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Five Double Figure Scorers Lead NJIT in Overtime Victory at Home Over Central Connecticut State

Saturday, November 19th, 2022
Kenna Squier and Trinity Williams registered double-doubles as five Highlanders scored in double figures in NJIT's 71-65 overtime victory over visiting Central Connecticut State Saturday afternoon in non-conference women's basketball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. The win for the ...

Turing Laureate, Compiler Pioneer Jeffrey Ullman Visits NJIT for Data Science Lecture

Friday, November 18th, 2022
When a Turing Award winner speaks, NJIT faculty and students listen. Jeffrey Ullman, known as a father of the modern compiler at Bell Labs and Princeton University in the 1960-1970s, filled the largest lecture hall in NJIT's Guttenberg Information Technologies Center for his October 14 lecture on d...

NJIT Interior Design Student Haylee Merola Wins 2022 NEWH Green Voices Award

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Haylee Merola, 4th year interior design student at NJIT, is the undergraduate winner of the 2022 NEWH (Network of Executive Women in Hospitality) Green Voice Design Competition. The competition “provides students with the opportunity to showcase their design skills while utilizing the very best in s...

NJII Hosts US-German Council on Workforce, Education Reforms in Digital Economy

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
NJIT was a host site for an international delegation addressing challenges and identifying opportunities in education, workforce preparation, entrepreneurship and infrastructure arising from digitalization. New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation, welcomed the American Council o...

NJIT Students of Architecture Won the First Place in 2022 Timber in the City Competition

Thursday, November 17th, 2022
The winning design, Pine Hill, was developed by the Hillier College of Architecture and Design students ZhongMing Peter Zhang and Peter Koczarski, under the mentorship of their studio instructor Caroline Grieco. The Timber in the City is an annual student competition organized by the Association of ...

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importa...

Architecture Professor Wins NSF Grant to Develop Design Tools for Residential Housing

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won a National Science Foundation I-Corps award for the development of flexible and intuitive design tools for multifamily residential housing. This project proposes a platform for users to visually study possible...

Experts at NJIT's Data Science Summit Propose New Paths in Hardware and AI

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits. Such were two key messages expressed by experts from IBM and Goo...

NJIT Biologist Among Semifinalists in $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, November 14th, 2022
A U.S.-based team of scientists joined by NJIT biologist Eric Fortune is inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems, having recently been named semifinalists. The five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Hires a Leading Voice for Diversity

Monday, November 14th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology has tapped David E. Jones, a leading voice for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in higher education, to become its first chief diversity officer. Jones, who starts Dec. 1, joins from William Paterson University, where he has been chief diversity officer ...