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For 3rd Straight Year, NJIT Earns 'Green College' Distinction

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
For the third straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has made The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges. Just 522 colleges and universities are featured in the 2024 edition. To qualify, each school had to earn a “green rating” of at least 80 on a scale of 60 to 99. NJIT’s rating was...

HackNJIT Matches Pre-Pandemic Participation, Map-Hunting Game Impresses Judges

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Nautical nonsense is something they wished, and it was granted at this year’s edition of HackNJIT, where almost 400 students from New Jersey Institute of Technology and many other schools completed 63 ocean-themed projects. A game called Treasure Snap — built by Peter Akdemir, Dustin La, Gabriel Pa...

NJIT Scientists Uncover Aurora-Like Radio Emission Above a Sunspot

Monday, November 13th, 2023
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have detailed radio observations of an extraordinary aurora-like display — occurring 40,000 km above a relatively dark and cold patch on the Sun, kno...

Veterans Day

Saturday, November 11th, 2023
Dear Highlanders and Friends,   Today we celebrate Veterans Day, and I wish to thank the NJIT community members who are veterans of, or currently serve in, the U.S. Armed Forces for their service to our nation and their sacrifices. Thousands of our graduates and hundreds of our st...

Men's Swimming and Diving Dominates At VMI Quad Meet

Saturday, November 11th, 2023
The NJIT men's swimming and diving team went a perfect 3-0 in its road quad meet Saturday evening, defeating Virginia Military Institute (177-122), UMBC (208-89) and Howard (203-95) at the VMI Aquatics Center. The performance was one of the best in NJIT program history, as the Highlanders set recor...

Hot Topics of Generative AI are the Focus of 2023 Data Science Summit

Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Artificial intelligence experts from ADP, Amazon and Maersk highlighted this year’s NJIT Data Science Summit, hosted by the university’s Institute for Data Science. The summit began in 2022 with Google and IBM presenting about hardware and ethics. This year’s focus was on generative AI, large langu...

NJIT Top 50 Nationally in Undergrad, Grad Entrepreneur Studies

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked in the top 50 nationwide for both graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship education, according to a joint survey from Princeton Review and Entrepreneur. Surveyors ranked NJIT No. 31 in the graduate category, as the only New Jersey institution on ...

No. 5 NJIT Takes Down No. 4 Vermont in America East Quarterfinals

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Fifth-seeded NJIT scored a goal in each half to take down fourth-seeded Vermont, 2-1, in the 2023 America East Quarterfinals Saturday afternoon at Virtue Field. VIDEO: Highlights Saturday marks the second time the Highlanders have defeated No. 16 Vermont, a top-20 team in the nation, thi...

Eight Students Selected for Highly Competitive NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Program

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Eight Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) students have recently begun their journey as members of the elite CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program during fall 2023 through the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative (SCI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each recipie...

Researchers Find Ethical Risks Where Mixed-Reality Gaming Meets AI

Monday, November 6th, 2023
Researchers at NJIT and Universidad Carlos III of Madrid wanted to know if mixed-reality games could be improved by handing control to artificial intelligence software in the form of conversational language applications — it turns out they can, but the results may put players in danger. The questio...
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