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Haylee Merola, 4th year interior design student at NJIT, is the undergraduate winner of the 2022 NEWH (Network of Executive Women in Hospitality) Green Voice Design Competition.

NJIT was a host site for an international delegation addressing challenges and identifying opportunities in education, workforce preparation, entrepreneurship and infrastructure arising from digitalization.

Taro Narahara, associate professor at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won a National Science Foundation I-Corps award for the development of flexible and intuitive design tools for multifamily residential housing. This project proposes a platform for users to visually study possible housing complex designs and their potential performance in energy use intensity, environmental and some financial criteria based on preliminary sketches drawn by users.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine.

A U.S.-based team of scientists joined by NJIT biologist Eric Fortune is inching closer to the $10 million XPRIZE Rainforest Competition’s grand prize for improving our understanding of rainforest ecosystems, having recently been named semifinalists.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has tapped David E. Jones, a leading voice for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in higher education, to become its first chief diversity officer.

New kinds of unconventional computer hardware, along with new ways of considering software responsibility, are both necessary if the next wave of data science will do anything more useful for the world than increase corporate profits.

Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to nine months of additional post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, up to $30,000. Recipients must be enrolled in a STEM degree program or seeking a teaching certificate.

NJIT Women's Basketball debuted a new series on Friday, "T'ed Up With Trinity Williams," featuring the Highlanders' second-year forward from Upper Black Eddy, PA.

The head of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design is teaching the basics of energy management to a group of more than two dozen staffers from state agencies. The staffers serve as energy managers at some 15 state entities and have different levels of expertise. As such, Deane Evans, executive director of the center, uses hands-on, interactive assignments that encourage knowledge-sharing and networking among peers.