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NJIT Fields Record Number of Applications from First-Year Students for 2nd Straight Year

Friday, March 19th, 2021
For the second straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has broken its record for first-year student applications with a total of more than 11,250. All five of NJIT’s academic colleges experienced increases, led by a 21% jump from the Martin Tuchman School of Management, which eclipsed 1,00...

Buoyed By Generosity, 'Celebration of Hope' Event Inspires

Friday, March 19th, 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a constant motif embraced by the members of the Highlander community: Unrelenting generosity and support. In the fall of 2020, the Highlander Emergency Fund—a special fund to help students facing emergency-related financial hardships—was replenished ...

NJIT Makes Global List in QS Subject Rankings

Thursday, March 18th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked in three subject areas in the 2021 QS World University Rankings By Subject list, marking the third year in a row NJIT has earned a spot on the global ranking. The full 2021 rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organization specializing ...

NJIT Co-Hosts 2021 Forensic Science Summit for the Criminal Defense Bar

Thursday, March 18th, 2021
This March 23-25, New Jersey Institute of Technology is set to join the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey (ACDL-NJ) and New Jersey State Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD) in co-hosting the 2021 Forensic Science Summit for the Criminal Defense Bar — the leading annual for...

Institute for Data Science Aims to Democratize Supercomputing With NSF Grant

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Ordinary people could soon have greater ability to analyze massive amounts of information, based on new algorithms and software tools being designed at NJIT, intended to simplify access to a programming interface from data scientists at the Department of Defense. It's relatively straightforward to ...

New Study Shows Microplastics Turn Into 'Hubs' for Pathogens, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
It’s estimated that an average-sized wastewater treatment plant serving roughly 400,000 residents will discharge up to 2,000,000 microplastic particles into the environment each day. Yet, researchers are still learning the environmental and human health impact of these ultra-fine plas...

Tevogen Bio Partners With BioCentriq to Enhance Development Capacity of T Cell Therapy for COVID-19

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Tevogen Bio announces partnership with BioCentriq, New Jersey Innovation Institute’s pioneering cell and gene therapy center, to support clinical manufacturing of Tevogen’s investigational COVID-19 treatment. Under the partnership, experts from both entities will collaborate at BioCentriq’s state-o...

NJIT and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Launch New Institute for Future Technologies

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, President Daniel Chamovitz of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and President Joel S. Bloom of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have unveiled a partnership that will create a world-class Institute for Future Technologies in New Jersey. Two p...

NJIT Symposium Hosting Leading Practitioners in Sustainable Design

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
If you have ever checked a product to see if it is low emission, energy efficient or sustainably sourced, you may be looking at information that has been derived from life cycle inventory (LCI) records in any of several curated national public or proprietary databases.  On March 30 to April 1,...

Grad Student Follows His Passions in Data Science, Dilruba, Hip-Hop Music

Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Tejveer "T.J." Singh lives a double life that might be the envy of many other college students. By day, Singh is an unassuming data engineer, armed with an NJIT bachelor's degree in computer science and working from home in Milltown, N.J. for a San Francisco startup company, while also still enroll...