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Sunday, June 6th, 2021
Dear Community Members, Today, at 3 pm, our Highlander baseball team will play the University of Nebraska in the NCAA tournament after playing very competitively in an opening round loss against the #1 team in the nation (the University of Arkansas) and then capturing NJIT’s first-ever NC...

Highlander Baseball Makes History with First-Ever NCAA Tournament Win

Saturday, June 5th, 2021
The NJIT baseball team made more history on Saturday afternoon, earning the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament win in school history in any sport (since moving Division I in 2007) with a 3-2 victory over Northeastern in the Fayetteville Regional at Baum-Walker Stadium hosted by Arkansas. Wit...

Smart Play: NJIT Athletics Boasts a 25-Semester Streak in the Classroom

Friday, June 4th, 2021
3.49 is not a baseball ERA, basketball steals per game, volleyball block average, or any other athletic statistic measured of the Highlanders this spring semester. Rather, it is their impressive cumulative grade point average. This semester marks the 25th straight that Highlander student athletes h...

NJIT Presidential Search Update

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021
Dear NJIT Community Members, We are pleased to share the position profile for NJIT’s presidential search, which is based on broad and collective input from the NJIT community. Your thoughts and comments over the past two months have been invaluable in shaping a st...

Accomplished Engineering Grad Says NJIT Opened Doors to Her Success

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
At NJIT, Sydney Sweet’s success extended beyond the classroom into research labs, cooperative educational experiences, a Goldwater scholarship and the opportunity to study in Australia.  Remarkably, the chemical engineering major and Albert Dorman Honors College scholar also found time to tuto...

Memorial Day 2021

Monday, May 31st, 2021
NJIT Community Members, Today, many of us will have the opportunity to safely gather with family and friends as we mark the Memorial Day holiday and honor those who have died while serving in the U.S. military. That is the purpose of this holiday, so I would like to thank all NJIT’s veterans and cu...

Duetting Songbirds 'Mute' the Musical Mind of Their Partner to Stay in Sync

Monday, May 31st, 2021
Art Garfunkel once described his legendary musical chemistry with Paul Simon, “We meet somewhere in the air through the vocal cords ... .” But a new study of duetting songbirds from Ecuador, the plain-tail wren (Pheugopedius euophrys), has offered another tune explaining the mysterious connection be...

NJIT Baseball Makes History, Will Play in First NCAA Division I Tournament

Sunday, May 30th, 2021
Update (May 31, 2021): The NJIT baseball team (26-22) will play in the program's first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament when the Highlanders visit No. 1 Arkansas (46-10) in the Fayetteville Regional on Friday, June 4 at Baum-Walker Stadium. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m. on ESPN3. Video...

NJIT Advances to America East Championship Game in Walkoff Fashion

Friday, May 28th, 2021
The NJIT baseball team trailed Maine 1-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth on Friday, but got a sacrifice fly from Daniel Helfgott and RBI single from Luke Longo to plate a pair of runs, win the game, and earn a spot in Saturday's America East Tournament Championship game back...

Computing Professor Develops Algorithms to Design Faster Computer Circuits

Friday, May 28th, 2021
Research conducted by Ioannis Koutis, associate professor of computer science at NJIT, may change how manufacturers think about logic circuit design and increasing circuit processing speeds compared to state-of-the-art methods. When a manufacturer designs a logic circuit, it is necessary, particula...