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NJIT Erases 22-Point Halftime Deficit to Earn First America East Win at UMBC

Saturday, January 27th, 2024
For the second time this season, veteran big man Kjell de Graaf put back an NJIT miss in the final minute of play to put the Highlanders in front and give them a victory, this time against host UMBC in America East Conference action on Saturday evening at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance...

NJIT's Simulated Power Grid Helps Engineers Plan for Car Chargers and Wind Farms

Friday, January 26th, 2024
Increases in electric car sales and offshore wind farm construction are poised to both tax and bolster the American power transmission grid, so researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology are building a grid simulator to help industry predict the effects and plan accordingly. The NJIT team is...

ROI-NJ Recognizes 17 NJIT Highlanders in its 2024 Power Lists

Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Seventeen people associated with New Jersey Institute of Technology made ROI-NJ’s annual lists of influential power brokers in New Jersey, with three cracking the top Super 60 Power List.  The Super 60 honorees were President Teik C. Lim, Luiz De La Hoz, a member of NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Lead...

Researchers Establish Brain Pathway Linking Motivation, Addiction and Disease

Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Over 86 billion neurons are in the human brain, roughly 450,000 of which generate dopamine — a powerful neurotransmitter that drives motivated behavior, learning and habit formation. Now, researchers say one brain region, the cerebellum, may hold more influence over these dopamine neurons than reali...

Remarkable Sibling Duo Volunteer at Saint Michael's While Attending NJIT

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
This story is republished with permission from Saint Michael's Medical Center By the time she was in seventh grade, Pooja Datir’s teachers ran out of grade-level material to give her. Her teachers suggested she start taking college courses. Her brother Rohit maxed out in fifth grade and also start...

NJIT Awarded $6 Million from the National Science Foundation to Commercialize Campus Inventions

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
NJIT has secured a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to translate science and engineering discoveries into market-ready technologies that will improve quality of life in areas ranging from health care, to sustainable energy, to data privacy. Awarded by the agency’s Directo...

Architecture Alum Wins 2023 Award of Excellence from AIA

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
4/4 Architecture was recognized with an Award of Excellence for the renovations of Hellertown Lofts at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Eastern Pennsylvania Design Awards on Thursday, December 7 at the Allentown Art Museum. Gary Lader, Principal of 4/4 Architecture, is an alumnus of New J...

NJIT Celebrates the Official Naming of the Tarik Rodgers '96 Practice Court

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
As part of NJIT's men's volleyball alumni weekend, NJIT officially named the practice court inside the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Event Center, the Tarik Rodgers '96 Practice Court on Sunday, January 21, 2024 in front of family, friends and alumni. "It was an honor to be with Tarik Ro...

Undergraduate Computing Student Presents Paper as Lead Author at ACM CKIM 2023

Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Vaisnavi Nemala, a senior data science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Albert Dorman Honor’s College, presented a paper on which she served as lead author at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2023 in Birmingham, England. The ach...

Men's Swimming and Diving Earns 195-105 Senior Day Victory Over Rider

Saturday, January 20th, 2024
The NJIT men's swimming and diving team closed out its 2023-24 home schedule and honored its seniors with a 195-105 victory over the Rider Broncs Saturday afternoon at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center Natatorium. "The entire team did a great job today. We had a great training tri...
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