The winners of this year's Interns and Co-ops of NJIT Contest stood out for how they embraced their initial responsibilities and earned advancements within their organizations, according to judges from Career Development Services.  Chemistry major Jennifer Mikulko ’23 earned intern of the year for her work as a laboratory assistant in two departments of cosmetics manufacturer Cosmax USA, and biology major Colette Lichtenstein ’22 earned top student in a co-operative educational experience for her efforts as a medical scribe at two New Jersey hospitals amid the COVID-…

New Jersey Institute of Technology welcomed two strong leaders who shared key advice on how women can establish themselves at work. The leaders, Catherine Wilson, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Newark, and Judith Sheft, executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology, led an online discussion during Equal Pay Day that was equal parts instructive, inspiring and frank. The event, presented by NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology and sponsored by Career Development Services and the Committee on Women’s Leadership, was the first in an “…

Noise has an outsized impact on quality of life for urban residents, but it can be hard to monitor and regulate. Cities, which have limited resources to enforce noise codes, often chase transient sources that disappear before inspectors arrive hours or days later. In a talk next Tuesday at NJIT’s 2021 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase, Mark Cartwright, an assistant professor of informatics, will describe the development of machine-listening tools to automatically monitor urban noise pollution. They include the collection and annotation of data and the training and…

All-time highs in freshman applicants are being reported this year at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA), according to the university’s latest admissions report for fall 2021. NJIT’s Office of Admissions says CSLA’s freshman applicants this year (approximately 2,500) have risen more than 15% from 2020 and 25% compared to pre-pandemic totals in 2019 (1,850). “The increase in freshman applicants and interest in the many degree programs offered by the College of Science and Liberal Arts are likely due to a number of factors, chief among them a confluence of circumstances over…

For the second straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has broken its record for first-year student applications with a total of more than 11,250. All five of NJIT’s academic colleges experienced increases, led by a 21% jump from the Martin Tuchman School of Management, which eclipsed 1,000 applicants for the first time. The application surge is a multi-year trend and comes as NJIT gains national recognition for its programs, research capabilities and student outcomes, including the high-paying jobs and coveted graduate school opportunities alumni realize after graduation. …

This March 23-25, New Jersey Institute of Technology is set to join the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (ACDL-NJ) and New Jersey State Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD) in co-hosting the 2021 Forensic Science Summit for the Criminal Defense Bar — the leading annual forensic science conference for New Jersey’s defense attorneys and investigators. The three-day virtual event, via Zoom, promises a unique venue for exploring the rapidly evolving world of forensic science that is shaping criminal defense proceedings in courtrooms today. “Both prosecutors and…

New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked in three subject areas in the 2021 QS World University Rankings By Subject list, marking the third year in a row NJIT has earned a spot on the global ranking. The full 2021 rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organization specializing in education — can be found at topuniversities.com. The QS rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper, and a citation impact index calculation. QS analyzed 1453 institutions across 51 subjects in five subject areas, resulting in nearly 17,000 published…

It’s estimated that an average-sized wastewater treatment plant serving roughly 400,000 residents will discharge up to 2,000,000 microplastic particles into the environment each day. Yet, researchers are still learning the environmental and human health impact of these ultra-fine plastic particles, less than 5 millimeters in length, found in everything from cosmetics, toothpaste and clothing microfibers, to our food, air and drinking water.   Now, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have shown that ubiquitous microplastics can become ‘hubs’ for…

If you were one of the 96.4 million viewers of this year’s Super Bowl LV, chances are you were watching the work of NJIT alum Ryan Brown flash across your TV screen all night without realizing it. Since leaving NJIT with a Communications and Media B.A. degree, Brown ’15 has moved into the position of graphics operator with CBS Sports, heading up the production crew responsible for the flurry of slick fonts, statistics and other graphical information that fans see accompanying nationally televised sporting events from the NFL, NCAA and more.  That includes two Super Bowl…

The Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Program is taking the classic late-medieval period morality play, Everyman, into the digital age.  The cast and crew have recently debuted their spin on the original for online streamers — titled Every_01: A Morality Play — where audiences follow the protagonist as they contemplate all the good and bad deeds they’ve done throughout their life while visiting with personifications of ideas like Death, Good Deeds, Knowledge and Friendship. Originally written around the time much of Europe was recovering from a time of plague, RU-NJIT…