As a major in architecture or any other field, you absolutely must learn computer programming and other high technology to be a compelling job applicant in the 2020s, implored Sarah Almukhtar, a Hiller College of Architecture and Design alumna ('10, B.Arch.) who spoke here last night about her data visualization work for The New York Times.

Jenan Abu-Hakmeh’s dream career is in law and public policy, and the May 2019 graduate has got it all mapped out. An Albert Dorman Honors College alumna who majored in business with concentrations in finance and international business and minored in legal studies, she plans to attend law school, practice in the field for several years and then work perhaps as a lobbyist or in a governmental capacity.

In the 10th annual Military Friendly® Schools list, NJIT has been awarded a “Bronze” distinction, exceeding in all six rating categories: academic policies and compliance, admission and orientation, culture and commitment, financial aid and assistance, graduation and career, and military student support and retention.

Leaders of NJIT's esports team, which is among the most successful collegiate videogame groups in the region and one of the top programs nationwide at games such as Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch, said they see the next few years as a time of critical evolution for their two-year-old club and for their field overall.

The NJIT baseball team scored early and often on Sunday en route to a 17-5 victory in the final contest of a three-game series hosted by Longwood this weekend. The teams split the first two games of the series before the Highlanders earned a decisive victory in Sunday's rubber match. NJIT (4-3) scored four runs in the top of the first to take control and broke the game open with an eight-run sixth, which increased the lead to 14-2 over the Lancers (2-6).

The NJIT women's tennis team immediately bounced back from Friday's loss at St. John's to earn a 4-3 victory over Army West Point Saturday evening at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center. The Highlanders (6-3) lost the doubles point but were able to secure the win by taking four of the six singles flights, all in straight sets.

As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences were in for plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater.

Choose New Jersey, a nonprofit organization advocating for business investments in the Garden State, included an NJIT representative in its delegation visit to Israel this month.

NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7.

Joel S. Bloom, president of NJIT, and Donald H. Sebastian, president and chief innovation officer of New Jersey Innovation Institute, have again each earned a spot on The Power 100, NJBIZ’s annual ranking of the most powerful people in New Jersey business.