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NJIT Signs 3 Agreements to Collaborate With Chinese University

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and NJIT are now partners in education. The institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), as well as two other agreements involving NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), Oct. 25 in Beijing. Joel S. Bloom, NJIT presiden...

NJIT Professor Wins Fulbright Award, Joins Int'l Circadian Clock Research Project

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Casey Diekman, associate professor of mathematics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been named recipient of a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the United Kingdom in Mathematical Biology.   With the announcement of his&n...

Professor David Rothenberg & His Orca-stra for Humpback Whales

Monday, November 4th, 2019
NJIT’s very own Professor David Rothenberg is well-known for his music philosophy. Rothenberg has spent many years combining music and nature, to create music that features the natural world including birds, whales and insects. In fact, he has been referred to as an “interspecies musician.” Recentl...

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...