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No. 4 Women's Tennis Upsets No. 1 Northwestern State, Advances To Southland Championship

Sunday, April 24th, 2022
One. Win. Away.  A back and forth affair between the No. 4 seed NJIT women's tennis team and top seeded Northwestern State broke in favor of the Highlanders in a thrilling 4-3 semifinal upset Saturday afternoon at the University of New Orleans' University Tennis Courts.  The Highlanders ...

Track and Field Picks Up Two Wins, Two Records At Rider Invitational

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
A pair of event wins and new school records highlighted the NJIT track and field teams' trip to to Central Jersey tor Saturday's Rider University Invitational. HIGHLANDER VICTORIES Sydne Nance took first in the 200 meters, leading the field with a time of 25.35. Daniella Vito once aga...

Women's Tennis Ends Season In Southland Conference Championship Match

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
The NJIT women's tennis team's magical run through its first Southland Conference Tournament came to a close Sunday afternoon as the No. 3 seed Highlanders were defeated by No. 2 seed Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 4-1, in the Southland Championship match.  NJIT concludes its season with a 12-8...

NJIT Upsets No. 2 Seed Harvard, Advances to Conference Finals

Thursday, April 21st, 2022
Third-seeded NJIT is heading to the EIVA Conference finals for the second time in program history after upsetting second-seeded Harvard, 3-1, Thursday afternoon in the EIVA Conference semifinals inside Rec Hall. NJIT (17-10), which won its fourth straight match of the season, dropped the first set,...

Architecture Students Innovate Precast Concrete for Affordable Housing Micro-Units

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Architecture professor Gernot Riether has teamed up with engineering professor Mohamed Mahgoub to develop the Precast Concrete Institute (PCI) Research Studio as part of a four-year grant from the PCI Foundation. The key components of the grant include industry partnership, new precast concrete curr...

Design and Life Cycle Assessment – eLCAd' 22 Recap

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Consideration of Cradle to Grave environmental impacts plays an increasingly important role in product design and development across the industrial spectrum. This aspect of architecture and design was the focus of Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design 2022 (eLCAd 2022), a three-day internati...

NJIT Professor Wins Prized Fellowship to Explore Newark's Environmental Justice History

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Neil Maher, NJIT master teacher and professor of history, has been named fellow for The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. The fellowship traditionally attracts outstanding scholars, writers and visual artists from around the world. Fellows colla...

NJIT Expert Evaluating Self-Driving Car Behavior at Yellow Lights

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
There's Musk-level hype about autonomous vehicles, and then there's NJIT Associate Professor Joyoung Lee working through painstaking and vital research of how self-driving systems should behave at stop lights. He studies transportation systems as a whole, not self-driving cars specifically, but his...

NJIT Baseball Highlighted by Likely Draft Pick Marcano and MLB's Leiter Jr.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
NJIT Highlander baseball had an exciting spring, with star player Julio Marcano putting his name among the school home run record books, and team alumnus Mark Leiter Jr. making it back to the majors for the Chicago Cubs. Marcano, a second baseman and outfielder, blasted his 23rd career homer M...

Professor Glenn Goldman Exhibit at the Littman Library

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
Professor Glenn Goldman’s exhibition Color and Composition, The (Mostly Architectural) Photography of Glenn Goldman at the Littman Library opened on February 14th. The exhibit features photographs that were mostly taken over the last six years, and have been cited or received awards at various compe...