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NJIT Upsets Top-Seeded UAlbany, Advances to America East Championship Final

Thursday, November 12th, 2026
Junee Lee scored the game-winning goal in the 26th minute to lead fourth-seeded NJIT to a 1-0 upset of top-seeded UAlbany on Wednesday evening at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium, sending the Highlanders to the America East Championship Final. NJIT advances to the America East final for the first time i...

2026 Cybersecurity SFS Cohort Has a New Name – And AI-Related Approach

Thursday, November 12th, 2026
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI) has graduated 50 students since its inception as part of the pre-existing CyberCorps® Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) program, funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In return for competitive scholarship awards, which include full ...

NJIT Alumni to Build a ‘World First’ in Battery Recycling

Wednesday, November 11th, 2026
The old saying, “Waste not, want not,” rings especially true in America's Battery Belt. Today, roughly 10% of the material used to make an electric-vehicle battery ends up as manufacturing scrap. But a proposed $110 million project aims to turn that scrap back into material for producing new batteri...

Princeton Review: NJIT Maintains No. 1 Spot in State for Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology is once again the state’s top university for entrepreneurship education, according to new rankings from The Princeton Review. In addition to leading in the Garden State, Princeton Review ranked NJIT No. 2 in the Northeast for graduate entrepreneurship and No. 3 for...

From NJIT’s First Interior Design Class to HCAD Advisory Board, Adam Raiffe ’12 Comes Full Circle

Tuesday, November 10th, 2026
Before Adam Raiffe built a career designing spaces around people’s lives, he was part of a group of NJIT students helping shape something entirely new: the university's first interior design class. Years later, the architect and founder of Studio Raiffe has returned to NJIT's Hillier College of Arch...

From Education to Economic Development, the Newark and NJIT Partnership Delivers Community Impact

Monday, November 9th, 2026
For Deion Searles, a senior at Newark School of Data Science and Information Technology, summer at NJIT meant something unusual for a high school student: he could earn money while getting a head start on college. Searles was already participating in NJIT’s Math Success Initiative when he applied to...

Stores Jr.'s Buzzer-Beater Earns No. 2 Spot on ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays

Monday, November 9th, 2026
NJIT men's basketball's dramatic buzzer-beater against Saint Peter's earned national recognition, landing at No. 2 on ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays. Brandon Stores Jr. delivered the unforgettable moment Sunday afternoon, draining a half-court three-pointer as time expired to give the Highlanders ...

Men's Soccer Rallies Past New Hampshire, Advances to America East Semifinals

Saturday, November 7th, 2026
NJIT scored twice in the second half, including Junee Lee's go ahead goal in the 74th minute, to defeat No. 5 New Hampshire, 2-1, in the America East Quarterfinals Saturday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. With the victory, the No. 4 Highlanders improve to 9-5-4 overall and advance to...

Rebelo, Barboto Headline Six Highlanders Earning America East All-Conference Honors

Friday, November 6th, 2026
NJIT men's soccer was well represented among the 2026 America East Men's Soccer postseason honors, highlighted by Diogo Rebelo earning Striker of the Year and Maximus Barboto being named Midfielder of the Year, the conference office announced on Friday. The Highlanders collected six total All-Confe...

YWCC Awarded $1 Million Congressionally Directed Spending Grant to Support AI-Enabled Cybersecurity Clinic

Friday, November 6th, 2026
With leadership from the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT has been awarded a $1 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education that will support expansion of NJIT’s current student-powered Security Operations Center (SOC), establishing a student-run AI-enabled cybersecurity clinic, ...