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Ying Wu College of Computing Shatters Enrollment Records in Fall 2022

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) continues its upward trajectory as an NJIT enrollment leader, achieving a 17% increase relative to last year for a total of almost 4,100 students enrolled for the Fall 2022 semester. As such, YWCC now represents 34% of the entire NJIT student body for the new acad...

New Jersey Innovation Institute Finds a Leader for Strategic Partnerships

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute has hired Kathy Naasz to craft strategy and forge new partnerships between the university and industry.  This new position — vice president of strategic partnerships — will focus on analyzing current and future market opportunities, developing an eff...

Johmary Adames Discovers a New Side of Art & Design at NJIT

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Johmary Adames, an industrial design major at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is excited for the new semester. After participating in the Highlander Foundry program over the summer where she experienced entrepreneurship first-hand, she feels empowered...

Convocation Speakers Share Advice with Class of '26, Most Diverse Ever

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Jennifer Hensley 15, who majored in chemical engineering and now works for Merck helping determine long-term strategies for cancer immunotherapy drugs, told the incoming class at NJIT convocation yesterday that networking and time management were the most important skills you can learn outside of th...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT a Top 100 National University

Monday, September 12th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has continued its climb up the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities by breaking into the top 100 National Universities for 2023. Now ranked No. 97 in the nation, NJIT has risen 21 places in the last two years.  In t...

NJIT Women's Volleyball Splits Saturday Matches to Finish Weekend 2-1

Sunday, September 11th, 2022
The NJIT women's volleyball team won its second match in as many days on Saturday, defeating Saint Peter's in straight sets after suffering a four-set loss to host Providence earlier in the afternoon at Alumni Hall. The victory over the Peacocks was the Highlanders' second in as many days and third...

Own Goal Lifts NJIT Men's Soccer Win at La Salle

Sunday, September 11th, 2022
Visiting NJIT capitalized on an own goal by La Salle to win 1-0 Saturday evening in men's soccer non-conference action at McCarthy Stadium. NJIT registered its second road victory of the season, improving to 2-2-1 while La Salle moved to 1-2-2. VIDEO: NJIT Highlights at La Salle HOW IT HAPPE...

Elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program Continues to Attract Top Students

Thursday, September 8th, 2022
The NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has selected five top students to join the highly selective NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program in fall 2022. The competitive program includes a scholarship covering full tuition and fees f...

Xueyu Hou - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2022

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Xueyu Hou a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at NJIT, advised by Dr. Tao Han. Her research interests include deep Learning acceleration in mobile and edge computing, security of machine learning, distributed machine learning on edge, mixed reality, and live volumetric streaming. Bef...

Newark Campus Comes to Life as Students Return, Fresh Ambitions in Hand

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students arrived on campus en masse today, with a record 1,600 new students leading the way, plus thousands more sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students excited to start a new semester fully in-person for the first time since fall 2020. Underrepres...