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Students who study computing teamed with those in digital design from Jan. 29-31 at Global Game Jam, a hackathon for video game development, which was virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. About three dozen entrants spanning five teams completed the challenge to finish a game in 48 hours, with some teams also including alumni and students from other universities, said Julian Quinn, the lead event organizer, who is a junior information technology major in Ying Wu College of Computing.

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NJIT swept the EIVA weekend series from Sacred Heart with its second consecutive 3-0 victory behind a match-best 13 kills by sophomore Julian Meissner Friday evening inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT (2-2, 2-0 EIVA) picked up a 3-0 win on Thursday evening and followed up with a 3-0 victory on Friday in straight sets -- 25-19, 25-13 and 25-16.

NJIT senior forward Rene White was selected in the third round of the 2021 Major League Soccer SuperDraft by Real Salt Lake. White becomes the second Highlander to be drafted to the MLS in the last four years after Mamadou Guirassy was drafted by the Portland Timbers in the fourth round selection in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.

Student clubs come and go, but right now the Highlander chapter of NOMAS — National Organization of Minority Architecture Students — is being primed for a comeback, according to faculty advisor Mark Bess, a university lecturer in Hillier College of Architecture and Design since 2004.

Encompassing everything from electric cars, meatless diets and the compostable cups we find at Starbucks, to big ideas of economic and social equality, the catch-all buzzword “sustainability” has taken on a life of its own over the past few decades — but what does it mean today?

Artificial intelligence software used in everything from cancer research to vehicle navigation sometimes relies on unreliable data-sorting algorithms that can lead to serious real-world problems, but an NJIT expert is working on new ways to identify the causes and find possible solutions.

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NJIT Highlights Postgame Interview w/ Head Coach Brian Kennedy and San Antonio Brinson Postgame Interview w/ Assistant Coach Joe Gutowski

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