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NJIT is starting the 2021 academic year by setting records with its largest and most diverse student body ever. Total enrollment is up 25% over the last 10 years and this fall hit its highest mark yet at 11,901 students. The NJIT first-year class makes up a sizable part of that growth, with 25% more freshmen enrolled this year than last year, for a record 1,411 students. The largest ever first-year class also has the most female students at 29%. First-year enrollment totals for both men (1,005) and women (406) are the highest in NJIT’s history.

WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2025 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 3 p.m. WHERE: NJIT's Wellness and Events Center (WEC)

New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks in the top quarter of U.S. universities and colleges in the The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2022.

Nearly half of adolescents and young adults with lingering symptoms of concussion suffer from an eye coordination disorder that causes blurred and double vision, headaches and difficulties concentrating. There is no proven method for treating the condition when it occurs after a head injury.

NJIT Assistant Professor Steve Taylor, of Millburn, is dissatisfied with how insurance companies deal with natural disasters and is preparing to offer an alternative. Taylor witnessed extreme flooding from Hurricane Ida early this month in Millburn, where he resides. He also saw that many of his neighbors and local small business owners had their claims denied, despite being loyal customers of their insurance companies, as they lacked flood policies. Some had been advised by insurance agents that it wasn't a flood zone, based on data and maps that became obsolete decades ago.

Two leaders at New Jersey Institute of Technology made NJBIZ’s list of the 2021 Education Power 50: President Joel S. Bloom and Simon Nynes, CEO of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII). The annual list recognizes the most impactful and influential educational leaders in New Jersey.

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Junior Alejandro Rabell scored a pair of goals, including the golden goal in overtime in NJIT's thrilling 2-1 America East Conference victory at home against UMass Lowell on Saturday at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

For a pioneering invention that enables doctors to use light to look beneath the outer layer of the skin to detect diseases such as early-stage skin cancers, NJIT’s Atam Dhawan was tapped this year to receive one of IEEE’s preeminent honors, the Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) William J. Morlock Award.

Governor Phil Murphy and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) today announced the NJEDA’s participation in four regional coalitions preparing applications for the U.S. Economic Development Authority (U.S. EDA) Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC).