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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.

Led by the members of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, the Airport City Newark (ACN) coalition recently received a fourth round of funding from the Prudential Foundation to further investigate the feasibility of their Aerotropolis concept, a transit-oriented development in the vicinity of the Newark International Airport. Geographically, the primary beneficiary of the proposed redevelopment will be the South Ward in the City of Newark. It is a strategy that promotes reshaping cities around the changing nature of air transport and global digital communication.

NJIT has been ranked the top school in New Jersey for students to study game design, according to Animation Career Review. NJIT also reached No. 20 for schools in the East.

Libby Washburn, Special Assistant to the President for Native Affairs at the White House, will be the keynote speaker at the conference, Women Designing an Environmentally Just Future, to be held on the NJIT campus and virtually on March 25. The conference will focus on the communities hit first and hardest by climate change and environmental degradation, while highlighting the work of local leaders to reverse the damage.

Grant Vurpillat tossed eight shutout innings on Saturday to lead the NJIT baseball team to a 5-0 victory over visiting Hartford in America East Conference action at Jim Hynes Stadium.

Junior Julian Meissner registered a career-best 31 kills to lead No. 15 NJIT in a 3-2 five set thriller over Charleston Saturday afternoon in EIVA Conference men's volleyball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

NJIT's Information Services and Technology help desk is relocating to Van Houten Library, which should give users a more constructive experience. The move is happening in the next few weeks, mutually motivated by IST's desire for a prominent, more modern facility and the library's role as a 21st-century technology hub.