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Data Science Meets Ironbound Street Shrines in NJIT Undergrad Summer Research

Monday, September 11th, 2023
Computer science and religion are rarely thought of together as connected research areas, but it’s going well for NJIT student Fernando Mantilla, who is performing a geospatial analysis of more than 200 street shrines in Newark’s historic Ironbound neighborhood. The shrines are tributes to importan...

NJIT Professor Advances to Finals of $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, September 11th, 2023
NJIT biology professor Eric Fortune and a team of scientists, known as “Team Waponi”, have reached the final stage of the five-year, $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition. In June, Fortune and 13 other team members traveled to the rainforests of Singapore to compete in the semi-finals of the global co...

Washington Monthly Ranking Reflects NJIT Values of Social Mobility, Service

Monday, September 11th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no. 88 among national universities in a ranking based on overall value, service and social mobility, as determined by the non-profit Washington Monthly magazine. The publication’s editors emphasized that such categories are important alternatives ...

Cross Country Opens 2023 At Fordham Fiasco

Saturday, September 9th, 2023
The NJIT cross country teams opened their 2023 campaign in the Bronx as participants in the annual Fordham University Fiasco Saturday afternoon at Van Cortlandt Park. MEN'S RESULTS (8K) The top performing Highlander on the men's side was sophomore Austin Essel, who just missed out on the to...

Women's Volleyball Defeats Holy Cross For Third Straight Win

Saturday, September 9th, 2023
The NJIT women's volleyball team won its third-straight match, defeating host Holy Cross in non-conference action in straight sets on Saturday. With the win, NJIT improved to 5-4 on the season, while Holy Cross' record now stands at 3-6. The Highlanders won the first two sets 25-17 and 25-16, resp...

Aspiring STEM Students Get Immersive Experience Through NJIT-Stryker Career Day

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility. Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation within...

As Classes Begin, Meet 10 Highlanders Energizing Campus

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increas...

Wall Street Journal/College Pulse Ranks NJIT No. 2 Public University in the US

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton Universi...

NJIT Professor Omowunmi Sadik Named 2023 American Chemical Society Fellow

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
NJIT Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Omowunmi Sadik has earned the exclusive distinction of being named Fellow by one of the largest scientific organizations globally, the American Chemical Society (ACS). Sadik's “outstanding contributions to science, the profession, and ACS” over her 30-year ...

NJIT Sets New Enrollment, Diversity Records With Incoming Class

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is kicking off the 2023 academic year by welcoming a new class that sets enrollment and diversity records. Total projected enrollment is up 24% since 2013, reaching a new high of 12,600 students. The fall first-year cohort plays a substantial role in this ex...