Men's Soccer Announces 2025 Slate

Monday, July 21st, 2025
NJIT head coach Fernando Barboto, entering his 10th season at NJIT, announced the Highlanders 2025 slate which features 17 matches, including seven home matches at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. "We have a very tough non-conference schedule that we believe will prepare us for the rigors of th...

David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
Distinguished Professor David Bader in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science has been recognized among an elite roster of High-Performance Computing (HPC) pioneers in the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2025 list. The honorees are selected annually based on contributions to the H...

NJIT Awarded State Grant to Bridge Technology Divide in New Jersey

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded $1 million through the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s (NJDOL) Digital Literacy and Equity Training Grant Program to launch its Building Digital Bridges initiative — a comprehensive program that will provide digita...

Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social insect bonanza that exploded after the extinction of the dinosaurs. Mammals have developed some unusual ...

CME Recipient of Tier-2 IUSE Grant Award

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
Dr. Richard Cimino, Senior University Lecturer, and collaborators at UConn and Pitt have been awarded a $750,000 Tier-2 IUSE grant for Fall 2025 titled Collaborative Research: Using Digital Narratives and Data Analytics to Enhance Ethical Judgment Education and Assessment. This grant builds on and e...

Holden deJong Selected to the Orioles in the 2025 MLB Draft

Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
NJIT left-handed pitcher Holden deJong has been selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 11th round of the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft Monday afternoon. DeJong, drafted by the Orioles in the 11th round, 334th overall, is the highest-drafted Highlander to date. Others from NJIT who played profe...

Women's Soccer Unveils 2025 Schedule

Monday, July 14th, 2025
NJIT women's soccer head coach Ally Nick has announced the team's 2025 schedule, which features 18 regular season matches, including ten contests at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. "Last season didn't go the way we wanted, but that chapter is closed," Nick said. "With new opponents on the sch...

From Building Bridges to Building Intelligence: How Shail Khiyara is Rewiring the Future of AI

Thursday, July 10th, 2025
When alumnus Shail Khiyara talks about agentic AI, he isn’t just introducing another tech trend. He’s making a bold case for a fundamental shift in how humans and machines collaborate to solve problems, make decisions and create lasting value. “For years, we’ve built AI that waits for a prompt,” he ...

Gernot Riether Elected Inaugural Chair of Architecture at NJIT's Hillier College

Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Effective July 1, 2025 for a three-year term, Gernot Riether became the first elected chair of NJIT’s School of Architecture, bringing with him a visionary approach rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration, technological innovation and public engagement. After the inaugural departmental elections f...

NJIT Engineers Reduce Power Consumption in Future Computer Memory

Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Most people haven’t heard of resistive RAM — one of several evolving types of computer memory that could become mainstream someday — but its chances at commercial success improved recently, because of insightful new research from NJIT and commercial partner Tokyo Electron. Resistive memory is in a c...