate and entrepreneurship, made possible by a historic gift from The Paul V. Profeta Foundation, Inc.

In just three years, Marina Arrese ’21 earned a bachelor’s in business administration at New Jersey Institute of Technology, even while fencing, serving as co-president of the NJIT Investment Fund, working at the campus Financial Analysis Lab and serving on the Dean’s Executive Student Leadership Council. The Madrid native reflected on the chock-full experience and shared her future plans (hint: she’s staying in Newark) in an interview with NJIT.

Among the honorees at this year’s College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards at NJIT were seven members of the Class of 2021 who earned the Outstanding Undergraduate Award. We caught up with four of them, who reflected on their unique experiences and accomplishments over the past four years and shared their bright future plans. Bhoomi Davé, Forensic Science B.S. and Biology B.A.

Samantha Swider ’21, fresh from the experience of earning a bachelor’s in chemical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology — which included three cooperative education roles, co-founding NJIT Green and running track, all as a member of Albert Dorman Honors College — is off to Merck, where she’ll work as an operations specialist. The Brick, N.J. native feels exceedingly well prepared, given some shrewd advice her advisor offered all the way back in year one.