Cracking the Code on Sustainable and Measurable Climate Action

Monday, March 27th, 2023
Ahead of the curve in bringing the science of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to design and on the heels of the Inflation Reduction Act, Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design (eLCAd2023) once again draws together a diverse group of educators and professionals in concentrated dialogue to explore ...

NJIT Hosts Conference Asking: 'How Can Artificial Intelligence Be a Force for Good?'

Friday, March 24th, 2023
How can we prevent artificial intelligence from exacerbating systemic discrimination and leverage it as a force for good to promote social and environmental justice? Policy experts from organizations such as the Innocence Project, prominent data scientists and others will discuss the profound, but o...

Ying Wu College of Computing Programming Team Holds Their Own at Annual ICPC Competition

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023
Two teams of NJIT Cheetahs and Tigers entered the lion’s den of the leading collegiate programming contest in the world and left with pride for placing in the upper half among some of the top institutions in the New York region at the annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Jaden...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT a Top 50 School to Study Game Design

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology has again earned a spot on The Princeton Review’s top 50 undergraduate schools for game design in the 2023 rankings. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on its 2022 survey of administrators at 150 institutions across the U.S. and abroad offering game desig...

Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
Dear Highlanders, I am very pleased to announce that Dr. John A. Pelesko has accepted the opportunity to become NJIT’s next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. John will assume his new post on August 1, 2023. Until then, Dr. Atam P. Dhawan will continue to serve as NJIT’s interim...

Four Highlanders to Represent NJIT at 2023 National Collegiate Fencing Championship

Monday, March 20th, 2023
Dominika Pawlowska, Justin Petway, Kevin Katayama and Cristian Candescu will represent NJIT at the 2023 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Fencing Championships in Durham, North Carolina and hosted by Duke University from March 23-26, 2023. Twenty-eight member institutions will be represented at...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesko...

Statement from NJIT President Teik C. Lim on the Passing of NJ State Senator Ronald L. Rice

Thursday, March 16th, 2023
I would like to express my most sincere condolences, on behalf of the NJIT community, to the family, loved ones, colleagues and constituents of former New Jersey State Senator Ronald L. Rice, who passed away yesterday. Senator Rice’s legacy is that of service, protecting and lifting others up while ...

NJIT and Israeli Engineers Create Clean Water Tech with Added Industrial Benefit

Thursday, March 16th, 2023
Environmental safety and corporate interests tend not to match, but engineers at NJIT and Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev found a way to filter dangerous nitrate from water while also reducing the energy needed to create industrial ammonia. The research, Electrified Membrane System for C...

NJIT Alum Ogo Enekwizu Brings Soot-seeded Clouds into Brookhaven National Lab

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
Tiny particles in Earth’s atmosphere can have a big impact on climate. But understanding exactly how these aerosol particles form cloud drops and affect the absorption and scattering of sunlight is one of the biggest sources of uncertainty in climate models. Ogochukwu (Ogo) Enekwizu, a postdoctoral ...