New Jersey Institute of Technology will award more than 3,500 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at its 107th commencement across two days of celebration. The university also will award three honorary degrees and welcome guest speakers. Visit https://commencement.njit.edu/ for all the details. Undergraduate Ceremony WHEN: Friday, May 19 at 9 a.m. (Doors open at 7:30 a.m.) WHERE: Prudential Center, 25 Lafayette St., Newark  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Kim Hanemann, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. Before ascending to COO in January 2020, she held numerous…

Students at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have again achieved an impressive amount of prestigious awards this year with 11 students earning nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Their achievement continues NJIT run, with Highlanders amassing 34 of these awards in the past three years. The increased achievements are not by chance. NJIT students have always had the opportunity to apply, and their proficiencies and experiences have long been sufficient. Rather, the increase is due in large part to the university and the Albert Dorman Honors College allocating…

Dr. Teik C. Lim was installed as NJIT’s ninth president in a ceremony that welcomed students, alumni, faculty, staff, elected officials, family and friends to NJIT’s Wellness and Event Center. “The inauguration of a new president is a milestone occasion in the life of any institution of higher education – and NJIT is certainly no exception,” said Mistress of Ceremonies Marybeth Boger, vice president for student affairs and dean of students. “Today’s ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate our university’s history and heritage, to reaffirm the uniqueness of our mission and to highlight our…

Innovation, collaboration, legislation and recognizing the implications of our actions are key to achieving sustainability, according to Shawn LaTourette, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. LaTourette, speaking at a sustainability symposium at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, rejected the notion that safeguarding the environment conflicts with economic development. Rather, he sees a symbiotic relationship between nature and humans, with an investment in one benefitting the other. What’s more, he added, environmental justice must be integral to…

Some of NJIT’s brightest up-and-coming researchers grabbed center stage on campus at the Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, a springtime tradition that continues to highlight student ingenuity and diverse research accomplishments across the university’s six colleges. For participants of the 18th annual research competition, it was a special opportunity to connect with the campus community by discussing their recent discoveries and innovations, most of which have been years in the making. “The Dana Knox Student Research Showcase provides us with an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the…

NJIT Assistant Professor of Physics Junjie Yang has won a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER Award to explore the unusual properties of quantum materials that hold the potential to propel the next generation of smaller, more energy-efficient electronic devices. The CAREER Award is among NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Approximately 500 awards are issued each year nationally. As part of his five-year…

Undergraduates Nora Mahgoub ’25 and Victoria Pirog ’25 are already solving complex ethical dilemmas of today’s engineering world, and doing so on a grand stage, as the first NJIT students to compete at Lockheed Martin’s annual Ethics in Engineering Competition. Mahgoub and Pirog recently joined other two-student teams from more than 70 U.S. colleges and universities at Lockheed Martin’s fifth annual case competition, held at its Center for Leadership Excellence in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 27 through March 1. The bracket-style, head-to-head competition, described by organizers as “compelling…

As baseball fans gear up for MLB’s Opening Day and the marathon of another 162-game season, new modeling predictions of NJIT mathematics professor Bruce Bukiet have already divined the winners and losers when the dust settles on the final day of the 2023 season in October. America’s pastime has always been a game obsessed with numbers, and Bukiet, an associate dean at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, is no different — he has been his applying statistical models to forecast the MLB’s league standings with commendable accuracy for 25 years. Bukiet says his mathematical models have…

How can we prevent artificial intelligence from exacerbating systemic discrimination and leverage it as a force for good to promote social and environmental justice? Policy experts from organizations such as the Innocence Project, prominent data scientists and others will discuss the profound, but often silent role of AI in our lives at “Women Designing the Future: Artificial Intelligence/Real Human Lives,” an upcoming conference hosted by the Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Come interact with innovative scientists and social activists who are…

New Jersey Institute of Technology has again earned a spot on The Princeton Review’s top 50 undergraduate schools for game design in the 2023 rankings. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on its 2022 survey of administrators at 150 institutions across the U.S. and abroad offering game design courses, majors, or degree programs. The survey collected information in four areas: academics, faculty, technology, and career prospects. The company analyzed more than 40 survey data points to tally the rankings. “NJIT offers a comprehensive game design curriculum, whether it’s creating…