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NJIT Hits Season Best Five-Game Winning Streak Over FGCU

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The NJIT Highlanders (18-5, 6-2 ASUN) defeated Florida Gulf Coast (8-15, 3-5 ASUN) at the Wellness and Events Center on Wednesday, 66-54. The win extended NJIT's winning streak to a season-best five as the Highlanders snatched their first win over the reigning ASUN regular season champions since 20...

Biosensor Co-Inventor Bharath Nunna Ph.D. '18 Joins Organ-on-a-Chip Research Team at Harvard Med

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device that identifies the tiniest signals these biomarkers em...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top "Schools With Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition Investment"

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2019 edition of...

Highlanders Rally in Thrilling Overtime Victory Over North Alabama

Monday, January 28th, 2019
The NJIT Highlanders (17-5, 5-2 ASUN) completed a comeback win in overtime to defeat North Alabama (8-15, 5-3 ASUN) at the Wellness and Events Center on Sunday, 76-70. WATCH: North Alabama vs. NJIT Highlights Donovan Greer's game-tying three pointer with five seconds left sent the game into overti...

Women's Tennis Defeats Sacred Heart, 6-1, to Remain Unbeaten

Monday, January 28th, 2019
NJIT Women's Tennis improved to 2-0 in the spring season with a 6-1 road victory over the Sacred Heart Pioneers Sunday afternoon on the campus of Yale University. The Highlanders followed up their dominant victory of Wagner College from Friday by taking all but one singles matchup against the Pione...

Meet David Fisher: NJIT's First Professor of Practice in Forensic Science

Monday, January 28th, 2019
This month, NJIT’s forensic science program welcomed David Fisher — an expert criminalist previously with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) — to its faculty ranks. The announcement sees Fisher appointed as the university’s first-ever “Professor of Practice in Forensic Science”...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Match Candidates to Jobs

Friday, January 25th, 2019
Milad Mirghahari came up with his idea the way many entrepreneurs do, by trying to solve a real-world problem he faced daily. The difference in Mirghahari’s case is he was only 15 years old. Mirghahari’s family operated two Subway franchises and in his words — they were failing. The main prob...

NJIT-Led Microgrid Resiliency Initiative Wins "Beyond Green" Award

Friday, January 25th, 2019
The Community Microgrids Planning Academy — an online educational platform created by the Center for Resilient Design at NJIT — has received an Award of Merit for “Innovations for High-Performance Buildings and Communities” at the National Institute of Building Sciences’ 2018 Beyond Green Awards thi...

Science Olympiad Steps Up STEM for Hundreds of Pre-College Students

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
Check out these numbers: Nearly 700 middle and high school students on 44 student teams from throughout New Jersey competed in 25 hands-on events at the 13th Annual Science Olympiad at NJIT. The event, held Jan. 8 and hosted once again by the university’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP), chal...

Men's Volleyball Wins Third Straight, Sweeps Rutgers-Newark

Monday, January 21st, 2019
Junior opposite Piotr Namiotko paced NJIT with a match-best 11 kills in the Highlanders 3-0 (25-21, 25-13, 25-13) straight set sweep over Rutgers-Newark at the Golden Dome Classic Saturday afternoon. NJIT, winners of its last three matches, improves to 3-4 on the season while the Scarlet Raiders mo...