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Happy Holidays from NJIT!

Thursday, December 14th, 2023
Happy Holidays   And Best Wishes  from President Teik C. Lim and NJIT First Lady Gina Lim

Giving Tuesday Generosity Inspires Fresh Produce Donation to NJIT Food Pantry by Paul Profeta

Thursday, December 14th, 2023
The NJIT community showed its heart on Giving Tuesday, raising a record-breaking $24,000 for the university's Food Pantry. The outpouring of support will directly impact hundreds of students facing food insecurity, providing them with not only pantry staples but also fresh produce, professional clot...

NJIT Researcher Examines Birds' Vocal Development With Virtual Tutors

Monday, December 11th, 2023
In the highly social world of the zebra finch, every male has a unique song: a brief motif resembling the squeak of a mechanical toy that he chirps, often in rapid succession, in courtship and communal gatherings. These songs are not innate. Pubescent finches develop their signature sound by listeni...

Sustainable Cities Summer Abroad in Copenhagen

Friday, December 8th, 2023
Twelve NJIT students lived in the world’s most sustainable city this summer. There they considered the architect’s role in shaping urban space as well as the future of carbon negative building materials. The project was led by professors of practice at NJIT's Hillier College of Archit...

Abdelrahman Ismail, Fulbright Winner from Egypt, Chose NJIT for Fintech

Thursday, December 7th, 2023
Abdelrahman Ismail, an MBA student from Egypt specializing in financial technology and entrepreneurship, is the first Fulbright Scholar to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Martin Tuchman School of Management. Ismail is from Damanhur, a city southeast of Alexandria. He trained as a civil ...

Kjell de Graaf's Last Second Putback Lifts NJIT to Come From Behind Win at Fordham

Wednesday, December 6th, 2023
The NJIT men's basketball team trailed by as many as 12 on Wednesday night, but battled back late, getting a put-back from veteran Kjell de Graaf with 2.0 seconds to play for an 80-77 victory over a Fordham squad that won 25 games last season. After de Graaf's heroic putback, Mekhi G...

Yuwei Liu - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2023

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Yuwei Liu is in his fourth year of pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Under the advisement of Professor Xuan Liu in the Lab of biomedical optical imaging and sensing. His research focuses on optical coherence tomography (OCT), OCT image analysis assisted by machine learning, and optically...

New NJIT Committee Tackles Gender Imbalance in Faculty

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll w...

Parth Mehta: Building a Founders Mindset for Life Success

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startu...

3 NJIT Highlanders Recognized for Environmental Leadership

Monday, December 4th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology Trustee Dennis Toft tops ROI-NJ’s inaugural list of influencers on the environment, which also features Trustee Gary Dahms and Colette Santasieri, executive director of NJIT’s Center for Community Systems (CCS). Toft, chair of environmental law at Chiesa Shahinian...