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Workday is Live at NJIT

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
Dear Highlanders, We are pleased that Workday, our new Human Resources, Finance, and Payroll solution, has gone live successfully. This is a significant milestone for our university and an important step in modernizing and strengthening the systems that support our operations. Workday will provide...

Master’s Students in Computing Win Back-to-Back Hackathons for On-the-Spot Solutions

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
When four graduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing aim to win consecutive, highly competitive hackathons by producing two working prototypes in a matter of hours – they “mean it.” M.S. in Computer Science students Dev Trivedi and Aakash Singh, along with Pruthvi Kadam M.S. ’26 (Data Sc...

Maya Gervits’ Legacy at HCAD’s Littman Library

Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
“While here, Maya turned the Littman Library into the literal and metaphorical heart of the College.” - Glenn Goldman On the occasion of her retirement, Hillier College thanks Maya Gervits for her many contributions to our community, especially her stewardship of the Littman Library for nearly 25 y...

Data Scientists Say It’s Not You, It’s Google, In Flap Over AI-summarized Search Results

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Content creators and ordinary Google users alike are harmed by artificial intelligence summaries of search queries, because the summaries are often inconsistent, presenting disreputable results and withholding information from better sources that restrict Gemini training bots, researchers from New J...

10 Highlanders Named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
The America East Conference has announced that 10 student-athletes from NJIT have been named 2025-26 America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Monday. In addition to registering a 3.75 GPA for th...

NJIT Public Safety Earns Accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators

Monday, June 22nd, 2026
The Department of Public Safety at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has achieved accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), the leading authority for campus public safety. Fewer than 100 agencies nationally have earned this distinctiv...

This Master's Graduate Came to the US with an AI Idea for Finance That Would Not Lie. NJIT Helped Make Happen.

Friday, June 19th, 2026
Two significant milestones happened for Yash Kamlesh Shah on May 20: he officially graduated with his M.S. in Data Science from the Ying Wu College of Computing; and his startup, Avarieux, was publicly announced, with a waitlist that opened once the company came out of stealth. Avarieux is an AI re...

Nanobubbles for Algae Cleanup: Q&A With NJIT Researcher Wen Zhang

Thursday, June 18th, 2026
One of the most powerful environmental cleaning technologies in recent years is too small to see with the naked eye. Nanobubbles — tiny gaseous bubbles with diameters of around 100 nanometers — can clean up a range of harmful pollutants in water, from oil spills to algae. Wen Zhang, a New Jersey In...

For Takeshi Harada, Good Design Begins with Understanding

Thursday, June 18th, 2026
As one of seven industrial designers graduating from NJIT this year, Takeshi Harada ’26 leaves the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) with a sense of the field that feels both grounded and forward-looking. He is thinking about New York, where he hopes to launch his career in the home ...

From Byblos to Newark: Fadi Deek’s Memoir Traces a Life Across War, Education, Family and Career

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Fadi P. Deek’s new memoir, “Portrait of an Expatriate: A Lebanese-American Story,” begins in Byblos, Lebanon — the modern-day city of Jbeil — with memories of family, faith, tradition, the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of Mount Lebanon. But it is also a story shaped by civil war, displacement ...