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NJIT President Teik C. Lim Elected Fellow of INCE-USA

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) President Teik C. Lim has been elected to the distinguished class of Fellows of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the United States of America (INCE-USA), one of the field’s highest professional honors. The Fellowship recognizes Lim’s pioneering...

Leafy Vegetables Are Now Growing on the Roof of NJIT's Campus Center

Monday, September 29th, 2025
A green space is growing on the roof of the Campus Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology. It’s a community garden with five plots, each tended by students, staffers or professors with ample light and water. The output will be vegetables and herbs, with a portion donated to NJIT’s food pantry...

YWCC Secure Database Management Researchers Publish Secure Document Storage Solutions in VLDB 2025

Friday, September 26th, 2025
Assistant Professor Shantanu Sharma and Ph.D. student Komal Kumari in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science have devised a solution to secure document systems beyond standard encryption. The research has been published in VLDB Conference (Very Large Data Bases), a premier...

NJIT Students Win First Place in International Net Zero Energy Design Competition

Thursday, September 25th, 2025
A team of NJIT architecture and urban systems students has taken first place in the 2025 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design Student Competition, one of the most competitive international student design cha...

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...

NJIT Town Hall

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Dear Highlanders, Please join us on Monday, October 6, 2025, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Central King Building's Agile Strategy Lab for our fall town hall meeting. These gatherings are important opportunities for dialog and feedback, so we highly encourage your participat...

Bjørn Jensen and Fotheringham Earn America East Male and Female Rookie of the Week

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Lasse Bjørn Jensen earned the America East Male Rookie of the Week, while Jessie Fotheringham was named the America East Female Rookie of the Week, the conference announced on Monday. Bjørn Jensen and Fotheringham are the first Highlanders in program history to win America East Rookie of ...

Ying Wu College of Computing is Honored to Announce Six New Faculty for 2025-2026

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) proudly welcomes six recently appointed assistant professors to the departments of Computer Science and Data Science for the 2025-2026 academic year. These individuals all bring unique expertise that will transform research and experiential learning during a time ...

HCAD Formalizes Career and Professional Development Support for Architecture Students

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Beginning this semester, Mark Bess, undergraduate architecture coordinator and principal at Blackberry Studios, and Tom Ogorzalek, senior lecturer and partner at Continuum Design, LLC, will formally expand the career and professional development guidance they have long provided to upper-level archit...

NJIT, with $5M from the NSF, Will Develop Robotic System to Speed Disaster Recovery

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded a cooperative agreement worth $5 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a self-assembling robotic conveyor system to improve the rebuilding of infrastructure, particularly after disasters. Inspired by the behavior of b...