After a table saw severed the top of his right index finger, Adam Zanellato, a 20-year-old cabinet-maker at the time, had to relearn basic hand maneuvers, such as how to write and hold a fork. There were no affordable prosthetics on the market to help him regain dexterity. Several years later, he still found it hard to pick up coins from a table. A year and a half ago, he decided to restart his search, and began by contacting a friend in medical school for leads. The woman, an NJIT graduate, made this recommendation: present himself as a research project to students in…

They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers. Indeed, graduate students are pursuing degrees in a range of academic disciplines through a variety of instructional formats, from traditional classroom or face-to-face learning, to online and hybrid (combines online and face-to-face) learning. Also, many of NJIT’s undergraduate students are enrolled in accelerated programs to take advantage of course double-counting that…

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university moved up two slots this year to No. 87 — up 24 slots in the past five years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, which celebrated its centennial in 2019, offers a range of master’s and Ph.D. degree programs. In recent years the college has greatly expanded its laboratory, hands-on and experiential learning components, increased student access…

NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year. Chief engineer Yichao Zhang and lead programmer Dale Nacianceno — the former a senior, the latter a freshman — are leading the Highlanders to Louisville, Ky. to play in a tournament comprising up to 92 teams, after qualifying with a victory at a College of Southern Maryland tournament in February. The league is operated by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, which is a…

By the end of this month, Rukayat Balogun will be working at Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will be located just outside of Atlanta for this new position, which came her way last fall when a fellow student in NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) introduced Balogun to a visiting Facebook recruiter. The company flew her down south for what turned out to be a series of video interviews, followed by a bit of a wait. “The interviews went well, but it was nerve-wracking…

At the American Institute of Chemical Engineering’s (AIChE) inaugural ChemEsports Competition in Orlando last November, Alexander Olowniuk’s eyes were fixed on the bubbling chemicals in his team’s distillation tower, a cylindrical vessel used in plants to separate volatile liquids into their pure forms at high heat.   “If we had overheated the chemicals, they would have become overexcited and then failed to separate properly. Had we not monitored other disturbances in the process, our distillation tower could have spiraled out of control and the effects been near irreversible,” recalled…

Choose New Jersey, a nonprofit organization advocating for business investments in the Garden State, included an NJIT representative in its delegation visit to Israel this month. The organization sent 16 representatives from academia, business and government to meet their peers and pitch New Jersey as a good choice for U.S. operations, particularly for high-technology companies and startups. They also visited in October 2018, but this year was the first time an NJIT representative went along. NJIT is represented on the Choose New Jersey board of directors by President Joel Bloom and sent…

As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences were in for plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater. The Rutgers/NJIT Theatre Arts Program in collaboration with the local arts-based organization, Express Newark, was involved in hosting the two-day 2020 Newark Improv Festival (NIF). Diverse troupes and performers from across the U.S. arrived in Newark to showcase their improvisational…

NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7.  NJIT’s Boris Khusid, professor of chemical and materials engineering, and Lou Kondic, Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics, will join researchers from NASA, New York University and Streamline Automation in conducting a set of experiments, titled “ACE-T-Ellipsoids”, at the ISS to explore the fundamental science of…

It’s here! Feb. 17-21 marks the annual Student Appreciation Week at NJIT. Dozens of activities, giveaways and events will take place across campus as part of the 2020 celebration. Here, many of NJIT’s schools, centers, offices and programs express their appreciation for the students of NJIT.   "University Admissions appreciates the positive ways our students contribute to the community at NJIT.” — Admissions "We appreciate the many diverse talents, the energy and the enthusiasm of our Honors students. They are wonderful ambassadors for our university, and they are the …