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NJIT Prof. Wins NSF CAREER Award to Study Quantum Material for Next-Gen Electronics

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
NJIT Assistant Professor of Physics Junjie Yang has won a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER Award to explore the unusual properties of quantum materials that hold the potential to propel the next generation of smaller, more energy-efficient electronic devices. The CAREER Award is among NSF’...

Undergrads Compete in NJIT's First Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Competition

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
Undergraduates Nora Mahgoub ’25 and Victoria Pirog ’25 are already solving complex ethical dilemmas of today’s engineering world, and doing so on a grand stage, as the first NJIT students to compete at Lockheed Martin’s annual Ethics in Engineering Competition. Mahgoub and Pirog recently joined othe...

NJIT Mathematics Professor Unveils Modeling Projections for MLB's 2023 Season

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
As baseball fans gear up for MLB’s Opening Day and the marathon of another 162-game season, new modeling predictions of NJIT mathematics professor Bruce Bukiet have already divined the winners and losers when the dust settles on the final day of the 2023 season in October. America’s pastime has alwa...

NJIT Hosts Conference Asking: 'How Can Artificial Intelligence Be a Force for Good?'

Friday, March 24th, 2023
How can we prevent artificial intelligence from exacerbating systemic discrimination and leverage it as a force for good to promote social and environmental justice? Policy experts from organizations such as the Innocence Project, prominent data scientists and others will discuss the profound, but o...

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT a Top 50 School to Study Game Design

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology has again earned a spot on The Princeton Review’s top 50 undergraduate schools for game design in the 2023 rankings. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on its 2022 survey of administrators at 150 institutions across the U.S. and abroad offering game desig...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesko...

NJIT Student Unveils Shock Sunquake Discoveries at SC22 NASA Exhibit

Monday, March 13th, 2023
NJIT Ph.D. physics student John Stefan has new findings about earthquake-like events on the Sun that have recently shaken up the world of space science during one of the biggest international conferences for high-performance computing of the year — the SC22 Supercomputing Conference. At SC22 in Dall...

NJIT Launches PhD Program in Data Science

Friday, February 17th, 2023
Today’s world is driven by data – and data science is what powers the engine in this rapidly expanding global ecosystem. To address the need for talent and knowledge in this emerging field, NJIT’s Departments of Data Science and Mathematical Sciences have launched a new Ph.D. in Data Science program...

Startup Jobs Fair Connects NJIT Students to Local Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
NJIT's Entrepreneur Society hosts an annual startup job fair, providing students with the opportunity to pursue careers and meet directly with the founders of new local companies. Hundreds of students attend, many looking for the perfect match, while others were there to network or learn about the s...

Researchers Discover Mysterious Source of 'Heartbeat-like' Radio Bursts in a Solar Flare

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
A solar radio burst with a signal pattern, akin to that of a heartbeat, has been pinpointed in the Sun’s atmosphere, according to a new study. In findings published in the journal Nature Communications, an international team of researchers has reported uncovering the source location of a radio signa...