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 Building, Regional Tensions, Peace Processes,” will be taught by Doron Shultziner, an associate professor at Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College and visiting scholar in NJIT’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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 make their promises into reality.

“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 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 with a school record time of 1:56.90. Bartosz Bryg finished seventh with a time of 2:06.65.

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.

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.

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, with the final eight in the student and community categories giving live presentations.

More than 40,000 students attend classes in Newark, some in schools built before 1920. Repairing and maintaining those structures are massive undertakings. A project led by NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge to create digital twins of every building managed by the Newark Board of Education (BOE) is providing school administrators with the data needed to make more strategic decisions about the highest priority capital renovations.

A new student persistence effort at NJIT caters to first- and second-year undergraduates from the City of Newark and provides them with mentoring, networking and scholarly skills.The Newark Future STEM Leaders program, sponsored by The Prudential Foundation, saw about half of eligible students opt-in for the fall 2025 semester.One of them is Cindy Senat, a sophomore information systems major out of Newark’s Weequahic High School. The program taught her to advocate for herself and to not fear group participation or speaking up.

Sophomore Allison Cannon registered NJIT's first triple double in 29 years as the Highlanders earned a 71-60 home victory over visiting Lafayette Sunday afternoon in non-conference women's basketball action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center.