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Smoke- and Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative

Friday, September 13th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,  We are pleased to announce the launch of the NJIT Smoke- and Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative. Over the next year, we will work together to make our campus completely smoke and tobacco-free by September 1, 2025. Our policy will prohibit all forms of smoking and tobac...

The New Neighbor to NJIT's Food Pantry? A Career Closet

Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Responding to a student need, New Jersey Institute of Technology has opened a Career Closet that supplies free dress clothes, shoes and accessories for interviews, internships or jobs. The closet, on the fourth floor of the Campus Center, also offers seasonal and casual clothes for campus residents...

NJIT Ranks in Top 100 Globally for 3 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has achieved global recognition for its commitment to sustainability, ranking in the top 100 for three key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Times Higher Education 2024 Impact Rankings. Additionally, NJIT secured a spot in the top 200 overall for u...

Pan Xu Has Two Papers Accepted to Highly Competitive ICML Conference in Vienna, Austria

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024
Assistant Professor Pan Xu in the Department of Computer Science has been honored with having two of his papers selected by the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of three primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The co- authored paper...

Several YWCC Researchers Contribute to KDD 2024

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
Distinguished Professor Guiling (Grace) Wang in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) recently co-organized a special event, Finance Day, under the theme of “Finance” as part of KDD 2024 held in Barcelona Spain with her collaborator, Daniel Barraio, AI research director at JP Morgan Chase. Profess...

Four Different Highlanders Score in Home Shutout Over Saint Peter's

Monday, September 9th, 2024
Four different Highlanders scored in NJIT's 4-0 home shutout over visiting Saint Peter's Saturday evening in non-conference men's soccer action at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. NJIT moved back into the win column, improving to 2-0-1 overall and 1-0-1 at home while Saint Peter's, still in sea...

Women's Volleyball Hold Off Pioneers in Five Set Battle

Monday, September 9th, 2024
The NJIT women's volleyball team showed tremendous resolve in the finale of the Seton Hall Classic, outlasting Sacred Heart in five sets on Sunday afternoon. The two teams alternated set victories, with NJIT prevailing in the match, 25-19, 20-25, 25-21, 29-27, 15-13. In the opening set, two scoring...

Prof. Ecevit Bilgili Appointed Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Pharmaceutical and BioTech

Monday, September 9th, 2024
Professor Ecevit Bilgili of the Otto H. York Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, has been appointed as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry (Open Access MDPI journal). The official announcement and a short Q&A with Prof. Bilgili, who sh...

NJIT Celebrates Enrollment Milestone After Revamped Convocation Ceremony

Friday, September 6th, 2024
The 2024 academic year kicked off with a Convocation that had a different spin. With the participation of DJ Ricky Bonds, NJIT’s Jazz Band ‘Elementals,’ Highland Dancers and bagpipers and even a special edition of Family Feud NJIT-style, the university’s incoming class received an upbeat welcome. T...

With NSF Grant, NJIT Engineers Gaze in Robotic Eyes, Envision Microchips There

Friday, September 6th, 2024
Machine vision sensors could work faster and more efficiently if they were designed like biological eyes, according to Associate Professor Dong-Kyun Ko, at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Ko is principal investigator on a $467,000 National Scienc...