Associate professors at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Gernot Riether and Andrzej Zarzycki, led a group of 16 NJIT students in a study abroad trip to Austria where they worked on the redesign of a public space that connects the art venues of the Kunstmeile, art mile, in Krems.
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Eight Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) students have recently begun their journey as members of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program during fall 2023 through the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startup and entrepreneurial support to the masses, he primarily relied upon sheer will and the conviction to settle for nothing less than 100%... the rest would be learned over time.
The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) along with HISPA (Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement) celebrated Hispanic Heritage month at NJIT during HISPA’s Role Model Program Kick-off and Recruiting Event.
LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
The application is the brainchild of Fizah Fahad, Adrianna Rust and Ayushi Sangoi, who combined to win a $1,500 cash prize for their efforts. The trio coded in CSS, JavaScript, Python and a NASA programming interface.
Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT.
Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of a subject. Mohan’s research area in the Sensorimotor Quantification and Rehabilitation Lab (SQRL) is the ongoing pursuit of improving concussion management.
NJIT’s Honors Summer Research Institute scholars added to their curriculum this summer as the undergraduates focused on a wide range of research projects that will help build their knowledge as they seek future career goals.
In its sixth year, the Honors Summer Research Institute (HSRI) hosted a record number of Scholars, more than doubling in size, and awarding over $90,000 in grants. The HSRI provides participants with an eight-week interdisciplinary workshop sequence that helps them develop their research projects and communication skills.
During the pandemic, Alixs Pujols ’24 read an article that inspired her to become an undergraduate research assistant at the Laboratory of Endocrine Disruption & Chemical Biology (EDC Lab). That article showed how researchers had found nanoplastics in the placenta, which caught Pujols’ attention.
There aren’t many better places in the region to be than NJIT if you’re an undergraduate student aspiring to become a medical professional, and the numbers are backing it up.
This year’s entire graduating cohort from NJIT’s Pre-health Program has been accepted and is matriculating into graduate health professional programs of their choice, according to NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).
The America East Conference has announced that 12 student-athletes from NJIT have been named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Thursday.
