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Corry's Game-Winner Puts Lacrosse Past Manhattan, NJIT Stays Unbeaten

Saturday, February 24th, 2024
The Highlanders just keep finding a way to win. A late goal by Owen Corry with 51 seconds left proved to be the difference as the NJIT men's lacrosse team – playing its third game in seven days – improved to 5-0 with an 11-10 victory over the Manhattan Jaspers Saturday afternoon at Lubetkin Field a...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fal...

NJIT Marketing Experts Measure Brain Waves and Skin Current to Predict Emotions

Friday, February 23rd, 2024
Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda. Fresneda started his career as a chemist and then became an expert in neuroanalytics. He studies how measurements of brain activity ...

4 NJIT Highlanders Make NJBIZ's Power 100 List for 2024

Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
Four NJIT Highlanders are featured in NJBIZ’s Power 100 list for 2024, including President Teik C. Lim. The others are Luis De La Hoz, who serves on NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council, and two members of the Board of Directors of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute: Debbie Hart and Michel...

Men's Lacrosse Moves To 4-0 With Thrilling OT Win Over Monmouth

Wednesday, February 21st, 2024
There seems to be something special brewing in Newark. In a meeting of in-state rivals, the NJIT men's lacrosse team rallied from four goals down in the third quarter and three down in the fourth to beat the Monmouth Hawks, 14-13, in overtime Wednesday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium....

Economics of Recycling: New Futures for Old Plastics

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” the protagonist is advised by a family friend to pursue a career with a great future: “plastics.” Decades later, as waste from the now ubiquitous material fills landfills, leaches microparticles and clutters oceans, a growing number of students and professors are foc...

Women's Tennis Stays Hot, Beats Hofstra For Fifth Straight

Sunday, February 18th, 2024
The NJIT women's tennis team extended its winning streak to five matches with a 6-1 victory over the Hofstra Pride Sunday evening at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. "The ladies played well against another tough opponent in Hofstra today. We had two out of three three-set matc...

Men's Lacrosse Remains Undefeated After 11-7 Win At Mount St. Mary's

Sunday, February 18th, 2024
The historic start continues. The NJIT men's lacrosse team improved to 3-0 for the first time in program history with a 11-7 victory over the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers Sunday afternoon at the Waldron Family Stadium. HIGHLANDER LEADERS Jesse Roth recorded his second hat trick in as many game...

Senior Leadership Searches

Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,   I am writing to you today to announce two senior leadership searches. These include the search for the Vice President for Human Resources, a position Joe Wilson has been filling in an interim capacity, as well as the General Counsel and Vice President of Legal Affairs, for whic...

NJIT Professor David Rothenberg Presents New Book 'The Secret Sounds of Ponds'

Wednesday, February 14th, 2024
David Rothenberg, distinguished professor of philosophy and music at New Jersey Institute of Technology, presented his new book “The Secret Sounds of Ponds”, a book, music and performance initiative.  Rothenberg started this project during the pandemic. When everybody was home, he decided to visit ...