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Two Recent Grants Support Programs and Services for Pre-College Students

Thursday, October 10th, 2019
NJIT is one of six higher education partners in New Jersey awarded federal funding over the next seven years, from the U.S. Department of Education, for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). Here in Newark, the university’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP)...

NJIT Launches ScholarshipUniverse: A Scholarship-Matching Tool for Students

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Oct. 9, 2019 – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced it is now offering a new way for students to connect with scholarship opportunities through the launch of ScholarshipUniverse — a “state-of-the-art digital scholarship-matching system aimed toward maximizing funding for students....

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding...

Highlanders Take a Trip to the Federal Reserve

Monday, October 7th, 2019
As the state of our economy receives greater and greater attention, last week a group of Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) business students were given the opportunity to leave their classrooms and see things for themselves at the New York Federal Reserve in New York City. Organized by Zhip...

NJIT Shuts Out VMI, 5-0, Rene White Becomes NJIT D1 All-Time Scoring Leader

Saturday, October 5th, 2019
NJIT redshirt junior Rene White scored a pair of goals and became NJIT's Division I All-Time scoring leader with 28 goals as the Highlanders shutout visiting VMI, 5-0, in non-conference men's soccer action on Homecoming Weekend at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. In pregame ceremonies, NJIT re...

NJIT Student Launching New Mobile Payment App for Small Businesses

Friday, October 4th, 2019
Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay. Visit a vendor at a farmers market and you’ll find many accept credit or debit cards using an attachment on their smartphone from Square or Clover. T...

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

Friday, October 4th, 2019
MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award. Zhou, distinguished professor of electrical and comp...

NJIT Students Come in 1st With Election-Inspired Hackathon Project

Friday, October 4th, 2019
It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win. With the upcoming election season expected to be fraught with doctored videos of famous figures aiming to influence voters — known as deepfakes — Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan, along with two te...

NJIT Promotes Lenny Kaplan to Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Lenny Kaplan, who has headed New Jersey Institute of Technology's division of physical education and athletics since August 2000, has been promoted to the new title of associate vice president/director of athletics. Kaplan has been instrumental in guiding the program's growth, first at the NCAA Div...

Management School Heads to France for Spring Break Study Abroad

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Building on last year’s fruitful trip to Germany, NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), in collaboration with the university’s Office of Global Initiatives, is again offering a faculty-led study abroad trip during Spring Break — this time to Lyon, France, in March 2020. Students will le...