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NJIT Launches AI Microcredential to Drive AI Literacy, Ethical Practices

Friday, February 7th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will now offer an AI Literacy Microcredential that provides foundational knowledge and skills to thrive in an era shaped by artificial intelligence. The microcredential is designed to ensure that graduates are AI-literate, ethical in AI use and capable of le...

Highlanders Make ROI-NJ's Annual Power Lists

Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Fifteen Highlanders from New Jersey Institute of Technology are featured in ROI-NJ’s annual lists of the most powerful individuals in New Jersey. Five of the honorees made the publication’s Super 75 list: President Teik C. Lim; Trustee Gary Dahms; Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council member Luis De L...

Women's Tennis Tops FDU, 5-2, to Remain Perfect at Home

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
The NJIT women's tennis team recorded a 5-2 victory over visiting FDU Sunday morning inside The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. NJIT, which remains undefeated at home, standing at 2-0 and 2-2 overall, won five out of the six singles matches to earn the 5-2 home victory. FDU took ...

Men's Tennis Rolls Past Fordham for Fifth Straight Sweep

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
The NJIT men's tennis team picked up its fifth straight win to open the season with a 7-0 victory over Fordham on Sunday afternoon. The Highlanders have won each of their five matches this season by 7-0 finals. NJIT captured wins in all three doubles matches, with Soma Fukuhara and S...

Ahmad ALBarqawi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - February 2025

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Ahmad ALBarqawi is a Ph.D. student specializing in machine learning and security, with a primary focus on deepfakes. His research aims to develop robust detection models that can withstand adversarial attacks and generalize effectively across different generative models. Deepfake technology has...

Estudiante de fintech establece la sección de NJIT de asociación nacional de profesionales latinos

Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Durante su niñez en Union City, Shanell Encalada ’26 hablaba español en casa con sus padres, ayudándolos a traducir documentos importantes. Ella destaca que su bilingüismo ha mejorado su currículum y le ha permitido hacer amistades en los diversos trabajos que ha tenido. Encalada, estudiante de tecn...

Fintech Major Leads NJIT Chapter Founding of National Latino Professional Association

Monday, February 3rd, 2025
Growing up in Union City, Shanell Encalada ’26 spoke Spanish at home with her parents, helping them out by translating important documents. She points out that her bilingualism has enhanced her resume and allowed her to gain friendships in the various jobs she’s had. Encalada, a fintech major at the...

NJIT Engineer Tara Alvarez Wins First Place in an International Patent Competition

Friday, January 31st, 2025
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, won first place in the inaugural Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU) / National Academy of Inventors (NAI) International Patent Award competition. Her patented technology, branded as VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vi...

Most Facebook News Links Are Unread by Users Sharing Them, Study Finds

Thursday, January 30th, 2025
What are the odds Facebook users read the news articles they end up sharing with the rest of the world? Only one in four, according to a recent study of our news sharing behavior spanning almost a full U.S. election cycle, which was published in Nature Human Behaviour. The study, which applied adv...

3D Wound Tracking System Wins Best Innovation Award at Health Care Technology Conference

Thursday, January 30th, 2025
A new 360-degree perspective on wound care has already attracted attention from the health care industry, and Assistant Professor Salam Daher and Dahlia Musa Ph.D. ’25 from NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing have a goal to further develop a 3D graphics simulation tool to patent it for commercial us...