Improving Community Water Through Citizen Science

Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Lead is a neurotoxin, particularly dangerous to infants and children. In 2017, when tests revealed hazardous levels of the heavy metal in Newark’s water, the city raced to replace more than 18,000 lead service lines in record time. While federal, state and city officials responded to the infrastruct...

NJIT Partners on New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative to Drive Statewide Innovation

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill was joined today by a contingent of representatives from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative (NJSCI), a groundbreaking public-private partnership that will drive the next generation of research, innova...

NJIT Celebrates Faculty, Staff at 2026 Nexus of Excellence Awards

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) celebrated the achievements of its faculty and staff at the annual Nexus of Excellence Awards on Oct. 14 in the Campus Center Atrium, recognizing outstanding contributions to teaching, research, mentoring, service and community engagement. The ceremony honor...

Men's Soccer Scores Three Second-Half Goals to Defeat UAlbany

Monday, October 19th, 2026
NJIT scored twice in the final 14 minutes to secure a 3-1 victory over UAlbany on Saturday at Lubetkin Field at J. Malcolm Simon Stadium, continuing its strong start to America East play during Homecoming Weekend. The Highlanders improved to 7-4-3 overall and 3-0-1 in conference play with the victor...

Ying Wu College of Computing Proudly Welcomes New Faculty to the Departments of Computer Science and Data Science for 2026-2027 Academic Year

Friday, October 16th, 2026
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is pleased to announce the appointments of two new assistant professors who have already made a noticeable impact on students during the first half of the fall 2026 semester. Varun Madathil comes to the Department of Computer Science direct from his postdoctoral ...

Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 y Daniel Vargas ’15, incluidos en la lista “Latinos 40 Under 40”

Friday, October 16th, 2026
Los exalumnos de NJIT Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 y Daniel Vargas ’15 fueron incluidos en la lista Latinos 40 Under 40 de 2026 para la región triestatal de Nueva York, elaborada por Negocios Now, junto a un grupo de líderes latinos emergentes que dejan huella en la región. Ambos son copresidentes del C...

NJIT Professor Selected for DOE Early Career Award to Advance Research on Metal Failure

Friday, October 16th, 2026
Nutth Tuchinda, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 2026 Early Career Research Program, a competitive national initiative supporting promising scientists in the early st...

Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 and Daniel Vargas ’15 Named to ‘Latinos 40 Under 40’

Friday, October 16th, 2026
NJIT alumni Nick Fuentes-Zuluaga ’19 and Daniel Vargas ’15 have been named to Negocios Now’s NYC Tri-State Latinos 40 Under 40 Class of 2026, joining a group of emerging Latino leaders making an impact across the region. Both serve as co-chairs of NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC)...

More Than Skin Deep: New System for Wound Analysis Earns Patent for NJIT Researcher

Thursday, October 15th, 2026
There's a saying that time heals all wounds, but there's less certainty about how wounds heal. The process can be difficult for medical experts to track. Though changes in surface contours and wound boundaries offer clues about the pace of healing, measurements at the surface can overlook changes in...

NJIT Historian’s Book Reveals Untold Legal History of U.S. Nuclear Blasts in Marshall Islands

Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Less than nine years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon roughly 1,000 times more powerful roughly 2,600 miles away, in the Marshall Islands. The March 1, 1954, Castle Bravo blast at Bikini Atoll — the largest nuclear detonation in U.S. history — sent ...