The 2022 Homecoming festivities at New Jersey Institute of Technology welcomed students, parents and alumni to an event-packed weekend that featured music, food, culture and plenty of Highlander spirit. Homecoming kicked off Oct. 6 with a concert by Kenny Beats at the Wellness and Events Center. On Saturday Oct.8, the festivities included a BBQ and beer garden, carnival, a magic show by Mark Zacharia, a Hispanic Heritage Celebration that included a mariachi performance and closed with the men’s soccer team hosting New Hampshire.

Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes. Developed by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Murray Turoff back in 1976, EIES is considered among the first computer-mediated, multimachine communications and conferencing systems, and a precursor to the widespread interactive communication features available today.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has bestowed on NJIT alumna General (retired) Ellen M. Pawlikowski the 2022 Arthur M. Bueche Award. Pawlikowski joins distinguished professor Louis Lanzerotti as the second Highlander to receive the award.

Join NJIT President Teik C. Lim as he gets a first-hand look at NJIT's newest residence building, Maple Hall. Maple Hall, the new apartment-style residential building at NJIT, officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 29. The building has extensive amenities such as a well-equipped outdoor terrace, a videogame room, sustainable construction, numerous single rooms, kitchens with modern appliances, Manhattan skyline views and its own parking garage.

For the second time this year, NJIT women's soccer has picked up an America East weekly award in back-to-back weeks.

S&P Global Ratings has raised its financial outlook on New Jersey Institute of Technology, based on a “firmer enrollment trend and expectations of improved financial operating performance,” the rating agency said. NJIT’s outlook is now “stable,” while the university’s long-term credit rating remains “A.”

Participation in a summer program that brings Newark middle-schoolers to the campus of NJIT to introduce them to public safety officers and learn the finer points of policing has more than tripled in its first three years, leading organizers to consider launching second program for high school students.

Transitioning back from a world of COVID lockdowns and restrictions has meant something different for everyone, but for Denise Richard and the Peace Corps, a “return to normal” will soon mean resuming humanitarian efforts more than 7,000 miles away in Africa. This month, the NJIT alumna is joining the first wave of Peace Corps volunteers to restart overseas service since the agency’s global evacuation at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The NJIT Athletics Department continues to show its commitment to the health, wellness, and overall experience for its student-athletes with the unveiling of the brand new NJIT Highlanders fueling station.

NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management offers one of the best MBA programs in the nation, according to a new ranking from Fortune. Earning a master's of business administration degree at New Jersey Institute of Technology differs from the pack because of the university-wise focus on research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.