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Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Releases 'When The Black Squares Fade'

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
The NJIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) recently released a video entitled, "When The Black Squares Fade," that reinforces the Highlander student-athlete community's commitment to social justice. The video - written, edited, and produced completely by NJIT SAAC, features over a dozen stu...

Message from President Bloom: COVID-19 Update 8/14/20

Friday, August 14th, 2020
Dear NJIT Students, Faculty, and Staff As we approach the onset of our Fall semester and the start of classes, NJIT will welcome members of our university back to campus and deliver a significant amount of in-person instruction as well as residence options for our students. We will do so respo...

Graduate from NJIT@JerseyCity First Cohort Shares His Experience

Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Voluminous amounts of data can be overwhelming to even the most experienced professional. That was the experience of Roberto Rivera, a senior research analyst with NJ TRANSIT. Spending his days immersed in large data sets, Roberto realized that continuing his education would provide him with additio...

Summertime Look Back: The NJIT Student Athletes Who Excelled

Thursday, August 13th, 2020
In mid-June, NJIT joined the America East conference, a 10-team league now including schools from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. But as a Division I program for more than a decade already, the university has achieved many athletic triumph...

Free Subscriptions to Barron's for NJIT Students, Spots Are Limited

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
NJIT students can now access a free digital subscription to the Barron’s in Education Program from Dow Jones. The online offering provides entry to Barron’s, which includes its renowned financial portal and magazine, experiential learning and networking opportunities, and more. Students signing up ...

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Historic Science Fiction Offers Lessons for Living With Pandemics

Monday, August 10th, 2020
Science fiction sometimes shows us the future, but really just shows us ourselves, asserts Associate Professor of Humanities and sci-fi aficionado Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. She was teaching the 2014 novel Station Eleven, about a troupe of actors and musicians struggling for normalcy after a global pande...

NJIT's Alvaro Gimeno to Represent Spanish National Volleybal Team

Friday, August 7th, 2020
NJIT men's volleyball rising senior Alvaro Gimeno will represent the Spanish National Team for the third straight summer. The national team will compete from August 30 to September 6 in Cyprus. The qualifier games will consist of three days of games, two days of rest and three more games ...

Attention Bibliophiles: Pick Up a Book by an NJIT Author

Friday, August 7th, 2020
Reading took center stage Aug. 9 when Book Lovers Day was celebrated throughout the country. The unofficial holiday honors reading and literature, and urges people to spend the day transported by a book. Many members of the NJIT community are published book authors, with works ranging from historic...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of el...