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The Department of Athletics has revised the spectator policy for home athletic events for Winter 2022. All athletic events shall either be held without spectators in attendance or with limited attendance to allow for strict social distancing. All spectators ages 5 and older, must be fully vaccinated and provide proof upon entry. Masks remain required for all non-participants, in compliance with America East conference, NCAA, and NJIT guidelines. These policies are effective immediately.

The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will begin his NJIT tenure on July 1, 2022.

Miles Coleman scored 15 points after halftime on Sunday to help the NJIT men's basketball team come from behind to defeat Maine in both team's America East Conference openers at the Wellness and Events Center. Coleman finished with a game-high 23 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for his second double-double of the season as NJIT improved to 6-5 overall. The senior forward was one of five Highlanders to score at least nine points in the victory over Maine (3-9).

The NJIT women's basketball team closed out 2021 with a win, holding off defending America East Champions Stony Brook, en route to a 54-49 home victory to open league action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Thursday afternoon. NJIT, which knocked off Stony Brook, who was ranked No. 7 in the latest CollegeInside.com Mid Major Top 25 poll, recorded its sixth win of the season (the most wins since the 2018-19 season).

The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council at NJIT hosted its first event on campus encouraging students to network with invited guest speakers and industry professionals, campus support groups, faculty, staff and — importantly — each other. The monthly meeting series, Café y Conexiones, or coffee and connections, featured Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek, as well as HLLC members Angelica Ogando and Francisco Cortes.

NJIT men's lacrosse redshirt junior Eric Sherman has been named one of nine America East Winter Presidential Scholar Athletes, the conference announced Wednesday afternoon.

NJIT was again recognized as one of the safest places to study. The college topped the list of safest schools in New Jersey, according to the 2021 Safest College Campuses in America ranking by Yourlocalsecurity.com. The ranking was compiled using the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security Survey and the FBI Uniform Crime Report.

Bhargav Samineni loves applied math, and there are few better ways to see math in action than working on scientific computing problems with a mentor from a chip company like AMD. Samineni interned last summer at the University of California/Los Angeles - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, under guidance from an AMD scientific computing engineer in the application of neural networks to acoustic wave propagation, as an exercise in machine learning and a demonstration of the company's graphics processing units.

Guiling (Grace) Wang, professor and associate dean for research in Ying Wu College of Computing, was recently named an IEEE Fellow, one of the electronic technology industry's highest honors. She is the first woman to earn the honor among several male recipients at NJIT and only the second current honoree in the computing college. Most recipients are based in Newark College of Engineering, given the IEEE's focus on electrical engineering.