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NJIT Celebrates Enrollment Milestone After Revamped Convocation Ceremony

Friday, September 6th, 2024
The 2024 academic year kicked off with a Convocation that had a different spin. With the participation of DJ Ricky Bonds, NJIT’s Jazz Band ‘Elementals,’ Highland Dancers and bagpipers and even a special edition of Family Feud NJIT-style, the university’s incoming class received an upbeat welcome. Th...

NJIT Biologist Awarded $680,000 Federal Grant to Save North-Atlantic Right Whale

Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
Brooke Flammang, a biologist at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been awarded nearly $680,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of a growing nationwide effort to save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). NOAA ...

5 from NJIT Earn 'Enterprising Women in Commerce' Accolade

Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
Five professors and administrators from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have been recognized as "Enterprising Women in Commerce" by Commerce Magazine, an honor that highlights outstanding achievements across a range of industries. The honorees are among the select group chosen by the Comme...

Undergrad's Research Informed by Your Mood and Playlist

Monday, August 12th, 2024
Spotifeel is a new computer program to help scientists evaluate the relationship between your mood and your playlist, developed by NJIT rising senior Rain Nutt for her undergraduate summer research. Existing efforts tend to evaluate all listeners by the same set of music, whether they like the songs...

NJIT Celebrates Largest Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her d...

NJIT Renames College of Science and Liberal Arts, Honoring Historic Gift from Alumnus Jordan Hu

Monday, August 5th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of its College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a f...

NJIT Researchers Close in on New Technology for Objectively Measuring Pain

Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
On a scale of one to ten, how much pain do you feel? It’s a question many patients get from their doctor in the U.S. each day, often accompanied by the Visual Analogue Scale from 1-10 that was first introduced in clinics in 1921. A century later, the simple assessment is perhaps the most widely used...

NJIT Alumni Jordan Hu and Dieter Weissenrieder Honored at NJ Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
The 11th Annual New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Awards, held on June 25 at the Pines Manor in Edison, New Jersey, celebrated the remarkable achievements of immigrant business leaders who have significantly contributed to New Jersey’s economy. Among the distinguished honorees were two exceptional a...

Sunblock for Solar Panels: NJIT Startup Merges Data, Material Science

Thursday, June 20th, 2024
Materium Technologies, a startup company with deep NJIT roots, is bringing data science innovations into the slowly evolving field of solar energy panels. Startups are always a gamble, but the Materium team has a good hand, with two pair of Highlanders — recent alumni Sheldon Fereira (M.S. ‘23) and ...

Researchers Shed Light on Cause of 'Happy Hypoxia' in COVID-19 Patients

Monday, June 17th, 2024
While many serious cases of COVID-19 are marked by respiratory distress and dangerously low blood oxygen levels — a condition referred to as hypoxia — the occurrence of “silent or happy hypoxia” affecting a subset of patients has puzzled experts since the pandemic's onset. Now, computational modelin...