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Researchers Find Ethical Risks Where Mixed-Reality Gaming Meets AI

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The questio...

Computing Resilience in an Era of Uncertainty

Monday, November 6th, 2023
In an era of frequent, powerful storms, fast-spreading wildfires and global pandemics, communities are discovering their vulnerabilities when they can least afford it. “We need to rethink what it means to be resilient. I use the boxing analogy ‘roll with the punches’: the ability to absorb the shoc...

A Fly Fisherman Diagnoses Maladies on a Beloved River

Friday, November 3rd, 2023
Wading into a parched stretch of the Pequannock River, Taylor VanGrouw got a jarring reminder of the fragility of New Jersey’s smaller waterways: a brown trout stranded in a shallow pool, too lethargic to swim away as he approached. “As temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen levels decline, in the way...

Record Number of Students Go One-on-One with Employers at NJIT's Career Fair

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
A record number of students and alumni attended New Jersey Institute of Technology’s latest Career Fair — 3,300 — with some 240 companies looking to fill more than 1,000 jobs, internships and cooperative education experiences. The macro numbers were impressive — for the third straight fair — but it...

Abdullah Hossain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - November 2023

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Abdullah Hossain, born and raised in New York City, is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering with nearly 20 journal and conference publications. His research interests are diverse including integrated sensing and communications, photonics, radio access, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), optical, ...

Men's and Women's Fencing Posts Strong Outing at Drew Invitational

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
The NJIT men's and women's fencing teams posted a strong outing at the Drew Invitational Sunday. The NJIT men, who opened up its 2023 at the Drew Invitational went a perfect 7-0 on the day while the NJIT women combined for a 5-1 record. The Highlander men victories came against: Rutgers, Lafayette...

NJIT Math Professor Named American Physical Society Fellow

Monday, October 30th, 2023
NJIT Mathematics Professor Linda J. Cummings has been named a Fellow by the American Physical Society (APS) for her “outstanding contributions to physics.” The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made “exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise in physics research, important...

Women's Soccer Clinches America East Tourney Berth With Win At Vermont

Monday, October 23rd, 2023
The NJIT women's soccer team clinched a spot in its third consecutive America East Tournament with a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Vermont Catamounts Sunday afternoon at Virtue Field. The Highlanders (7-5-5, 3-3-1 AE) also secured their first regular season winning record since 2017 (9-8) with its...

NJIT Partners with NJEDA to Offer Certificates in Offshore Wind Work

Monday, October 23rd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a $399,000 project to create two offshore wind graduate certificates.  The funding approved in the MOU will establish two graduate certificates in wind pow...

Engineering Professor Wins NSF Award for Nanoscale Research

Monday, October 23rd, 2023
Structural engineering is defined as the science of extremely large things — battleships, buildings, bridges — but there’s a new group of researchers, led by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Fatemeh Ahmadpoor, working to understand the structural engineering of extremely tiny things. If a sheet...