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NJIT Professor's Award-Winning Album Amplifies Heroine Voices of WWII's Italian Resistance

Monday, November 3rd, 2025
World War II has been revisited countless times in books and films. But NJIT professor Laura Montanari set out on a unique songwriting project to bring to life overlooked voices in the Allied fight against fascism — heroines of Italy’s underground resistance. Her new collection of “archival songs”—...

Modernizing Health Records for the Most Vulnerable

Friday, October 31st, 2025
Over a decade ago, an NJIT health care startup took up a daunting challenge: to train 5,000 primary care providers in the state to adopt electronic health record systems that would allow them to better track their patients, improve their quality of care and securely share information.  The federal ...

Mark Cartwright Uses AI to Give Non-Verbal Performers a Voice in New Opera

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Art is rooted in thought and emotion. The greatest music and drama allow viewers and performers alike to feel joy, anger or sadness as a shared communicative experience. But how does someone with no voice “sing” in an opera? Assistant Professor Mark Cartwright, who leads the Sound Interaction and C...

NJIT and NJII Launch PureTrace Labs to Commercialize PFAS Detection Technology

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) today announced the launch of PureTrace Labs, a startup created to bring NJIT-developed technology for rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to market. The company marks the first offici...

Women's Soccer Defeats Maine 2-1 in Home Finale

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
The NJIT women's soccer team (6-5-6, 1-3-3 AE) defeated Maine (3-7-3, 2-3-2 AE), 2-1, in its final regular season home game on Saturday night at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. Interview with head coach Ally Nick How it Happened NJIT struck first in the third minute when Briana Andreoli scor...

NJIT Again Named Among Nation's Greenest Colleges in The Princeton Review's 2026 Guide

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has again been recognized as one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible universities, earning a Green Rating of 91 out of 99 in The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges: 2026 Edition. The annual guide honors institutions that demonstrate exce...

Veltrup and Mastromarino Lead NJIT at Temple

Sunday, October 26th, 2025
Highlander newcomers Paul Veltrup and Fabio Mastromarino led NJIT to an impressive performance at the 2025 Coach Nikki Franke Open hosted by Temple Sunday. Graduate student Paul Veltrup from Grefrath, Germany captured the gold medal in the men's epee competition while teammate Fabio Mastromarino, a...

Vitali Earns Bronze Medal at 2025 Coach Nikki Franke Open

Saturday, October 25th, 2025
Freshman Asia Vitali earned a third-place finish in the women's epee at the 2025 Coach Nikki Franke Open hosted by Temple Saturday afternoon. Results Vitali from Forli, Italy, was the top finisher on the day for the Highlanders, placing third in the women's epee competition in her collegiate debut...

Passing of Dr. Daljit Singh Ahluwalia

Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Dear Highlanders, We are saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Daljit Singh Ahluwalia, who joined NJIT in 1986 as chair of the Department of Mathematics following an extraordinary career at the NYU Courant Institute, where he worked at the forefront of Applied Mathematics with a focus on wave pro...

Rupak Bhakta - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2025

Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Rupak Bhakta is a second-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, working in the Biophotonics Imaging and Sensing Lab with Xuan Liu. His research focuses on deploying advanced interferometric imaging techniques that enable label-free visualization of cellular and nanoparticle dynam...