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There's Musk-level hype about autonomous vehicles, and then there's NJIT Associate Professor Joyoung Lee working through painstaking and vital research of how self-driving systems should behave at stop lights. He studies transportation systems as a whole, not self-driving cars specifically, but his current research makes traffic lights broadcast their intentions so artificially intelligent vehicles can decide whether to brake, maintain speed or accelerate — as the function of a yellow light is to clear the intersection, not make you screech to a halt.

The NJIT men's volleyball team earned a 3-1 EIVA Conference home victory over St. Francis Brooklyn on Senior Night Friday evening inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

Ryan Fischer took the mound for the fifth time in America East Conference action this spring and improved to 5-0 in those starts as the NJIT baseball team cruised to a 8-2 victory over visiting UMBC at Jim Hynes Stadium. The Highlanders (15-13, 9-4 AE) scored the first five runs of the game and relied on their ace to defeat UMBC (14-19, 5-8 AE) for the ninth-consecutive time.

Scholarships enabled Jennifer Cabral and Dominic Bosi to overcome financial hurdles and study science and engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Cabral and Bosi are both first-generation students from working-class families. As such, they needed help to afford college. Generous donors supplied that, and once enrolled, they found their callings and are pursuing them with passion.

City officials and community leaders hosted a “Rock the Vote” event at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center, complete with a DJ, dance competition, artists, rappers and — most importantly — voter registration forms. Droves of students from the Newark area were able to take an afternoon off from their normal coursework and register to vote with the upcoming Newark municipal elections being held May 10, 2022, with a deadline to register April 19.

Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) transformed its gallery and packed its lecture hall for the college’s highly-anticipated signature event that celebrated student and alumni work, and hosted a presentation and Q&A by architect Andrew Whalley, chairman of Grimshaw.

Capstone projects, done in collaboration with companies, are a requirement for every senior in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), but two teams of students have exceeded expectations with a pair of solutions that Bank of America (BofA) counts as more than class projects.

GirlHacks, an annual event produced by NJIT's Women In Computing Society, partially returned to campus this spring and continued emphasizing its openness to minorities rather than only females. The event, in which most entrants develop mobile applications, was last held virtually in October 2020 when COVID was a major theme.

The NJIT track and field teams traveled back to Icahn Stadium in full force on Saturday for the final day of the Metropolitan Outdoor Championships.The two-day meet ended with the Highlander women taking seventh place overall (40 pts) and the Highlander men placing eighth (45 points). SCORING BREAKDOWN Women

NJIT’s student newspaper, The Vector, continues making its journalistic voice heard — the paper is the recipient of several awards from U.S. college media contests recently. The Vector was named the Corbin Gwaltney Award winner for “Best All-Around Student Newspaper” (among large universities) at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards, beating out competition from the likes of Hofstra University and Boston College.