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Men's Tennis Rolls Past Fordham for Fifth Straight Sweep

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
The NJIT men's tennis team picked up its fifth straight win to open the season with a 7-0 victory over Fordham on Sunday afternoon. The Highlanders have won each of their five matches this season by 7-0 finals. NJIT captured wins in all three doubles matches, with Soma Fukuhara and Severin Risan fa...

Ahmad ALBarqawi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2025

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Ahmad ALBarqawi is a Ph.D. student specializing in machine learning and security, with a primary focus on deepfakes. His research aims to develop robust detection models that can withstand adversarial attacks and generalize effectively across different generative models. Deepfake technology has adva...

Estudiante de fintech establece la sección de NJIT de asociación nacional de profesionales latinos

Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Durante su niñez en Union City, Shanell Encalada ’26 hablaba español en casa con sus padres, ayudándolos a traducir documentos importantes. Ella destaca que su bilingüismo ha mejorado su currículum y le ha permitido hacer amistades en los diversos trabajos que ha tenido. Encalada, estudiante de tecn...

Fintech Major Leads NJIT Chapter Founding of National Latino Professional Association

Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Growing up in Union City, Shanell Encalada ’26 spoke Spanish at home with her parents, helping them out by translating important documents. She points out that her bilingualism has enhanced her resume and allowed her to gain friendships in the various jobs she’s had. Encalada, a fintech major at the...

NJIT Engineer Tara Alvarez Wins First Place in an International Patent Competition

Friday, January 31st, 2025
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, won first place in the inaugural Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) / National Academy of Inventors (NAI) International Patent Award competition. Her patented technology, branded as VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vision ...

Most Facebook News Links Are Unread by Users Sharing Them, Study Finds

Thursday, January 30th, 2025
What are the odds Facebook users read the news articles they end up sharing with the rest of the world? Only one in four, according to a recent study of our news sharing behavior spanning almost a full U.S. election cycle, which was published in Nature Human Behaviour. The study, which applied adv...

3D Wound Tracking System Wins Best Innovation Award at Health Care Technology Conference

Thursday, January 30th, 2025
A new 360-degree perspective on wound care has already attracted attention from the health care industry, and Assistant Professor Salam Daher and Dahlia Musa Ph.D. ’25 from NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing have a goal to further develop a 3D graphics simulation tool to patent it for commercial us...

New Faculty at Hillier College

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Hannah Berkin-Harper, Industrial Design Hannah Berkin-Harper is an Industrial Designer specializing in public spaces and community-engaged design. She comes to NJIT from Pratt Institute where she taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in the Industrial and Interior Design departments. She ...

MBA Student Shines in Banking Simulation Event, Securing Top Honors

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Kaya Can Kaya, a final-year MBA student at NJIT with a concentration in finance, recently achieved success in the AmplifyME Investment Banking Simulation, earning first place out of 107 participants. Kaya also ranked second in the AmplifyME Banking Accelerator Simulation Experience, which included a...

Three NJIT Students Win Gilman Scholarships to Study Internationally

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Three NJIT undergraduates — two from the Hillier College of Architecture and Design and one from the Ying Wu College of Computing — won the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad.  Architecture majors Nataly Mendez ’27 and Tyler Hebert ’26 will participate in HCAD’s Kunstmeile...