– No. 103 among National Universities, up 15 spots from last year – NJIT Ranks 46th among public universities – Reputation score up for second year in a row; tied for second nationally in reputation growth over the last four years – Top 100 Best Value School New Jersey Institute of Technology has risen 15 spots in the 2022 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best National University Rankings. NJIT is ranked 103 out of nearly 400 schools on this list. NJIT also is ranked among the Top 50 Public Universities, coming in at No. 46. NJIT’s peer reputation score also increased over…

From NJIT to Apple to Google and back, senior computer science and mathematics major Ricky Palaguachi always expands his peer network around those who share Hispanic heritage. On campus, he's the webmaster for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), which welcomes students from any major. He is also a McNair student, receiving scholarships and support as an underrepresented STEM major aspiring to graduate study. As a software engineering intern, he associated with diversity groups called Amigos @Apple and Hispanic Googlers Network. Now, returning to campus, he's excited about…

Facebook, Merck, Brown University, the University of Minnesota, Venture for America and the U.S. Air Force are among the destinations of standouts from the Class of 2021 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at seven graduates.  Roberto Adamson: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule  The electrical engineering major from Costa Rica will pursue a master’s in the same discipline at ETH – a STEM powerhouse in Zurich, Switzerland – after studying abroad in France. Parth Agrawal: Venture For…

Amid the many new lab facilities that have recently risen across NJIT’s campus, Associate Professor of Philosophy Britt Holbrook is laying the groundwork for an initiative he contends will be just as vital in driving impactful research and innovation at the university and beyond for years to come — a center for ethics.  Working alongside faculty from NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts and Newark College of Engineering, Holbrook directs the university’s new Center for Ethics and Responsible Research (CER2). Its aim is to create a campus-wide culture of ethical STEM that permeates…

In the span of just a few short weeks, NJIT student Braeden Perdue has gone from taking a summer job as a community organizer helping promote COVID-19 vaccine education and access across New Jersey, to becoming a voice for health care equality during the pandemic that has reached the White House and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Recently, through his work as a COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach & Organizing Fellow with Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey (PPMNJ), Perdue got an unexpected invitation to join Dr. Fauci and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff at a press event for the White House…

Countless hours of research and preparation were on display at the Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium as 134 students presented 108 projects to a group of peers, NJIT faculty and URI External Advisory Board members. The board selected three top project presentations for the Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Awards, named for the late educator and engineer who supported NJIT’s Interdisciplinary Design Studio, TechQuest Innovation and URI programs. The first prize of $1,000 was awarded to Simone Bishara, a McNair scholar majoring in biochemistry, for her project, “…

In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit society. NJIT inducted 32 faculty members at the ceremony, as well as nine honorary members, including President Joel Bloom and Provost Fadi Deek. Chapter members must hold patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research, called the…

Vitriol — it’s not hard to find anywhere you look across Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and elsewhere online. The growing dilemma of our polarizing online discourse is also now the subject of a new documentary set to hit film festivals, featuring NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis. The film, Vitriol, explores the current state of vehement social media interactions from both sides of the political spectrum. Directed by Mark Clauburg (The Time In Between Seconds, The Girl Next Door), Vitriol makes its soft premiere in Jersey City Aug. 1, and is primed to make its official…

NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research and National Solar Observatory announce construction to bring NSF’s SOLIS facility to Big Bear Solar Observatory, paving the way for decades of richer observations of the Sun and explosive space weather events. NJIT-Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR)’s Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) will soon become the permanent home for National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) — the most advanced solar telescope capable of long-term and consistent monitoring of the “Sun as a…

Federal funding supporting New Jersey’s “Opportunity Meets Innovation” higher education challenge will introduce Newark high school students to forensic science as a pathway to college – and a STEM education – under a new program from New Jersey Institute of Technology. The NJIT Forensic Science Initiative (FSI) is backed by $1.4 million in seed money from the U.S. Department of Education, which the state is distributing in the second round of its Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund. FSI will welcome its first students in the summer of 2022 with a five-week intensive…