NJII's Kathy Naasz and Gov. Murphy Talk Innovation During East Asia Economic Mission

Monday, November 20th, 2023
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, New Jersey Innovation Insitute’s Kathy Naasz and startup founder Po Chen sat down with a popular Taiwan-based podcast to talk innovation and global entrepreneurship in New Jersey during the recent East Asia economic mission trip. The delegation included business and ...

Women's Basketball Off to a Hot Start: Balanced Scoring Leads NJIT Past Wagner

Saturday, November 18th, 2023
For the second straight game, NJIT had four players reach double-figures as the Highlanders cruised to an 80-36 home victory over visiting Wagner in women's basketball non-conference action Saturday afternoon inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT, off to a hot start in 2023, picked up its s...

NJIT Honors Notable Individuals in Annual Fundraising Event

Thursday, November 16th, 2023
Celebration, NJIT’s annual fundraiser for campuswide scholarship funds, was a huge success and raised more than $370,000 this year. Celebration is NJIT’s single-largest fundraising event. Since it was established in 1995, this black-tie gala has raised more than $8 million in scholarship funds. NJIT...

For 3rd Straight Year, NJIT Earns 'Green College' Distinction

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
For the third straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has made The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges. Just 522 colleges and universities are featured in the 2024 edition. To qualify, each school had to earn a “green rating” of at least 80 on a scale of 60 to 99. NJIT’s rating was ...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pas...

NJIT Scientists Uncover Aurora-Like Radio Emission Above a Sunspot

Monday, November 13th, 2023
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have detailed radio observations of an extraordinary aurora-like display — occurring 40,000 km above a relatively dark and cold patch on the Sun, known as...

Veterans Day

Saturday, November 11th, 2023
Dear Highlanders and Friends, Today we celebrate Veterans Day, and I wish to thank the NJIT community members who are veterans of, or currently serve in, the U.S. Armed Forces for their service to our nation and their sacrifices. Thousands of our graduates and hundreds of our students, as well a...

Men's Swimming and Diving Dominates At VMI Quad Meet

Saturday, November 11th, 2023
The NJIT men's swimming and diving team went a perfect 3-0 in its road quad meet Saturday evening, defeating Virginia Military Institute (177-122), UMBC (208-89) and Howard (203-95) at the VMI Aquatics Center. The performance was one of the best in NJIT program history, as the Highlanders set recor...

Hot Topics of Generative AI are the Focus of 2023 Data Science Summit

Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large langua...

NJIT Top 50 Nationally in Undergrad, Grad Entrepreneur Studies

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked in the top 50 nationwide for both graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship education, according to a joint survey from Princeton Review and Entrepreneur. Surveyors ranked NJIT No. 31 in the graduate category, as the only New Jersey institution on t...