NJIT’s Education Opportunity Program (EOP) recently hosted a marquee conference with over 100 attendees that brought together students, alumni and industry leaders. The conference featured speakers, panel discussions and Q&As regarding challenges and opportunities in the modern workplace and ways to provide benefits for first-generation college students.

The NJIT men's volleyball team won its second straight 3-0 EIVA Conference men's volleyball sweep Saturday afternoon, defeating visiting Harvard inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. With the win, NJIT moves to 13-8 overall, 8-4 in the EIVA. The 13 wins for NJIT matches last seasons win-out while the eight wins sits the Highlanders in second in the league.

The NJIT baseball team split a doubleheader with UMass Lowell on Saturday, dropping game one 12-1, before coming back to win game two 7-5 to clinch the three-game America East series at Jim Hynes Stadium. The Highlanders (12-11) have now won all three America East series this season and sit tied for first place in the conference with a 7-2 league record. UML drops to 8-16 on the season and 3-6 in America East action. Game One | UML 12, NJIT 1

Sports provide an everyman's opportunity to explain statistical analysis, and the rejuvenated NJIT Data Science Club is all-in. The club already has more than a dozen members and is led by action-hungry graduate students Jake Byford and Parth Patel, president and vice president respectively, who both stepped up when most members of the previous Machine Learning Club graduated last year.

Dick Sweeney, the Highlander alumnus and engineer who made Keurig coffee machines feasible, visited NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College last week for his first meet-and-greet with students since the COVID pandemic. Sweeney graduated with an industrial management degree in 1982 after several years of taking night classes and attributed his success to persistence, good luck and constantly hiring smart people. He is chair emeritus of the Honors College Board of Visitors.

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003. The 2023 rankings mark the seventh consecutive year NJIT has appeared in the top 100.

From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Simone Bishara and Vishva Rana, both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as among the country’s most prestigious for STEM undergraduates pursuing research careers.

The NJIT baseball team trailed 5-0 early and 10-9 late against UAlbany on Saturday, but the Highlanders came from behind and eventually earned a 12-10 victory to complete the three-game America East Conference series sweep of the Great Danes. NJIT has now won four straight and seven of its last eight to improve to 10-9 on the season and 5-1 in conference play. The Great Danes, who came into the weekend with an impressive 11-5 record, are now 11-8 on the season and 2-4 in America East action.

Reflect for a moment on how you'd manage your terabyte-scale hard drive if the data were literally one million times bigger. Then you'd be working with exabytes, which is the reality for supercomputer users at federal laboratories across the country, one of which is relying on Assistant Professor Qing Liu to mitigate their information storage problems by studying new methods of data reduction.

NJIT has landed some unexpected residents recently, and they’ll be getting plenty of “airtime” as they settle into their new home. In fact, they’ll have their own channel where you can check them (and their new crib) out, 24/7. Two red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) have begun a rare urban nest on a sixth-story ledge of the campus’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) Residence Hall on Colden Street.