New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) today announced applications are open for an ambitious expansion of their workforce development partnership with Verizon, supported by a grant from the telecom company. Managed by NJIT’s Learning and Development Initiative, this program, expected to launch in early April will provide no-cost, high-impact training in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and IT to eligible New Jersey residents in order to bridge the digital skills gap.
More than 40,000 students attend classes in Newark, some in schools built before 1920. Repairing and maintaining those structures are massive undertakings. A project led by NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge to create digital twins of every building managed by the Newark Board of Education (BOE) is providing school administrators with the data needed to make more strategic decisions about the highest priority capital renovations.
The New York Red Bulls and NJIT invited 60 students from Harrison High School to take part in a soccer-related STEM education program, which included eight different stations.
This event, held at Sports Illustrated Stadium, provided an educational, hands-on experience, paired with physical activity opportunities manned by RBNY staff.
One critical component of delivering quality education is the provision of optimal spaces for student learning. In July of 2024, Terra Meierdierck, energy and education program manager at the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK), a research center at NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design, was granted a fourth award for work with the Newark Board of Education (BOE) to support the public school district's assessment of their facilities.
When the staff at Malcolm X Shabazz High School decided to build a makerspace, which is a first for a Newark public school, they turned to New Jersey Institute of Technology for advice and training.
The school's science department chairman, Jackly Nazaire, would like to see engineers, mathematicians, programmers and scientists join the ranks of the school's notable alumni — such as singer Gloria Gaynor, singer Cissy Houston whose daughter was superstar Whitney Houston, former New York mayor Ed Koch and Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.
As the federally supported COVID-19 Community Vaccination Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology entered its final days, leaders of the operation that ultimately delivered 221,450 vaccinations in 90 days recognized each other for their cooperation, professionalism and humanity.
Officials from FEMA, the National Guard, U.S. Air Force, N.J. Department of Health, N.J. State Police and NJIT spoke during a ceremony inside the center, even while Air Force personnel continued to deliver vaccinations.
Priscilla Maryanski, a first-year computer science major from Jersey City, was always told that learning by doing was the only way to succeed at college — but at NJIT she discovered a different approach of learning by doing good deeds.
Since April 2020, Maryanski has been a volunteer at Erevna, a multinational, student-led organization founded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that focuses on community service.
In the first of a series of events honoring its 25th anniversary, the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT held a live, online celebration. Reflecting on the anniversary of the college that he endowed, NJIT alumnus Albert Dorman revisited his remarks from its inauguration, and they are as relevant today as they were in 1995 — perhaps even more so.
Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success.
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJIT, for example, hears stories from his mother, a physician working on the front line at Mountainside Hospital.
