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An Alarm Clock that Hides From You is Highlight of MakeNJIT Competition

Monday, April 28th, 2025
A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon. The clockmakers earned third place overall among 47 teams from several universities. Members of Tea...

Acewin Tam's Architectural Vision: Bridging Design, Community and Social Change

Monday, April 28th, 2025
As Acewin Tam prepares to cross the graduation stage at NJIT, she reflects not just on the culmination of five years of rigorous study, but on a deeply personal journey of growth, discovery and purpose. An architecture student whose work straddles the line between the technical and the poetic, Tam h...

Ballen Earns Medalist Honors at Penn Relays to Highlight the Weekend

Saturday, April 26th, 2025
Jason Ballen earned medalist honors at the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, finishing fifth in the javelin with a throw of 59.24m. It marks the second straight season with a Penn Relays medalist for the Highlanders. NJIT also competed at the TCNJ Lions Invitational. The Highlanders re...

Two Disciplines, One Vision: Imani Ihmaid's Story at NJIT

Friday, April 25th, 2025
Imani Ihmaid’s journey as an interior design student at NJIT is rooted in a passion for design that began in high school. After taking a drafting class and completing an internship with RH Interiors, the Paterson, New Jersey native discovered a love for interior design that solidified her decision t...

NJIT Undergrad Awarded for Research into Nanoplastics' Impact on Placental Health

Friday, April 25th, 2025
The average person is estimated to consume up to a credit card's worth of plastic particles each week. However, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) undergrad Allison Harbolic is now uncovering the effects that our regular intake of nano-sized plastics can have at a critical stage of life — dur...

Access Meets Impact at NJIT, Recognized by Carnegie Classifications

Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s most distinguishing qualities — its focus on technology and commitment to access — have been recognized by Carnegie Classification. NJIT is among a small and elite group of universities nationally to receive this combination of prestigious distinctions. I...

NJIT Alumnus Jordan Hu Named Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Jordan Hu ’89, CEO of RiskVal Financial Solutions, and a distinguished alumnus of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been named a finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year New Jersey award. Now in its 40th year, the award celebrates entrepreneurs who are sha...

CME Researcher Awarded NJ ACTS Grant to Advance In Vivo Testing of Biomaterial Implants

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Dr. Roman Voronov, associate professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at NJIT, has received a $50,000 research grant from the Tri-Institutional Clinical and Translational Research Pilot Program. The funded project, “Sterilization and In Vivo Testing of an Addressable Microfluidics Device for ...

Family Sparks NJIT Scholar's Research into Biomedical Engineering

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Seeing her father struggle through rehabilitation exercises after a stroke made Marina Samuel '25 think, why can’t therapy be more personalized, effective and efficient for the patient? So, with a central focus on patients, she pursued a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute ...

JerseyCTF 2025 Was (A Lot) More Than Fun and Games

Monday, April 21st, 2025
The NJIT JerseyCTF competition is now in its fifth year and has continued to draw competitors on-campus and around the world in a quest to hack their way through a series of information security style puzzles to “capture the flag” and win an impressive array of prizes — along with bragging rights as...