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Trevino Welcomes Four Newcomers to 2022 Women's Volleyball Roster

Thursday, August 11th, 2022
The NJIT women's volleyball team hit the court for its first day of practice on Thursday and fourth-year Head Coach Pedro Trevino officially welcomed four new faces to the squad. In addition to the four student-athletes, Assistant Coach Jackie Ahlers is also in her first season ...

Men's Soccer Welcomes 13 Recruits as Part of 2022 Incoming Class

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Seventh-year head coach Fernando Barboto announced that 13 players will be joining the NJIT men's soccer program as part of the 2022 incoming class. The incoming class will be joining a Highlander squad that advanced to the America East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament semifinals in bac...

Highlander Foundry Showcase Gives Students Opportunity to Present their Startups

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
After concluding their eight-week summer program, NJIT students presented their startups, giving them an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship and business creation. The Highlander Foundry program is a summer startup incubator that helps NJIT students and alumni grow with the same techniques a...

Akhyurna Swain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2022

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Akhyurna Swain is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently, she works in the Sensor Research laboratory under the advisory of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research area focuses on the development and ...

Computing Student Makes Fake Tweets Detector, Satire Checker is Next

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
We've all wished that some people on social media would use a fake news detector before sharing, and now an NJIT computer science student has built one that works pretty well. Natalia Smith, a junior from Newark, said her fake news detector application has performed with up to 90 percent accuracy i...

As CEO of Construction Management Firm, NJIT Alum Finds Strength in Diversity

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
When it comes to diversity, Ken Colao leads by example. More than a third of the 90 staffers ­— 38% — at his construction management company, CNY Group, is Black, Indigenous or other people of color (BIPOC). Also, in an industry not known for gender balance, women comprise nearly a third of th...

Women's Basketball Gives Back to the Community

Monday, August 8th, 2022
The NJIT women's basketball team took time from its summer workout schedule to give back to the community teaming up with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) in Hillside, NJ. Members of the women's basketball team and coaching staff offered their assistance inside the CFBNJ warehouse prepa...

NJIT Police Lead 4th Annual Navy Seal Hudson River Swim

Saturday, August 6th, 2022
A cadre of NJIT police officers led hundreds of Navy SEALs, fellow veterans and military supporters in the pre-swim run from Liberty State Park Sept. 11 Monument to the Hudson. The attendees then swam across the Hudson and ran to their final stop at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan as part o...

NJIT Police Department Pledges to Advance Women in Policing

Friday, August 5th, 2022
On August 3, 2022, the NJIT Police Department signed on to the 30x30 Pledge – a series of low- and no-cost actions policing agencies can take to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement. The activities help policing agencies assess the current state of a department with...

Smart Microrobots Learn How to Swim and Navigate with Artificial Intelligence

Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability. There has been tremend...