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NJIT Alum Named a Global Climate Innovator for Groundbreaking Battery Recycling Technology

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
Chao Yan, a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) alumnus and co-founder of Princeton NuEnergy, has been named one of Business Insider’s Climate Action 15 for 2024 — a list highlighting global leaders deploying innovative solutions to combat the climate crisis.  The 15 honorees are trailbl...

Two Research Papers on Mitigating Potential Security Flaws in LLMs Presented at ACM CCS 2024

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
Ph.D. candidates Nhi N Nguyen, Mahmoud Nazzal and Khiem Ton recently presented two papers at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024) that could aid future breakthroughs in improving the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) when generating code. The resea...

Allison Cannon Named America East Rookie of the Week

Monday, November 18th, 2024
Allison Cannon has been named America East Women's Basketball Rookie of the Week the league office announced on Monday. In a 1-1 week with the Highlanders, Cannon averaged 10.0ppg, 2.0rpg and 2.0apg. Cannon and the Highlanders earned its first win at home inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Welln...

NJIT Biologist Among $10M XPRIZE Competition Winners for Rainforest Biodiversity Sampling Tech

Saturday, November 16th, 2024
NJIT biologist Eric Fortune and a team of scientists called “Limelight Rainforest” have won the five-year XPRIZE Rainforest Competition, securing half of the competition's $10 million prize purse.  The team's dramatic victory was announced Nov. 15 at the G20 Social Summit in Rio de Janeiro, th...

Biostatistician Krystal Hunter Delves into Health Disparities

Thursday, November 14th, 2024
Krystal Hunter '21, Ph.D., is a biostatistician at Cooper Research Institute, where she plays a pivotal role in shaping the statistical framework of clinical studies. Her expertise ensures that data collected in research is robust and reliable, helping physicians and researchers accurately test thei...

Tricking the Body into Replacing Lost Muscle

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
The human body can heal itself, but only up to a point. If an injury removes 20% or more of a muscle — as can happen in car accidents, certain surgeries or explosions in combat zones — natural processes can’t, on their own, replace it. Instead, the wound seals up, covered by scar tissue.  ...

NJIT Hacking Season '24 Wins with Themes of Steampunk and 1970s Culture

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024
Coders, more than most people, spend hours upon hours clacking away at their keyboards, so they’re prime candidates for an invention that helps improve your posture — and so TheBackPak won this year’s edition of HackNJIT, earning $1,500 for its student developers. TheBackPak uses gyroscopes and a m...

Swimmers Deemer and Endle Earn America East Weekly Awards

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Sam Deemer was named the America East Swimmer of the Week, while Borys Endle earned the America East Rookie of the Week, the conference announced on Tuesday. Both earned their first career AE weekly awards. Deemer posted a 200-yard backstroke time of 1:48.68 to finish second against Marist, th...

For 6th Straight Year, NJIT Is Top 50 in Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
For the sixth straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology's undergraduate program for entrepreneurship ranks top 50 nationally, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. At No. 44, NJIT improved three places from last year. Also, its graduate program for entrepreneurship ro...

Veterans Day Message from President Lim

Monday, November 11th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,   Today, as we observe Veterans Day, I want to thank the many NJIT community members who are veterans of, or currently serve in, the United States Armed Forces for their service to our nation.   Thousands of our graduates and hundreds of our current students...
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