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Hawk Watch: Livestream Life Inside NJIT's Rare Red-Tailed Hawk Nest

Thursday, March 24th, 2022
NJIT has landed some unexpected residents recently, and they’ll be getting plenty of “airtime” as they settle into their new home. In fact, they’ll have their own channel where you can check them (and their new crib) out, 24/7.  Two red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) have begun a rare urban ...

NJIT's Second Elementary STEM Challenge Conquered by 30 Local Schools

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022
Wise Wolves, a team of fifth-graders from Morristown's Unity Charter School, won this year's Elementary STEM Challenge at an awards ceremony in the Campus Center ballroom on Monday. The event provides scientific and technical opportunities to students including girls, minorities, and underserved co...

Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25th, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's first African-American student, ar...

NJIT Reaffirmed As An Elite Research University, Retains R1 Classification

Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification. First published in 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institution...

Management Alum's Startup App Offers New Approach to Make Friends and Date

Friday, January 28th, 2022
Business school alumnus Tomi Antoljak wants to do for online relationships what NBC's The Voice did for singing competitions. People using his new mobile app, Hangoo, talk first — and then only get to see each other if there's a match. "My belief really is that voice is the more authentic way to c...

NSF Hub, With NJIT as Member, Now Taking Applications to Commercialize Research

Monday, January 10th, 2022
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges ...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Names Dr. Teik C. Lim as University's Ninth President

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Pr...

Computing Student Applied Neural Networks to Sound Waves as AMD Intern

Monday, December 20th, 2021
Bhargav Samineni loves applied math, and there are few better ways to see math in action than working on scientific computing problems with a mentor from a chip company like AMD. Samineni interned last summer at the University of California/Los Angeles - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, ...

Surprise Finding: Zebrafish Break Out Into 'Panic Wave' Mosh Pits to Social Distance

Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Social distancing is nothing new in the time of COVID. But new research of the well-studied zebrafish (Danio rerio) has captured a previously undocumented behavior of the animal that takes such measures to the extreme — and the end result resembles the frenzy of a circle pit typically asso...

Samuel Carlos Wins Boren Scholarship Award to Study in Taiwan

Friday, December 3rd, 2021
The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer scien...