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Haro Hartounian, Ph.D., Featured by ROI-NJ in 2021 List of Health Care Influencers

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Dr. Haro Hartounian, SVP and general manager of BioCentriq, was recognized as a Sector Star in ROI-NJ's annual list of influencers in the health care industry. ROI-NJ wrote, “With all the news about research that is coming to the state, don’t forget about BioCentriq, a concept-to-clinic c...

Turbocharging the Internet Fulfillment Revolution

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Sanchoy Das recalls his first jaw-dropping view of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in 2013. The word “explosive” came to mind. Gone were the single-product sections where boxes of diapers and paper towels were stacked next to each other in neat rows. Instead, these products were dispersed throug...

NJIT Goes Into Venture Capital Business with $6.75M Plan for Next Decade

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Highlanders who want to start a business will soon have access to a $75,000 seed investment from the university's new Venture Fund as part of a 10-year, $6.75 million commitment funded by the NJIT endowment. This marks the first time New Jersey Institute of Technology will directly fund startups. N...

Women's Soccer Shuts Out UAlbany In Senior Day Overtime Battle

Sunday, October 24th, 2021
The Highlanders are still alive. In a Senior Day home finale with major America East tournament implications, the NJIT women's soccer team earned a hard fought 1-0 overtime victory over the UAlbany Great Danes Sunday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. Fifth-year Christine Conag...

Regsan Watkins Scores Game-Winner in OT, NJIT Picks Up 3-2 Win at Binghamton

Saturday, October 23rd, 2021
NJIT fifth-year Regsan Watkins scored the game-winning goal in the 94th minute of overtime as the Highlanders picked up its first road win of the season with a 3-2 victory at Binghamton Saturday afternoon in America East Conference men's soccer action at Bearcats Sports Complex. ...

NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22nd, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “B...

Living with Trash: Dumps to Density and Recycling to Upcycling

Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Organized by AIA New York, Pratt Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, NJIT’s Hillier School of Architecture, and SOM, AIA New York and the Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place New York, are hosting Wast(ED): Living with Trash on Tuesday from 3-8pm. The two panels, Fr...

How the Largest African American Architecture Firm Walks the Talk

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
Brian Tibbs ‘91 was recently named the managing partner at Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned architecture firm in the United States  and recognized by AIA as the 2021 Firm of the Year, its highest honor for an architecture office. Moody Nolan was founded in 1984 by Curtis Moody, F...

Humanoid Robot Makes Debut in International Competition

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
After eight years of development, the humanoid robot named TOCABI (Torque Controlled compliAnt BIped) is finally completed, making its debut at the international ANA AVATAR XPRIZE competition.  New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Mathew Schwartz began working on the design o...

NJIT's Basu Roy Integrates Humans and Computers to Optimize Tasks and Learn Facts

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
In the early days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, researchers scrambled to decipher the novel virus — its transmission pathways, its effects on the body, its vulnerabilities. Senjuti Basu Roy, a computer scientist, wondered in turn how lay people absorbed the reams of emerging information they recei...