New Jersey Institute of Technology has accepted an invitation from the Southland Conference and will join the NCAA Division I league as an associate member in the sports of men's and women's tennis, effective for the 2021-22 academic year. "We are very happy to welcome NJIT tennis to the Southland, and we look forward to providing the Highlanders' men's and women's teams with an outstanding NCAA postseason experience," Southland Commissioner Tom Burnett said.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is extending its partnership with HackerU to launch three additional career-prep bootcamps in UI/UX Design, Full-Stack Development, and Data Science and Analytics. These accelerated, non-credit training programs are designed to meet the needs of working professionals, offering flexible weekend and evening course schedules.

Three teams of student engineers are showcasing their applied research this week at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Student Design Expo, as they vie for a second round of funding from the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet program, which aims to spur new systems and technologies that advance sustainability.

Ying Wu College of Computing at its NJIT @JerseyCity location will offer new master's degrees in information systems and business information systems this fall, to meet demand from local technology professionals for graduate-level education. The new degrees will bring the number of master’s programs offered at NJIT @JerseyCity to five. The location also offers five graduate certificate programs.

Sabastian Fernandes, a writer for NJIT's Vector student newspaper, is the winner of a prestigious Society of Professional Journalists award for his Oct. 10, 2020 review of video games as a means of maintaining human bonds during the COVID pandemic.

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The NJIT baseball program added to its historic, record-breaking season on Wednesday when seniors Jake Rappaport and Julio Marcano were named the program's first ABCA All-Region honorees since the Highlanders moved to Division I prior to the 2007 season.

NJIT executives officially broke ground yesterday for the new residence hall on Warren Street, scheduled to open in the fall 2022 semester at the site of a former Newark elementary school. Amenities will include private kitchens, bicycle storage, a parking garage, creative space, indoor and outdoor cafes, game room and a grass courtyard. It will be constructed with a focus on environmentally-friendly methods and materials.

The date is May 11, 2004. The TV sitcom Friends just aired the finale of its 10th and final season, Usher’s hit single "Yeah!" is giving way to Maroon 5’s “This Love” atop the Billboard Top 100 and Massachusetts is about to become the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. But lurking under the ground, a seismic event in the insect world was also happening.

Public safety officers at NJIT will soon receive the next generation of body cams, all paid by a $85K grant from the state. The university purchased its first batch in 2016, then again in 2019. Now, the state is picking up the tab. The department will also migrate data storage to an off-site server for faster and more convenient access to body cam footage. Meanwhile, department vehicles, already outfitted with traffic-oriented cameras on top, will be retrofitted with interior cameras that will capture a 360-degree view.