News

Center for Pre-College Programs

NJIT Educational Opportunity Program Conference Brings Students, Alumni and Industry Together

Monday, April 4th, 2022
NJIT’s Education Opportunity Program (EOP) recently hosted a marquee conference with over 100 attendees that brought together students, alumni and industry leaders. The conference featured speakers, panel discussions and Q&As regarding challenges and opportunities in the modern workplace and way...

Highlanders Split Doubleheader to Clinch Third-Straight America East Series

Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
The NJIT baseball team split a doubleheader with UMass Lowell on Saturday, dropping game one 12-1, before coming back to win game two 7-5 to clinch the three-game America East series at Jim Hynes Stadium. The Highlanders (12-11) have now won all three America East series this season and sit tied fo...

Two in a Row, NJIT Dominant in 3-0 Home Sweep vs. Harvard

Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
The NJIT men's volleyball team won its second straight 3-0 EIVA Conference men's volleyball sweep Saturday afternoon, defeating visiting Harvard inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. With the win, NJIT moves to 13-8 overall, 8-4 in the EIVA. The 13 wins for NJIT matches last seasons win-out whi...

Revitalized Data Science Club Eyes Insightful Statistics for NJIT Athletics

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Sports provide an everyman's opportunity to explain statistical analysis, and the rejuvenated NJIT Data Science Club is all-in. The club already has more than a dozen members and is led by action-hungry graduate students Jake Byford and Parth Patel, president and vice president respectively, who bot...

Keurig Founding Engineer, Class of '82, Meets Honors College Students

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
Dick Sweeney, the Highlander alumnus and engineer who made Keurig coffee machines feasible, visited NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College last week for his first meet-and-greet with students since the COVID pandemic. Sweeney graduated with an industrial management degree in 1982 after several years of...

NJIT Ranked Top 100 Engineering Grad School by US News & World Report

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years ...

Interim Provost Announcement

Monday, March 28th, 2022
Dear Highlanders, I am very pleased to share the news that NJIT Senior Vice Provost for Research Atam Dhawan has been selected as the university’s Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President beginning July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023, or until such time as a Provost is appointed. In additi...

Two NJIT Undergraduate Researchers Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

Monday, March 28th, 2022
From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Simone Bishara and Vishva Rana, both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarshi...

NJIT Completes Three-Game Series Sweep of UAlbany with Wild 12-10 Victory on Saturday

Monday, March 28th, 2022
The NJIT baseball team trailed 5-0 early and 10-9 late against UAlbany on Saturday, but the Highlanders came from behind and eventually earned a 12-10 victory to complete the three-game America East Conference series sweep of the Great Danes. NJIT has now won four straight and seven of its last eig...

Engineering Professor Helps Invent New Methods of Data Management

Friday, March 25th, 2022
Reflect for a moment on how you'd manage your terabyte-scale hard drive if the data were literally one million times bigger. Then you'd be working with exabytes, which is the reality for supercomputer users at federal laboratories across the country, one of which is relying on Assistant Professor Qi...