News

NJIT has been selected second in the 2021 Preseason Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Coaches' Poll, according to the conference coaches the league office announced on Monday. The Highlanders stood at 9-5 overall, 4-3 in the EIVA, when play was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. NJIT returns all seven starters led by Alvaro Gimeno, who shared Co-Player of the Year honors in the EIVA.

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.

Associate Professor Stephan Kudyba teaches business analytics and management information systems in NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. He recently published an article, "COVID-19 and the Acceleration of Digital Transformation and the Future of Work" in Information Systems Management. Following are his additional comments for the NJIT community, lightly edited. Q. How do you define digital transformation?

Senior captain San Antonio Brinson continued his impressive season on Saturday afternoon as he helped lead the NJIT men's basketball team to a 73-67 America East conference victory against host UMass Lowell at the Costello Athletic Center.

In a game that lasted 50 minutes, it was a put-back layup in the final tenth of a second that made the difference. San Antonio Brinson's buzzer-beating layup put NJIT ahead for good as the Highlanders earned their inaugural America East Conference victory over defending league champions and preseason favorite Vermont on Monday at Patrick Gymnasium.

Redshirt junior Kimi Evans scored a career-best 20 points and nine rebounds, leading NJIT to a 70-60 America East Conference victory over Vermont in women's basketball action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

Yashwee J. Kothari, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Parsippany, placed first among student competitors at this year’s New Business Model Competition for her innovative work supporting patients living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual competition was hosted virtually by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Acceleration Center Dec. 7, marking its twelfth year.

NJIT’s online MBA program continues to earn national accolades. After being recognized as one of the Best Online MBA Programs by U.S. News and World Report, NJIT’s online MBA in management information systems has been ranked No. 1 by Master’s Programs Guide.

NJIT @JerseyCity celebrated the graduation of its first group of master’s students, with four students earning their Master of Science in Data Science at the end of the fall semester this week. While a typical part-time M.S. program takes five semesters to complete, including a full summer semester, these students raced ahead to complete the program in just four semesters.

An open-source tool that cryptographically protects the layout of your software code supply chain is now available from researchers at NJIT, New York University and Purdue University, bolstering the type of weakness exploited in the recent cyberattack on the commercial SolarWinds monitoring application used by the U.S. government.