Melissa Nieves ’19 is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects New Jersey 2022 Service Award. Nieves, associate architect for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, earned her master’s in architecture with a concentration in infrastructure planning. “Melissa has had the pleasure of becoming a leader and mentor inside and outside her workplace. She embodies what it means to be an advocate and representative for diversity and mentorship within the profession.” said the AIA.

NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive when they enter the workforce and understand the concept of safety in their professions.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has received a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Authority (USEDA) to support the transformation of an underserved area into an economic development hub based around Newark Liberty International Airport.

Student entrepreneurs at NJIT's annual New Business Model Competition had one word for the experienced judges this week: plastics. It's the opposite of the revered 1967 film The Graduate, where a young Dustin Hoffman receives that single word of career advice from an accomplished friend of his parents. But it holds true, as plastics technology was a common theme to the student winners, all born decades after the movie debuted.

NJIT women's soccer grad defender Siani Magruder was named to one of the United Soccer Coaches Division I All-Region teams, the coaches' organization announced Wednesday afternoon.

Paul V. Profeta, founder of the Roseland-based real estate investment company and namesake of NJIT’s Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center, placed in the No. 3 spot in NJBIZ’s Commercial Real Estate Power 50 rankings. In its annual list, NJBIZ characterizes Profeta as a “heavy hitter … where his insights on business, commercial real estate and economic development also ensure greater economic opportunity for residents.”

In daily battles with pathogens, legacy chemicals from long disappeared factories and a growing array of micropollutants, water treatment systems are often handicapped by clogged membrane filters. Replacing them regularly is both laborious and expensive.

NJIT Men's Cross Country placed a student-athlete on the America East All-Academic Team for the third season in a row after Matthew Morena was named to the team by the conference.

NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever. The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of research and innovation leaders in the state’s vast STEM economy early. Sixty-four percent of the class identify as female and 83% as students of color. When they graduate in May 2023, they will join an alumni cohort of over 700 Scholars.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.