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Salam Daher Wins Tech Innovator Award for Healthcare Simulation

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Salam Daher, assistant professor of informatics, this week received the Society for Simulation in Healthcare's Technology Innovator of the Year award in recognition of four projects addressing patient simulation. Daher joined NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing in 2019 to continue her research at t...

Bevan, Ban Sweep America East Swimming Honors For NJIT

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
NJIT Men's Swimming and Diving swept this week's America East weekly awards, with junior Matthew Bevan earning Male Swimmer of the Week honors and sophomore Aiden Ban claiming Male Diver of the Week. Bevan and Ban helped the Highlanders win their first meet of 2022, defeating in...

NJIT Alum's Startup Earns National Acclaim for Li-Ion Battery Recycling Technology

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
For all the convenience of our electronic devices, one inconvenient truth is that waste from our discarded tech is piling up — global e-waste could reach a whopping 74 million metric tons in 2030. NJIT alum Chao Yan’s new greentech startup, Princeton NuEnergy, is receiving national acclaim for their...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Monday, January 17th, 2022
NJIT Community Members,   Today, we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday that honors the Reverend Dr. King for his immense contributions to the advancement of civil rights and equality in our country. This is a day when each of us should take time to reflect upon our h...

NJIT's National Academy of Inventors Chapter Forges Alliances to Tackle Grand Challenges

Monday, January 17th, 2022
Success in slowing global warming will depend on a web of motivated and productive partnerships among distinct groups: scientists modeling changes and devising the means to curb them, nimble enterprises and a workforce able to translate inventions into tools, informed policymakers and, perhaps most ...

VentureLink Applications Open Through March 1 for Newark Minority Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Applications are now open for local business leaders of color to join NJIT's Paul Profeta Entrepreneur-in-Residence program. The program, operated by NJIT’s VentureLink incubator, initially functions as a matchmaking service between the vast collection of NJIT-developed intellectual property and Ne...

Statewide, University HQ Ranks NJIT No. 1 in MBAs and No. 3 in Bachelor's and Master's

Tuesday, January 11th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is among the best universities in New Jersey to earn a bachelor’s or master’s degree – particularly an MBA – according to University HQ. Statewide, NJIT has the best MBA program and is No. 3 for both bachelor's and master's, University HQ found. NJIT off...

Computing Student Logan Reyes Answers the Call Where Help is Needed

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Logan Reyes was named by his parents after James “Logan” Howlett, otherwise known by his codename Wolverine. Perhaps Marvel’s superhero is an apt comparison for a young man who states that he “wakes up every day striving to make an impact.”  People may not recognize him behind today’s civilian...

Miles Coleman Honored by America East for Second-Straight Week

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Miles Coleman, a senior on the NJIT men's basketball team, was named America East Conference Player of the Week, it was announced on Monday. Coleman earned the honor for the second-straight week after he helped lead the Highlanders to a pair of America East road wins at UMass Lowell and Binghamton....

NSF Hub, With NJIT as Member, Now Taking Applications to Commercialize Research

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges ...