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NJIT Hosts Traveling Exhibitions Exploring Nuclear War and Peace

Monday, April 8th, 2019
On Friday, April 5, NJIT held the opening ceremony for the first of two internationally recognized peace exhibitions scheduled to be publicly displayed on campus this month, titled, "From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: Transforming the Human Spirit."  The 36-panel exhibition — sh...

Watch: NJIT Mathematical Sciences Professor Releases Major League Baseball Predictions

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Mathematical Sciences Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet has published his model’s projections of how the standings should look at the end of Major League Baseball’s regular season in 2019. For more than 20 years, Bukiet has applied mathematical models to compute the number of regular season ...

Dispelling Popular "CSI" Myths With NJIT's David Fisher

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
In 2012, CBS’s crime-fiction television drama, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” reached the zenith of primetime television ratings. That year, the show’s estimated 63 million viewers across five continents earned it the title of “most watched television show in the world” for the fifth time in the ...

Meet David Fisher: NJIT's First Professor of Practice in Forensic Science

Monday, January 28th, 2019
This month, NJIT’s forensic science program welcomed David Fisher — an expert criminalist previously with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) — to its faculty ranks. The announcement sees Fisher appointed as the university’s first-ever “Professor of Practice in Forensic Science”...

NJIT Mathematics Students Finish Finalists at 2018 NBA Hackathon

Monday, November 19th, 2018
In August, more than 700 teams comprised of statisticians, programmers, engineers and students from across North America applied to enter this year’s “2018 NBA Hackathon” — a data-driven competition to “build tools that solve important and challenging problems in the NBA.” It was then that a team o...

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will featur...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: City Resilience

Monday, October 8th, 2018
In the face of both natural and man-made threat to city infrastructure, greater pushes have been made toward the planning and design of “resilient cities” — cities positioned to protect and enhance urban life through development of components necessary to respond to terrorism, earthquakes, coastal ...

NJIT-Led Research Team Records Blazing-Fast Changes of Metal Nanofilms

Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Traditionally, many engineers and developers of solar cell technology have turned to crystalline silicon — a tried and tested material absorber capable of efficiently converting solar radiation to electricity at just four times the thickness of a strand of hair. At up to a 100th the thick...

NJIT Announces New Jersey's First Undergraduate Forensic Science Program

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
This fall, NJIT has announced it will launch its highly anticipated Forensic Science Bachelor of Science degree program — a unique program designed for undergraduate students interested in the rapidly expanding fields of forensic science and crime scene investigation.  The 120-credit degr...

Graduates Share Diverse Success Stories Across Science and Liberal Arts

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
This spring, NJIT’s 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards honored an exclusive group of its undergraduate and graduate seniors with the CSLA Outstanding Student Award — a distinction annually given to students who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence in their field. We c...