The Center for Student Entrepreneurship, newly created at New Jersey Institute of Technology, will centralize and grow the university’s resources that expose students to the spirit and skills necessary to think in an innovative mindset.

Other entrepreneurship resources at NJIT also welcome undergraduates, but until now these students have not had a center focused solely on them, explained Kathy Naasz, executive director of student entrepreneurship. She is also a research professor in NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management.

NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERGs) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Hispanic/Latino ERG by profiling two of its members: Jorge E. Fresneda-Fernandez and William “Willie” Araujo.

Back-to-school buzz has returned to campus, and with it has come the latest wave of promising first-year students hailing from NJIT’s home city of Newark.

Roman Oben, the National Football League’s vice president of football development who played 12 years in the league as an offensive tackle, spoke to NJIT athletes and employees on campus at the start of the fall 2024 semester.

Three prominent members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology community have been elected to the National Academy of Construction (NAC), a prestigious national organization that recognizes distinguished leaders in the field of construction. 

The legacy of Kelly O’Connor, who was an active alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology for 30 years, endures with two new scholarships that will serve female students who are interested in STEM.

Business publication ROI-NJ features three leaders from New Jersey Institute of Technology in its 2024 lists of influencers in higher education.

Numbers pervade athletics, from the major professional leagues to amateur levels to public betting, and now NJIT is getting into the game with an academic concentration in business and sports data analytics beginning in fall 2024.

What are the latest innovations around artificial intelligence, how will it change the way we work and what safeguards are needed to address systemic inequities?

Data scientists, policy experts and the head of a state commission will examine these issues and more at “Intelligent Uses of Artificial Intelligence: Making Technology Work for All of Us,” an upcoming conference from the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective. 

Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda.

Fresneda started his career as a chemist and then became an expert in neuroanalytics. He studies how measurements of brain activity and skin conductance can predict a person’s emotions with high accuracy, and how such information can be used in fields such as entertainment, management, marketing and well-being.