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New Experiences at New Student Orientation

Monday, November 4th, 2019
College Freshman Orientation covers a lot in a short amount of time, but above all, it serves as a transition into a new phase in a college student’s life.   Over the past few weeks, NJIT has been hosting New Student Or...

Highlander Halloween

Monday, November 4th, 2019
NJIT students were creepin’ it real this All Hallow’s Eve! NJIT’s campus was busy with lots of ghouls, goblins and ghosts!    Check out some of the Highlander Halloween costumes this year:   ...

NJIT Clinches ASUN Conference Regular Season Title in Historic Night

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
A historic night in the making, the NJIT men's soccer team clinched the programs first-ever ASUN Conference regular season title behind a hat trick by redshirt junior Rene White in the Highlanders 5-0 shutout over Jacksonville in the final regular season match for both teams at Lubetkin Fi...

NJIT Research in 1970s Became Vital Parts of Today's Social Media Recipe

Thursday, October 31st, 2019
Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes – developed here at NJIT in the 1970s. The main purpose of EIES was to be a ...

Hillier Prof. Zaitseva Wins Fashion Film Award

Thursday, October 31st, 2019
Polina Zaitseva, an adjunct professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won an international competition for fashion and beauty films this month. Showstudio.com, operated by noted photographer Nick Knight, runs the contest known as the Film Fashion Awards. Zaitseva flew to London a...

Tech Treatment: NJIT Re-engineering Team Helps Local Emergency Department

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades. Among other notable rankings, the acute-care teaching hospital has received 16 A ratings in a row from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, and is one of less than 41 hospitals in the country to achieve this consis...

An NJIT Engineer Proposes a New Model for the Way Humans Localize Sounds

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group members. In modern times, finding a lost cell phone by usin...

NJIT Sits at the Top of the ASUN, Cubero Scores Pair of Goals in NJIT's 2-1 Road Win at FGCU

Monday, October 28th, 2019
Junior transfer Gerald Cubero scored a pair of goals in NJIT's 2-1 road win at FGCU in ASUN Conference men's soccer action at the FGCU Soccer Complex Saturday evening. With the win at FGCU, NJIT moves to the top of the ASUN standings with 12 points and controls its own destiny for the ASUN Conferen...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Environmental Health and Hurricane Impacts

Monday, October 28th, 2019
There are over 200 hazardous waste sites in Puerto Rico, including 24 Superfund sites, causing significant contamination of water resources. Air pollution from refineries, power plants, motor vehicles, and large ships at ports is also very high. Puerto Ricans stand out as the most health-disparate H...

NJIT Announces Appointment of Inaugural Director of Cyberpsychology

Monday, October 28th, 2019
Oct. 28, 2019 — NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that Julie Ancis will join the Department of Humanities as professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology. Ancis — who holds fellow status in two divisions within the American Psychological Association (APA) through h...