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Roubalio Earns Bid to the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championships

Friday, March 14th, 2025
Niels Roubailo has earned a bid to the 2025 NCAA Fencing Championships announced by the organization on Tuesday. His selection was an at-large bid after finishing ninth out of 47 fencers in the men's epee competition at the 2025 NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional on March 8. Official NCAA Relea...

SIGCHI Design Jam Showcases the Fruits of Mixing Computing with Creativity

Friday, March 14th, 2025
The annual SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) Design Jam happened during an inspired nine-hour designathon beginning on Saturday, March 8 at 9 a.m. and finishing at 1 p.m. the following day. The event invites students studying human-computer interaction, digital design, we...

Experts from NJIT, Carnegie Mellon Find the Pen is Mightier than the Data

Friday, March 14th, 2025
Plenty of researchers already study how to tell if online writing bears the traits of artificial intelligence — but Michael Laudenbach, in the humanities and social sciences department at NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, is studying what traits indicate that digital prose was cr...

Gender's Role in Climate Change, AI Highlighted at NJIT Women's Tech Conference

Thursday, March 13th, 2025
A keynote speaker at NJIT’s Women Designing the Future conference explained the imperative for holistic approaches to climate change policy, while another shared her tale of breaking through glass ceilings to develop innovative artificial intelligence software. The speakers — Rhiana Gunn-Wright, wh...

NJIT's First-Year Engineers 'Dive' into Design, Shaping the Future at Annual Showcase

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
The spirit of innovation and hands-on learning was in full force at the Newark College of Engineering's (NCE) annual First-Year Engineering Design Showcase, a highlight of National Engineers Week. This popular event, a testament to NJIT's commitment to early-stage practical engineering experience, s...

Zhihao 'Zephyr' Yao Recognized Among IEEE Top 30 Early Career Professionals

Monday, March 10th, 2025
Assistant Professor Zhihao "Zephyr" Yao of the Department of Computer Science at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing has been named among IEEE Computing’s Top Early Career Professionals. This prestigious recognition is awarded to individuals worldwide who have demonstrated exceptional earl...

Nine Track and Field Athletes Earned All-East Honors at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships

Monday, March 10th, 2025
The NJIT track and field teams earned All-East honors in nine events at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships this weekend at Boston University Track and Tennis Center. Nine medalists is the most at an IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships in program history. The top eight finishers in each event earned meda...

Amir Ziaeddini - ECE PhD Student of the Month - March 2025

Friday, March 7th, 2025
Amir Ziaeddini is currently a Ph.D. student at NJIT, advised by Professor Joerg Kliewer, focusing on privacy-preserving techniques in decentralized federated learning networks. His research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Before that, from 2012 to ...

CBS Highlights NJIT Public Safety's Groundbreaking All-Women 48-Hour Shift

Friday, March 7th, 2025
The weight of the badge is the same, but the story behind it is profoundly different. NJIT’s Department of Public Safety is taking progress to a new high-water mark when the March 24-25 shift will be staffed completely by its women. Featured on CBS New York, this dedicated team is demonstrating that...

NJIT Mathematician to Help Map Earth's Last Frontier with Navy Grant

Thursday, March 6th, 2025
We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT Mathematics Professor Eliza Michalopoulou’s latest research, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Th...