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NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Dedicated to Joel and Diane Bloom

Tuesday, October 10, 2023
NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center (WEC) has been dedicated with a new name — the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center — for outstanding contributions made by the university’s eighth president and former first lady that span more than...

Lemelson-MIT Recognizes NJIT Overseer for Being a Pioneer in Picture and Video Messaging

Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Daniel Henderson finds himself in great company.Henderson, a pioneer in wireless picture and video messaging in cell phones, is now featured on Lemelson-MIT’s online wall of inventors, which includes the likes of Steve Jobs, Thomas...

Annual NJIT GirlHacks Competition Goes into Space, and Beyond

Monday, October 2, 2023
LunaTech, a web application where players can learn about space from a cartoon cat and send their professors into orbit, won first place in GirlHacks 2023 at New Jersey Institute of...

How an NJIT Forensic Team Helped Exonerate Two Men Wrongfully Imprisoned for Murder

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
A New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic team’s crime scene reconstruction of a 1994 shooting in Queens, N.Y. has helped clear the names of two wrongfully convicted men who spent a combined 37 years in prison for murder.

NJIT Launches Council to Hear from Students

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
In an effort for students to share their insights and drive positive change within the NJIT community, Provost and Senior Vice president for Academic Affairs John Pelesko, and Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Marybeth Boger...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023.

Washington Monthly Ranking Reflects NJIT Values of Social Mobility, Service

Monday, September 11, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no.

Data Science Meets Ironbound Street Shrines in NJIT Undergrad Summer Research

Monday, September 11, 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...

As Classes Begin, Meet 10 Highlanders Energizing Campus

Thursday, September 7, 2023
NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance.

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

Wednesday, September 6, 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.