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NJIT Athletics Announces 2022 Hall of Fame Induction Class

Monday, June 13th, 2022
NJIT Athletics is proud to announce nine new members that will make up the 2022 Hall of Fame induction class. The Annual Hall of Fame induction banquet will be held on October 8, 2022 in NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced...

CodePath Fellows Help Train Their Peers to Develop Android Apps

Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Two undergraduates have turned a free Android mobile app development course they took into a teaching moment through CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses at colleges and universities who support low-income computer science students.  Kush Patel, ...

NJIT Jumps in Global Rankings by QS, Led by International Metrics

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has improved its standing in a global ranking conducted by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a top collegiate evaluation firm based in Europe. NJIT now ranks in the top half of more than 1,400 schools evaluated worldwide, based on almost 2,500 colleges considered. ...

NJIT Ranked No. 10 Nationally in Money's 'Best College for Engineering Majors'

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top 10 Best College for Engineering Majors in the U.S., according to Money. The universities in the top 10, which also include MIT, Princeton University and Georgia Institute of Technology, emerged from Money’s 2022 list of Best Colleges, which ranked NJIT No...

NJIT Researchers Unveil Particle Accelerator Region Inside a Solar Flare

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy — equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once — physicists still haven’t been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Eart...

ECE PhD Candidate receives Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering wants to congratulate one of its PhD candidates and October 2021 ECE PhD Student of the month winner, Ludvik Alkhoury, for receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award in the category of Instruction by Teaching Assistants...

'iRecommend' wins GfK's NextGen Data Science Hackathon

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition. “iRecommend” is a pro...

NJIT-Led Team Revitalizes Teeth Through Tissue Regeneration

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and cement. What remains is a mineral shell in place of a living tooth. “Teeth lacking dental pulp are mo...

NJIT President-Elect Teik Lim to Discuss Innovation at NAI Meeting

Sunday, June 5th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology President-Elect Teik C. Lim will talk about innovation at the next annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors. Lim, who'll begin his NJIT presidency on July 1, is participating in a Presidents’ Panel on “innovation in university culture, innovating for fu...

Thirteen Highlanders Named 2021-22 America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes

Friday, June 3rd, 2022
The America East Conference has announced that 12 student-athletes from NJIT have been named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Thursday. The award recognizes graduating student-athletes ...