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NJIT, Leader at Stryker and NJIT Recognized for Innovation in Medical Technology

Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
Written by: Andrew McMains and Tracey Regan Published: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 .authorship {display: none} The Research & Development Council of New Jersey is recognizing medical technology developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Stryker executive Robert C. Cohen’s leader...

Cross Country Releases 2025 Schedule

Monday, August 4th, 2025
NJIT cross country head coach Jason Munsch has announced the team's 2025 schedule, which features nine meets, including three home meets at Branch Brook Park. "I am extremely excited about the team we have assembled and what is possible this season. In my opinion, the 2025 men's and women...

Women's Volleyball Announces 2025 Schedule

Monday, August 4th, 2025
The NJIT women's volleyball team, led by seventh-year head coach Pedro Trevino, has announced its schedule for the 2025 season. The Highlanders will take part in 26 matches during the season, with nine taking place at home inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. NJIT will p...

Mat Schwartz Elected Chair of the School of Art + Design at NJIT's Hillier College

Friday, August 1st, 2025
Mat Schwartz has been elected chair of the School of Art + Design at Hillier College effective July 1, 2025. Schwartz is an exemplar of the kind of design professional that he and fellow faculty train at Hillier College: interdisciplinary, creative and technically proficient. Schwartz’s work reflect...

AI Breakthrough at NJIT Unlocks 'New' Materials to Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries

Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. In research published in “Cell Reports Physical Science”, the NJIT te...

How NJIT's Business School Has Evolved Under Dean Oya Tukel

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Oya Tukel leads the Martin Tuchman School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology like a business — and a scrappy, entrepreneurial one at that. “We’re nimble and flexible with a simple organizational structure. We’re very flat. We share the work. Also, faculty has flexibility to teach i...

Research from NJIT and Yale Leads to Trio of Computing Innovations

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
New research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Yale University, intended to help identify obscure patterns in overwhelmingly large and convoluted data, is producing novel side effects that advance the state of very old and very new technology. NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader said...

NJIT Promotes Lenny Kaplan to Vice President/Director of Athletics

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Lenny Kaplan, who has headed New Jersey Institute of Technology's division of physical education and athletics since August 2000, has been promoted to the new title of Vice President/Director of Athletics. Kaplan has been instrumental in guiding the program's growth, first at the NCAA Division II l...

NJIT and NYU Researchers Advance AI Audio Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing with NSF Grant

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and NYU researchers are working together to break ground in the field of digital accessibility through a newly funded effort to make online video content more inclusive for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) viewers. Backed by $800,000 in National Science Found...

New NSF Grant Will Fund Research for AI-Supported Audio Captioning

Monday, July 28th, 2025
Words have meaning – and so do sounds. They can signal danger, establish a setting or create a mood. But what if you have a complete or partial hearing loss? Accessibility technology has thus far made great strides in captioning words when viewing video content but overlooks the nuances of visualiz...