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NJIT's Rajesh Davé Wins Lifetime Achievement Award from American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Rajesh Davé, a problem-focused inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have applications in such diverse areas as rocket fuels and explosives, high-value-added chemicals and pharmaceuticals, has been tapped for the Elsevier Particle Technology Forum Lifetime Achieveme...

Business School Students Win NJBIA Women's Leadership Awards

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Melissa De Cunto and Nalan Kus, both seniors in NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, are recipients of this year's New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s Rising Star Award. “NJBIA’s Rising Star Awards honor students who have demonstrated a passion for their career path, academ...

Soot's Climate-Altering Properties Change Within Hours of Entering Atmosphere

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth’s atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a year — posing a climate-warming impact previously estimated at almost one-third that of carbon dioxide. Now, researchers say the climate-altering properties of these particles can...

Forbes Ranks NJIT a Top 50 Public University in the US

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Forbes ranks New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) top 50 in the U.S. among public universities for 2026. At No. 41, NJIT jumped 47 places from last year. In addition, NJIT is No. 101 on Forbes’ list of America’s Top Colleges, up 92 notches from last year. That ranking places NJIT in the top 20...

Highlanders Split Doubleheader, Pick Up First Win of The Season

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
The NJIT women's volleyball team secured their first win of the season in a hard-fought four-set battle against Stonehill in double header at the Iona Invitational. This win marks three years in a row the Highlanders have won a match on opening weekend. Match 1 at Iona: Set Scores Set 1:...

Welcome Back and Happy Labor Day

Friday, August 29th, 2025
Dear Highlanders, I hope you have enjoyed a summer that has been both productive and rejuvenating, and that you are relaxing this Labor Day weekend or celebrating with family and friends as we prepare for the beginning of the fall semester. While many of us have enjoyed the summer, I believe ...

NJIT Leads All NJ Universities Among Forbes' 'Best-In-State Employers'

Friday, August 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has once again earned national recognition on Forbes’ “America’s Best-In-State Employers” list, reinforcing the university’s reputation as a top academic institution — both for students and its faculty and staff. Among the 90 companies in New Jersey that ea...

Coming Soon to NJIT: National Robotics Competition

Friday, August 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a national robotics competition next month at its Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. About 1,000 high school students from eight states — including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania — and Canada will vie for prizes and the ...

Is Computer Science Education Still Worth It? Let History Be Your Guide

Friday, August 29th, 2025
Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before. The best-known ones happened in the mid-1980s after the PC boom and in the early-2000s after the dot-com boom. There are reasons to believe that computing in general will recover from the current bust, but there might be a shi...

NJIT Alumnus Lands Verizon Engineering Role, While Staying Enrolled for M.S.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Most people finish college and then look for full-time employment or enroll in graduate school, but Don Bonifacio did both and is constantly challenging himself to learn new things. Bonifacio graduated in May from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in computer engineering and was a memb...