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NJIT Researchers Unveil Particle Accelerator Region Inside a Solar Flare

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy — equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once — physicists still haven’t been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Eart...

ECE PhD Candidate receives Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering wants to congratulate one of its PhD candidates and October 2021 ECE PhD Student of the month winner, Ludvik Alkhoury, for receiving the Excellence in Teaching Award in the category of Instruction by Teaching Assistants...

'iRecommend' wins GfK's NextGen Data Science Hackathon

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition. “iRecommend” is a pro...

NJIT-Led Team Revitalizes Teeth Through Tissue Regeneration

Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and cement. What remains is a mineral shell in place of a living tooth. “Teeth lacking dental pulp are mo...

NJIT President-Elect Teik Lim to Discuss Innovation at NAI Meeting

Sunday, June 5th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology President-Elect Teik C. Lim will talk about innovation at the next annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors. Lim, who'll begin his NJIT presidency on July 1, is participating in a Presidents’ Panel on “innovation in university culture, innovating for fu...

Thirteen Highlanders Named 2021-22 America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes

Friday, June 3rd, 2022
The America East Conference has announced that 12 student-athletes from NJIT have been named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Thursday. The award recognizes graduating student-athletes ...

Basketball Coach Brian Kennedy Signs Paul McMillan IV, Highest-Rated Recruit in Program History

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
The NJIT men's basketball team will have a new look in 2022-23 and Head Coach Brian Kennedy has announced he program's first newcomer, Paul McMillian IV.  McMillan IV is the highest ranked recruit in program history as the standout is ranked 123rd on the Rivals Top 150 and recently t...

NJ Society for Information Management Awards YWCC Scholarships

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
Computer science undergraduates Alfred Simpson and Luis Velasquez each received $5,000 scholarships this spring from the New Jersey chapter of the Society for Information Management. The society is a professional organization for information technology executives. Scholarships are provided by the s...

Pride Month

Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
Dear NJIT Community Members, The month of June is widely celebrated as Pride Month throughout the United States and across much of the globe. It is a time during which we purposefully highlight and celebrate the impact and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, both on campus and around the world. I...

JerseyCTF Competition Shatters Record for Highest Participation from Around the World

Tuesday, May 31st, 2022
It was a global cyber attack of epic proportions — but only in the best way possible for the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the NJIT Secure Computing Initiative. The second annual NJIT JerseyCTF competition attracted participants from around the world and e...