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¡Celebración! NJIT Kicks Off Hispanic Heritage Month with Reason to Celebrate

Friday, September 27th, 2024
The first week of national Hispanic Heritage Month was bursting with excitement at NJIT, as the university held three distinct events to mark the beginning of a monthlong celebration. The start of the celebration featured a lively party commemorating its Hispanic Serving Institution designation, the...

NJIT Celebrates Innovation and Excellence at 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards

Friday, September 27th, 2024
A cornerstone of NJIT's annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at NJIT. The 2024 awardees include pioneers in green technology, public health, architecture and entrepreneurshi...

NJIT PhD Researcher Develops Secure Code Generation System, Achieves Early Conference Acceptance

Friday, September 27th, 2024
Research from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) addresses a critical issue in AI-powered code generation: the prevalence of security vulnerabilities. Ph.D. student Khiem Ton and his colleagues have developed SGCode, a system that combines advanced AI techniques with security analysis tools t...

Ying Wu College of Computing and Ben-Gurion University Partnership Presents at VLDB in China

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
Professor Baruch Schieber and Associate Professor Senjuti Basu Roy from the Ying Wu College of Computing and Assistant Professor Nimrod Talmon from Ben-Gurion University presented a tutorial at the 50th International conference on Very Large databases (VLDB 2024), a flagship data management conferen...

Honoring Community and Culture: Celebrating NJIT's Hispanic/Latino Employee Resource Group

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
NJIT has established employee resource groups (ERGs) that meet regularly and encourage faculty and staff to connect outside of their direct working relationships. This month, NJIT is celebrating its Hispanic/Latino ERG by profiling two of its members: Jorge E. Fresneda-Fernandez and William “Willie”...

New Semester, New Opportunities for First-Year Newark Natives at NJIT

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Back-to-school buzz has returned to campus, and with it has come the latest wave of promising first-year students hailing from NJIT’s home city of Newark. A growing number of these Newark natives are poised for success in their first semester thanks to several initiatives launched in recent years, ...

NJIT Names Matthew Bonasia Chief of State Government Affairs

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced a restructuring of its government and community relations operations as well as the hiring of Matthew J. Bonasia as Chief of State Government Affairs. Aligning with NJIT’s 2030 strategic plan, which includes government and community engagement ...

NJIT Ranks No. 84, Continues Rise in US News and World Report National Rankings

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list. The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajecto...

New Jersey Innovation Institute Launches AI Lab and Multi-Pronged AI Strategy

Monday, September 23rd, 2024
New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) announced today the NJII AI Lab, focused on solving the adoption challenges for today’s business leader. This program supports the assessment, identification, design and implementation of AI solutions to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. The ...

Meet the NJIT Class of 2028: Student Athletes from Sweden, Portugal and Minnesota

Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Student athletes are coming from across the U.S. and around the world to study and compete at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at three new Highlanders from the Class of 2028 who play basketball, soccer and volleyball. Welcome to University Heights! Piper Engelby Andover, M...