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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...

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...

An Aspiring Technology Leader's Next Educational Stop is STEM Powerhouse ETH Zurich

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021
Roberto Adamson, an aspiring technology leader who aims to create AI-driven convenience and efficiency for peoples’ homes and workplaces, will begin the next stage of his professional journey at one of the world’s preeminent STEM universities. Named the “Outstanding Senior” for the Department of E...

College of Computing Continues to Deliver Customized Corporate Training

Monday, May 24th, 2021
When Fusion Recruiting Labs, a tech company that builds employment tools to help customers accelerate hiring processes and increase the efficiency of HR recruitment campaigns, wanted to help their 77 staff members realize maximum benefit from its database systems, they contacted the Ying Wu College ...

A Mathematician and a Biomedical Engineer Win 2020 Excellence in Research Awards

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Caption: Senior Vice Provost for Research Atam Dhawan (far left) and Chair of the Board of Overseers awards committee Emil Herkert (far right) with the 2020 Excellence in Research award winners, (left to right) Bryan Pfister, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (standing in for Nama...

Researchers Explain, and Predict, COVID-19 Spread With Advanced Models

Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the virus’s migration from the initial, densely populated hot spots and try to curb its spread. Months later, infections were nonetheless recorded in similar patterns in nearly every...

Missing the NJIT Campus? Engineering Student Made One in Minecraft

Monday, May 3rd, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new campus, but you can only go there by computer because civil engineering major Pawel Sierhej built it entirely in Minecraft. Sierhej, a junior who commutes from Linden, said he was inspired to build the virtual campus because he missed being at the real o...

NJIT ACM Chapter Hosts JerseyCTF Cybersecurity Competition

Friday, April 30th, 2021
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first cybersecurity competition last month, with one of its own members on the winning team among more than 600 participants from 26 countries. The event, called JerseyCTF, was a capture-the-flag event where entrants test ...

NJIT Student-Research Back in the Spotlight at 2021 Dana Knox Showcase

Sunday, April 25th, 2021
After a year layoff, one of NJIT’s standout annual research events returned to the campus community this month — more than 30 of the university’s top student-researchers took to their webcams to present their work for a virtual audience at the 2021 Dana Knox Research Showcase, "A Glimpse Into the Fu...

Here Comes the Sun: NJ Elementary Students Turn Solar Engineers at NJIT's eSTEM Competition

Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs and Newark College of Engineering this month introduced their first-ever STEM competition for New Jersey’s elementary school students — the eSTEM Competition. Highlighting the marathon-like week of friendly competition was a special solar energy design challeng...