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NJIT’s President Lim Honored as Trailblazer at 2025 NJ Business Hall of Fame

Thursday, November 20th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) President Teik C. Lim was honored with the 2025 Trailblazer Award at the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame, presented by Junior Achievement of New Jersey (JANJ). The event recognized leaders whose vision, innovation and community impact are shaping the state’...

Entrepreneurship Lessons Coming to Introductory Engineering Courses

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Entrepreneurship lessons are being added to introductory engineering courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2026, where students will be motivated to learn front-end product research and digital drafting by designing their own products.The adjustment is the second recent change to MET-103,...

BINJE 2026 Power Players Include Key Leaders from NJIT

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Members of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) leadership are among those recognized on BINJE’s 2026 Power Players list — a showcase of more than 100 CEOs, principals, managing partners and executives who are shaping the future of business in New Jers...

Pritam Sen PhD ’25 Authors Paper with Professor Cristian Borcea at ACM CCS Conference, Now Researches with Meta

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
Pritam Sen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at NJIT in May 2025, and has achieved what in horse racing is called the triple crown.He most recently had a first-author paper at the highly competitive ACM CCS conference with his Ph.D. advisor, Professor Cristian Borcea. The paper presented CryptGNN...

Big Fourth Quarter Powers Women's Basketball to a 68-63 Win at St. Thomas

Sunday, November 16th, 2025
A big fourth quarter powered NJIT to a 68-63 road victory at St. Thomas Sunday afternoon in women's basketball non-conference action inside Lee and Penny Anderson Arena.NJIT, which was down by 10 at the end of the third quarter, 56-46, outscored St. Thomas, 22-7 in the fourth quarter on its way to a...

Men's Basketball Defeats FDU as Bolden and Awad Score Career Highs

Saturday, November 15th, 2025
The NJIT men's basketball team defeats FDU, 91-78, led by freshman pair David Bolden and Rocco Awad on Saturday evening.The Highlanders offense was clicking early on shooting 8-15 from the field halfway through the first half. The team's hot start slowed down as turnovers caused ...

Foundations of Success: Conor McCann's NJIT Roots and Rise at DMR

Thursday, November 13th, 2025
When Conor McCann looks back on his journey from NJIT to becoming a project architect at DMR Architects, one word stands out — foundation.It’s the same concept he applies to every project he touches: a structure is only as strong as the foundation beneath it. For McCann, that foundation was built du...

Record-Setting 'Celebration' Raises Historic Support for NJIT Students

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s annual Celebration fundraiser drew its largest audience ever and raised a record $1 million in support of student scholarships — marking a milestone in the event’s 30-year history. Held Nov. 7 at The Grove in Cedar Grove, the black-tie gala united alumni, corpor...

NJIT Reaches Top 20 Internationally in Princeton Review Entrepreneurship Ranking, No. 1 in NJ

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Student entrepreneurship education at New Jersey Institute of Technology was recognized by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, which placed the Newark university at No. 19 for graduate-level study and 33 for undergraduates, out of 300 universities worldwide. The rankings in their Top Schools for...

Veterans Day

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Dear Highlanders, Today we celebrate Veterans Day, honoring those who have served in the United States Armed Forces.  NJIT has an extensive history of partnership with the military. Thousands of our graduates and hundreds of our current students, as well as many faculty and staff, have s...