NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/3/21-5/7/21

Monday, May 3rd, 2021
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Missing the NJIT Campus? Engineering Student Made One in Minecraft

Monday, May 3rd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new campus, but you can only go there by computer because civil engineering major Pawel Sierhej built it entirely in Minecraft. Sierhej, a junior who commutes from Linden, said he was inspired to build the virtual campus because he missed being at the real on...

NJIT-led Project 'Visualize Organic Chemistry' Gets Global Reaction

Monday, May 3rd, 2021
A new NJIT-led project is making learning about the abstract world of organic chemistry a fresher, interactive experience that students can now easily explore in hi-res action through their digital devices. Already, it’s created quite a reaction among young chemists and their teachers around the wor...

NJIT Completes Series Sweep of UMBC, Highlanders Have Won Five Straight

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
The NJIT baseball team swept a doubleheader from host UMBC for the second-straight day, defeating the Retrievers 7-5 in game one, before winning game two 14-6 to complete the four-game series weep. NJIT (15-19, 14-14 America East) has now won five-straight games for the first time since 2018. UMBC'...

NJIT ACM Chapter Hosts JerseyCTF Cybersecurity Competition

Friday, April 30th, 2021
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first cybersecurity competition last month, with one of its own members on the winning team among more than 600 participants from 26 countries. The event, called JerseyCTF, was a capture-the-flag event where entrants test t...

Celebrating NJIT Scholarships: Student, Alum Thank Donors for Support

Friday, April 30th, 2021
A generous scholarship enabled Charu Arya to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology, and her professors helped solidify her career path. Indeed, both financial assistance and academic support fueled her success. Arya ’21 reflected on that fruitful journey during NJIT’s annual Scholarship Brunch, ...

NJIT Student Earns Top Prize in Statewide Business Pitch Competition

Thursday, April 29th, 2021
A computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned the top prize in a statewide collegiate competition that judges pitches for innovative business ideas. The student, Yashwee Kothari ’22, pitched a mobile application for tracking the symptoms of people recovering from traumati...

NJIT Athletics Hosts 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic June 7

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Register for the 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic NEWARK, NJ--The Department of NJIT Athletics will hold its 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic, presented by ikon.5 architects on Monday, June 7, 2021, at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, N.J. The Highlanders Golf Classic is one of t...

Researchers Creating Drones with Artificial Intelligence to Help Firefighters

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property. Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while human...

NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition Partner with Cities and Airports

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
April 30th, from 8:15am - 4pm NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition are hosting a one-day virtual conference focused on how cities can work together with their airports to optimize economic, societal, and environmental benefits in support of job generation and equitable, inclusive growth. Two k...