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NJIT Athletics Celebrates Title IX's 50th Anniversary

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 To commemor...

Eric Wolf Hired As New Head Men's Lacrosse Coach

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
Eric Wolf, an America East alumnus and coach with nearly 15 years of combined experience, has been named the second-ever head coach of the NJIT Men's Lacrosse program, Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced Friday afternoon. "We are excited to have Eric...

NJIT Forensic Anthropologist Investigates New Leads to Identify the Nameless

Monday, June 27th, 2022
Ever since police ended the 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer and identified Joseph DeAngelo by uploading crime scene DNA to a popular genealogy website in 2018, advances in DNA forensics have sparked an explosion in once-unsolvable criminal cold cases being resurrected and cracked after a ge...

Listening to Noise and Nature With Smart Ears

Sunday, June 26th, 2022
Filing a noise complaint is a bit of a gamble. By the time an inspector arrives, the stream of trucks thundering by the night before may be long gone or the construction tools bedeviling the dinner hour turned off. In a dense soundscape, even pinpointing the worst offender can be a challenge. Was it...

Four Highlander Programs Highlighted by NCAA for Academic Progress

Monday, June 20th, 2022
Four Highlander programs have been recognized by the NCAA for perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the 2020-21 academic year.  The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance....

Juneteenth

Friday, June 17th, 2022
Dear NJIT Community Members, Today we observe Juneteenth as a state and national holiday that celebrates and commemorates the day - June 19, 1865 -  that Union General Goardon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announce that enslaved black people were free. In reflecting upon the im...

Women's Fencer Marina Arrese Tabs Second Straight CoSIDA Academic All-America Recognition

Friday, June 17th, 2022
NJIT fifth-year women's fencer Marina Arrese has been named as a First-Team selection on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Women's At-Large Team, the organization announced on Wednesday. Arrese, a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America and All...

NJIT Honors President Bloom in Portrait Unveiling

Thursday, June 16th, 2022
A portrait of President Joel S. Bloom was presented in a special ceremony on June 15 in NJIT’s Eberhardt Hall boardroom. Unveiled in front of family, friends, faculty and members of the Board of Trustees, the oil painting continues the tradition of honoring leaders of the institution. The ceremony,...

Mixed Reality Could be the Future of High-Tech Coaching in Team Sports

Thursday, June 16th, 2022
Every pitcher believes he has enough gas for one more strike-out, but an invention from NJIT Associate Professor Tao Han might forever change that old stare-down between players and coaches on the mound. A coach wearing a mixed-reality headset could receive real-time statistics and facial interpret...

VentureLink-Based League Network Acquired for Tech Expertise

Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
Reentry Centers, a company in Alabama that helps former prisoners build productive lifestyles, is looking to New Jersey Institute of Technology students for its employee expansion this year. The company made their Highlander connection by hiring a fundraising expert in serial entrepreneur Jay White...