Summertime Look Back: The Events That Elevated the NJIT Campus
Although quiet this year due to the pandemic, summer has traditionally been a busy time at NJIT. In this first of a six-part series, we look back at some of the many happenings over the past three summers that bolstered and brightened the university. Click on the headlines below.
NJII Opens Agile Strategy Lab in Renovated Central King Building
Once home to thousands of Newark Central High School students, the Central King Building on the NJIT campus exemplifies intelligent, creative and economically impactful urban redevelopment that serves students, industry and the local community. New Jersey Innovation Institute’s new $7 million Agile Strategy Lab is located at the east end of the building facing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
It's Official! NJIT Unveils Leir Research Institute for Business, Technology, and Society
It was a gathering to not only inaugurate a new research institute on the NJIT campus, but also celebrate a longstanding relationship between the university and a committed foundation partner and benefactor. NJIT administrators, faculty, staff and students, as well as distinguished guests, joined one another in the Campus Center Ballrooms to officially launch The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Research Institute for Business, Technology, and Society, made possible with a five-year $1.5 million grant from The Leir Charitable Foundations.
What a Day! A Senator, Mayor, Congressman and CEO Visit NJIT
NJIT welcomed several special guests to campus Aug. 7 for a showcase representing the culmination of the Ras Baraka Coding Institute at NJIT, part of the Newark Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The program offers participants work experience with a summer income while teaching them valuable employment skills. Senator Cory Booker and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka were on hand to hear presentations by the students as well as engage in a “fireside chat” with them, discussing their own paths to success. Also visiting was Dexter Goei, CEO of broadband communications and video services provider Altice, one of many SYEP funders.
Celebrated Architects' Historic Gift Injects New Energy into the College of Architecture and Design
New Jersey Institute of Technology has renamed its College of Architecture and Design for J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier to reflect the globally renowned architects’ historic donation to the university. Their gift, the university’s largest ever, will enrich the architecture and design program in many ways: with scholarships that diversify the pool of talented architects entering the profession and funds for the technology that will advance it, to name just two.
Mayor's Honors Scholars Program Announces Recipients of Three Scholarship Awards
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka officially announced the three students selected as Mayor’s Honors Scholars from the high school class of 2019 on June 28, 2019 in NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC). In his introductory remarks, Bloom described how students enrolled at the ADHC have a wealth of opportunities to optimize their own educational path.
Voice Summit 2019: World of VOICE Technology Returns to NJIT
“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. Nearly doubling the turnout for the inaugural VOICE in 2018, an estimated 5,000 attendees poured through NJIT’s campus over the four-day event to explore the latest-and-greatest in the growing world of voice-first technology, which is making its impact felt in everything from health care delivery, finance and business communications, to entertainment, shopping and home life.
Center for Pre-College Programs at NJIT Celebrates the Big 4-0!
This year marks four decades of NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) providing STEM education and college preparedness to rising fourth- through 11th-grade students in New Jersey. With NJIT Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus Howard Kimmel as a lead figure in its development, CPCP was founded with the aim to “increase access to scientific and technological fields among traditionally underrepresented populations and to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in secondary and elementary schools.”
