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How NJIT's Business School Has Evolved Under Dean Oya Tukel

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Oya Tukel leads the Martin Tuchman School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology like a business — and a scrappy, entrepreneurial one at that. “We’re nimble and flexible with a simple organizational structure. We’re very flat. We share the work. Also, faculty has flexibility to teach i...

Research from NJIT and Yale Leads to Trio of Computing Innovations

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
New research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Yale University, intended to help identify obscure patterns in overwhelmingly large and convoluted data, is producing novel side effects that advance the state of very old and very new technology. NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader said...

NJIT Promotes Lenny Kaplan to Vice President/Director of Athletics

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Lenny Kaplan, who has headed New Jersey Institute of Technology's division of physical education and athletics since August 2000, has been promoted to the new title of Vice President/Director of Athletics. Kaplan has been instrumental in guiding the program's growth, first at the NCAA Division II l...

NJIT and NYU Researchers Advance AI Audio Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing with NSF Grant

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and NYU researchers are working together to break ground in the field of digital accessibility through a newly funded effort to make online video content more inclusive for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) viewers. Backed by $800,000 in National Science Found...

New NSF Grant Will Fund Research for AI-Supported Audio Captioning

Monday, July 28th, 2025
Words have meaning – and so do sounds. They can signal danger, establish a setting or create a mood. But what if you have a complete or partial hearing loss? Accessibility technology has thus far made great strides in captioning words when viewing video content but overlooks the nuances of visualiz...

5 Future Innovators: How NJIT's Pre-College Program is Helping Scholars Build a STEM-Driven Tomorrow

Thursday, July 24th, 2025
At New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), the path to STEM achievement often begins long before college. Through its nationally recognized Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP), the university engages students in grades 4–12 each year — many from Newark and other historically underserved commun...

ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference — Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing and Technology — organized in part by NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing dean Jamie Payton along with informatics faculty Mike...

Men's Soccer Announces 2025 Slate

Monday, July 21st, 2025
NJIT head coach Fernando Barboto, entering his 10th season at NJIT, announced the Highlanders 2025 slate which features 17 matches, including seven home matches at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. "We have a very tough non-conference schedule that we believe will prepare us for the ri...

David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
Distinguished Professor David Bader in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science has been recognized among an elite roster of High-Performance Computing (HPC) pioneers in the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2025 list. The honorees are selected annually based on contributions to the H...

NJIT Awarded State Grant to Bridge Technology Divide in New Jersey

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded $1 million through the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s (NJDOL) Digital Literacy and Equity Training Grant Program to launch its Building Digital Bridges initiative — a comprehensive program that will provide digita...