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These 3 NJIT Students Are Now 2019 Governor's STEM Scholars

Monday, February 11th, 2019
Every year, hundreds of high school and college students throughout the Garden State apply for the honor to be a Governor’s STEM Scholar. Slots are limited and the competition is steep. For 2019, three Highlanders have been chosen to wear the mantle: Ricardo Garcia, Yasmine Ghattas and Kevin Pember...

Career Fairs, Job Tips and Employment Trends: An Expert's View - Part 2

Friday, February 8th, 2019
The Wellness and Events Center at NJIT will be buzzing with recruitment activity Feb. 13 when employers and jobseekers convene for the Spring 2019 Career Fair. Gregory Mass, executive director of the university’s Career Development Services, noted that the 200 or so employers attending have been reg...

Dispelling Popular "CSI" Myths With NJIT's David Fisher

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
In 2012, CBS’s crime-fiction television drama, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” reached the zenith of primetime television ratings. That year, the show’s estimated 63 million viewers across five continents earned it the title of “most watched television show in the world” for the fifth time in the ...

NJIT Hosts Game Development Marathon for Global Game Jam

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Nearly 100 budding game designers pulled all-nighters at NJIT for the Eleventh Annual Global Game Jam (GGJ) in what has become a much anticipated event for both design and information technology students. Organized in 2008, GGJ, an international nonprofit corporation based in California, is th...

Women's Track and Field's Shannon Turner Selected as NJAIAW Woman of the Year

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Senior Shannon Turner of women's track and field was NJIT's recipient of the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (NJAIAW) Woman of the Year award. Turner was among the guests of honor at the 27th Annual NJAIAW Woman of the Year luncheon held at Seton Hall University S...

Women's Tennis Edges LIU Brooklyn In 4-3 Thriller

Monday, February 4th, 2019
The NJIT women's tennis team passed their toughest test of 2019, holding off the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds for a 4-3 victory Sunday evening at the Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. NJIT improved to 4-0 on the season, giving the Highlanders their best start to a season since 2011 and ...

Men's Fencing Goes Undefeated at Eric Sollee MIT Fencing Invitational, Women Finish 4-2

Monday, February 4th, 2019
The NJIT men's fencing team went undefeated at the Eric Sollee MIT Fencing Invitational while the NJIT women went 4-2 Sunday afternoon. The NJIT men, winners of seven straight, move to 13-5 overall on the season while the NJIT women, put together a strong performance, stand at 8-6 on the year. The...

Career Fairs, Job Tips and Employment Trends: An Expert's View - Part 1

Friday, February 1st, 2019
“We have something for everyone!” declared Career Development Services (CDS) Executive Director Gregory Mass about the NJIT Spring 2019 Career Fair, to be held Feb. 13 at the university’s Wellness and Events Center. Indeed, the upcoming fair will feature some 200 employers — a gathering carefully c...

NJIT Hits Season Best Five-Game Winning Streak Over FGCU

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The NJIT Highlanders (18-5, 6-2 ASUN) defeated Florida Gulf Coast (8-15, 3-5 ASUN) at the Wellness and Events Center on Wednesday, 66-54. The win extended NJIT's winning streak to a season-best five as the Highlanders snatched their first win over the reigning ASUN regular season champions since 20...

Biosensor Co-Inventor Bharath Nunna Ph.D. '18 Joins Organ-on-a-Chip Research Team at Harvard Med

Thursday, January 31st, 2019
The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few symptoms. With a novel electrochemical biosensing device that identifies the tiniest signals these biomarkers em...