Recent news reports have outlined issues with the water in parts of the City of Newark. NJIT has and continues to regularly, and independently, test our water to ensure the levels of lead are within the EPA standards for drinking water. While we have had some issues and concerns in the past, we have found them to be local in nature and not from the City water distribution in our area. When we have found something, we have shut down the source temporarily and made the necessary repairs to bring the results back into compliance.

The director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science has received an award from Facebook to support real-world analytics research. The research aims to develop faster learning patterns to make it easier for companies to extract actionable information from extremely large data sets.

Bipin Rajendran, an engineer who develops computing systems that aim to match the efficiency seen in nature by studying the organizational principles of the brain, has been elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators “who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society,” according to the Academy. They have also proved successful in patenting, licensing and commercializing their inventions.

Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited.

Crystal Smith has been appointed director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), effective July 1, 2019. Smith is responsible for EOP’s overall administration and supervision, which involves collaborating and coordinating with many universitywide departments and offices. She also sees to programs under the auspices of EOP, including the Black Engineering Technology Alumni Association, the Minority Engineering Program and the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

A contingent from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), which included new dean Oya Tukel, crossed the country in June to attend the Avanade FUEL Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Conference in Pomona, Calif. Among those invited to the prestigious event were 30 Avanade Scholars from three North American universities.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 385 Colleges," a designation only 13% of America’s four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college.

Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and stop signs with roundabouts, they wanted to be prepared for the questions that would come.

Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe.

“The Largest Voice Tech Event of the Year.” That was the official event billing that stirred a groundswell of attention from technology leaders and innovators, global brands and thousands more at the 2019 VOICE Summit held July 22-25 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).