Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018. She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing.

NJIT freshman goalkeeper Samuel Reisgys has been selected ASUN Conference Defensive Player of the Week the conference office announced on Monday. The 6-foot-3 goalkeeper picks up his third career Defensive Player of the Week honor after posting a clean sheet on Saturday in the Highlanders 2-0 win over visiting North Florida in ASUN action.

NJIT's Gerald Cubero and Regsan Watkins registered goals for NJIT and Samuel Reisgys picked up his fourth shutout in the Highlanders 2-0 home victory over visiting North Florida in ASUN Conference action at L

NJIT is one of six higher education partners in New Jersey awarded federal funding over the next seven years, from the U.S. Department of Education, for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). Here in Newark, the university’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) administers GEAR UP, which provides academic enrichment opportunities to economically disadvantaged middle and high school students with the aim to improve their college attendance and success.

Oct. 9, 2019 – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced it is now offering a new way for students to connect with scholarship opportunities through the launch of ScholarshipUniverse — a “state-of-the-art digital scholarship-matching system aimed toward maximizing funding for students.”

They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding of the world of entrepreneurship.

NJIT redshirt junior Rene White scored a pair of goals and became NJIT's Division I All-Time scoring leader with 28 goals as the Highlanders shutout visiting VMI, 5-0, in non-conference men's soccer action on Homecoming Weekend at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win.

Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay. Visit a vendor at a farmers market and you’ll find many accept credit or debit cards using an attachment on their smartphone from Square or Clover.

MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award.