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As Industrial Robots Become Autonomous, NJIT Helps Keep Them Connected

Friday, December 12th, 2025
Robots are becoming increasingly mobile and autonomous in busy factories and warehouses, so researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and four other universities are working out how to keep electronic employees aware of wifi networks at all times.The team is betting on the success of smart r...

150+ Honors Scholars Showcase Findings at Interdisciplinary Research Forum

Friday, December 12th, 2025
Students from Albert Dorman Honors College’s courses – Introduction to Research Writing, Introduction to Research Methods, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology and Urban Transformation and Introduction to Sustainability Studies – presented their semester's research during the Honors...

NJIT ‘Highlander Gateway Scholarship’ Offsets Out-of-State Tuition for Top Students from NY and PA

Thursday, December 11th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the launch of the Highlander Gateway Scholarship, a significant new scholarship program designed to expand educational access for talented first-time, full-time undergraduate students from New York and Pennsylvania.Beginning with the incoming f...

New Course to Give Students Deeper Insights into Middle East Conflicts

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
This spring, NJIT students will have the opportunity to gain a richer picture of the complex history and politics of the Middle East that continue to shape today’s headlines, drive foreign policy debates and affect global stability.A new course opening next semester, “Middle East Conflicts: State Bu...

Future Cellular Networks Could Reach Top Speed with Help from NJIT Professor

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Sixth-generation mobile networks arriving in the 2030s will connect your smart devices by dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the data rates of today, and those networks might employ important research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and the State University of New York - Buffalo to...

For Students in NJIT Library Hackathon, There are Maps to the Stacks

Monday, December 8th, 2025
“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.The winning team, announced D...

ECAC Runners-Up! Swimming and Diving Places Second at the ECAC Championships

Monday, December 8th, 2025
The NJIT swimming and diving team placed second with 1,599 points at the ECAC Championships this weekend at the Nassau County Aquatic Center. The Highlanders clinched 18 spots in the finals, including five A-finalists, five B-finalists, and eight C-finalists. Borys Endle won the 200 breast...

4 Highlanders Score in Double-Figures as NJIT Tops Visiting Manhattan

Monday, December 8th, 2025
Four Highlanders scored in double-figures led by sophomore transfer Ava Locklear's team-high 18 points in NJIT's 71-54 home victory over visiting Manhattan Sunday afternoon in women's basketball non-conference action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center.With the win, ...

YWCC Expands K–12 Computing and Math Outreach Across Newark

Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. Several NJIT...

NJIT Student Turns Stone into Art, Wins 2025 Business Model Competition

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Yusuf Karyagdi is building a business to upcycle leftover material from his father’s stone fabrication company into high-end artwork — and in turn taking first place, plus a $3,000 check, in the student category at NJIT’s 2025 New Business Model Competition.About 100 people entered the competition, ...