For Students in NJIT Library Hackathon, There are Maps to the Stacks

Monday, December 8th, 2025
“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs. The winning team, announced ...

ECAC Runners-Up! Swimming and Diving Places Second at the ECAC Championships

Monday, December 8th, 2025
The NJIT swimming and diving team placed second with 1,599 points at the ECAC Championships this weekend at the Nassau County Aquatic Center. The Highlanders clinched 18 spots in the finals, including five A-finalists, five B-finalists, and eight C-finalists. Borys Endle won the 200 breast with a sc...

4 Highlanders Score in Double-Figures as NJIT Tops Visiting Manhattan

Monday, December 8th, 2025
Four Highlanders scored in double-figures led by sophomore transfer Ava Locklear's team-high 18 points in NJIT's 71-54 home victory over visiting Manhattan Sunday afternoon in women's basketball non-conference action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. With the win, NJIT move...

YWCC Expands K–12 Computing and Math Outreach Across Newark

Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. Several NJIT del...

NJIT Student Turns Stone into Art, Wins 2025 Business Model Competition

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Yusuf Karyagdi is building a business to upcycle leftover material from his father’s stone fabrication company into high-end artwork — and in turn taking first place, plus a $3,000 check, in the student category at NJIT’s 2025 New Business Model Competition. About 100 people entered the competition,...

Alumni and Mentors Help Newark Students Succeed as NJIT Undergrads

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
A new student persistence effort at NJIT caters to first- and second-year undergraduates from the City of Newark and provides them with mentoring, networking and scholarly skills. The Newark Future STEM Leaders program, sponsored by The Prudential Foundation, saw about half of eligible students opt-...

Digital Twin Database Makes a Singular Difference

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
More than 40,000 students attend classes in Newark, some in schools built before 1920. Repairing and maintaining those structures are massive undertakings. A project led by NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge to create digital twins of every building managed by the Newark Board of Education (BOE) i...

Aditya Kale - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2025

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
Aditya Kale is an EE Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Marcos Netto. His research focuses on the Koopman Operator theory of Dynamical Systems. Specifically, the open problem of discovering provably optimal observables for complex nonlinear systems. What would you say that could be the next big thing in...

Women’s Hoops Moves Back Into the Win Column, Cannon Records First Triple-Double in NJIT Division I Era

Sunday, November 30th, 2025
Sophomore Allison Cannon registered NJIT's first triple double in 29 years as the Highlanders earned a 71-60 home victory over visiting Lafayette Sunday afternoon in non-conference women's basketball action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. Recording 14 points, 11 assists a...

From NJIT to Colgate-Palmolive: PhD Student and Alum Advance the Science of Touch

Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology Ph.D. student Günel Nabiyeva has co-authored a new study in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science that demonstrates how engineering tools can accurately predict how sunscreens “feel” on the skin — bridging scientific measurement and human perception. The co...