A student who majored in digital design at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned an award from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to hone her animation and storytelling skills at one of the best animation programs in the world.
April 30th, from 8:15am - 4pm NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition are hosting a one-day virtual conference focused on how cities can work together with their airports to optimize economic, societal, and environmental benefits in support of job generation and equitable, inclusive growth. Two key sessions will address the successes of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Amsterdam Airport- Schiphol and their airport city strategies.
Nicole Palacio and Okhyun Des Lauriers were both awarded scholarships for interior design by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH).
Palacio is a 3rd year design student who submitted work she completed in 2nd year with Prof. Goldman. Des Lauriers is also a third year interior design student.
The spring Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design (eLCAd 2021) symposium brought together experts and practitioners working in life cycle assessment with architects and designers, with the goal of establishing shared language, tools and applications across disciplines and scales.
Mark Thaler, M.Arch ‘94, is co-leading Gensler’s Global Education Practice, where they have set out to address the inequities in education and reimagine learning.
Kelly Hutzell, an urban designer and licensed architect, brings fifteen years of teaching and academic program development experience to her role as director of the School of Architecture at NJIT. Her academic career has been bolstered by more than a decade of practice, including at Machado and Silvetti Associates and OverUnder in Boston focused on public buildings and spaces. Having worked at Carnegie Mellon (formerly Carnegie Tech) and Wentworth Institute of Technology, she is aligned with the lineage of all three of these polytechnic institutions.
Not unlike the way interior design plans change as concepts develop and become better; Ida Colón knows that in professional life it is important to embrace change, because that is what brings about development, maturity and opportunity.
After a year layoff, one of NJIT’s standout annual research events returned to the campus community this month — more than 30 of the university’s top student-researchers took to their webcams to present their work for a virtual audience at the 2021 Dana Knox Research Showcase, "A Glimpse Into the Future.”
Renee Collins, B.S. Industrial Design ‘18 went to high school at Sussex Tech and obtained her cosmetology license there. When her best friend was admitted to NJIT, Collins came along for the campus tour and thought, “This is pretty nice,” and applied. “I think I had an idea of what Industrial Design was but I didn’t really understand. I wanted to design products for the beauty industry instead of being a hairdresser. It was a lot larger than my conception of it.
Hillier College welcomed new advisory board members Kim Vierheilig ’99 ’00, Robert "Bob" Fritz ’88, and Jordan Hillier Adams.
Each brings new perspectives to the vision and leadership that the advisory board has provided to the college since its inception.
