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How an NJIT Forensic Team Helped Exonerate Two Men Wrongfully Imprisoned for Murder

Wednesday, September 27th, 2023
A New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic team’s crime scene reconstruction of a 1994 shooting in Queens, N.Y. has helped clear the names of two wrongfully convicted men who spent a combined 37 years in prison for murder. A long-awaited moment of vindication came for Armond McCloud (incarcerate...

NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from...

NJIT Professor Advances to Finals of $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Monday, September 11th, 2023
NJIT biology professor Eric Fortune and a team of scientists, known as “Team Waponi”, have reached the final stage of the five-year, $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Competition. In June, Fortune and 13 other team members traveled to the rainforests of Singapore to compete in the semi-finals of the global co...

NJIT Showcases the Most Impactful Research and Innovation from Students

Monday, August 21st, 2023
Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of ...

Perfect Record: All of NJIT's Pre-Health Seniors Accepted into Grad Programs

Monday, August 7th, 2023
There aren’t many better places in the region to be than NJIT if you’re an undergraduate student aspiring to become a medical professional, and the numbers are backing it up. This year’s entire graduating cohort from NJIT’s Pre-health Program has been accepted and is matriculating into graduate hea...

At NJIT, McNair Scholars Advance Research as Their Futures Unfold

Monday, July 24th, 2023
NJIT’s McNair Scholars have been igniting their research efforts in campus labs this summer, and many are starting to see their career aspirations take shape in the process. NJIT’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement program has often been described as life-changing by those selected ev...

Uncharted Territory: NJIT Ecologist Investigates Forest Fate Amid Climate Change, Wildfire

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
Nearly a decade ago, a bark beetle infestation tore through southeast Wyoming's Snowy Range, transforming lush landscape of Medicine Bow National Forest into a tinderbox of dead lodgepole pine. In Sept. 2020 it ignited — what became known as the Mullen Fire raged beyond the parkland across 176,000 a...

PSE&G President Tells NJIT Class of 2023 to 'Move Forward with Purpose'

Friday, May 19th, 2023
The head of New Jersey’s largest utility urged the Class of 2023 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to embrace change and remain positive in the face of challenges ranging from climate change and social inequity to artificial intelligence. “Finding solutions will require new faces and perspectiv...

NJIT Scholar Brings Can-Do Mindset to Her Next Chapter at UPenn

Thursday, May 18th, 2023
Be it in a lab, in a classroom or on a soccer field, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Cassidy Landis is focused, driven and caring. Those qualities should serve her well as she becomes a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Landis, who earned a bac...

NJIT Master's and Doctoral Graduates Encouraged to Look Beyond Their Degrees at 2023 Commencement

Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up waves of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies on May 16. The 2023 class, composed of more than 1,300 graduates, is the largest in five years and reflects the la...