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The NJIT men's basketball team won for the fourth time in five games on Saturday, defeating host Florida Gulf Coast 56-54 in ASUN Conference action in front of 2,843 at Alico Arena. NJIT (7-13, 4-3 ASUN) scored the first 10 points of the game and never trailed, but FGCU (6-16, 3-4 ASUN) was able to claw back and tie the game on three occasions in the second half.

The NJIT men's volleyball team won its third straight match of the season, sweeping visiting Ball State, 3-0, Saturday evening in men's volleyball non-conference action at NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. The win over Ball State marks the third straight win for NJIT, who have won the last four-out-of-five matches, improving to 4-2 overall. The win over the Cardinals marks the first all-time win against Ball State.

NJIT combined for a .452 hitting percentage behind Jens Feldthus and Alvaro Gimeno who combined for 24 kills and 14 digs in the Highlanders' 3-0 sweep over No. 11 Purdue Fort Wayne in non-conference men's volleyball action at NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Thursday evening.

They came, they competed and, at day’s end, they convened, to learn the results of the 2020 New Jersey Science Olympiad, hosted on campus Jan. 6 by NJIT for the 14th consecutive year. Hundreds of students making up 43 teams from high schools and middle schools from throughout the Garden State put their knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the test in 19 hands-on activities.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has once again lauded William V. Rapp, the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Trade and Business and director of the Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, for his economic forecasting acumen.

Durgamadhab Misra is the newest member of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Misra won the prestigious award for his ongoing research on preventing transistors from leaking electrons. Every time a transistor leaks an electron, it wastes battery life or hurts performance.

The NJIT men's volleyball team returned back to the win column, behind sophomore Roque Nido's double-double (38 assists, 10 digs) and three players reaching double-figure kills in the Highlanders' 3-1 victory at Lindenwood Saturday evening in men's volleyball non-conference action at Hyland Arena.

Patrycja Ptak, a second-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, vividly recalls the uncertainty she felt and challenges she faced navigating the college pathway — which is why she decided to become a mentor through Strive for College, an online platform that provides resources and support to aspiring and current first-generation college students, and with which NJIT is a strategic partner.

Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun’s surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather conditions at Earth. These were the first flares to be captured, in their moment-by-moment progression, by NJIT’s then recently opened Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) radio telescope.