Oak Hall Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks Major Milestone in NJIT Campus Growth

Friday, September 19th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) officially broke ground today on the reconstruction of Oak Hall, a 16-floor, 191,000-square-foot residence hall comprising 453 beds across 154 apartment-style units when it opens in summer 2027. The project will expand NJIT’s housing capacity by 275 beds and...

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in spr...

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an...

Search for Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Dear Highlanders, I am pleased to announce that NJIT has launched a national search for our next Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To guide this important effort, we have engaged WittKieffer, a nationally respected executive search firm with deep expertise in higher education. The s...

NJIT Leaders Named to NJBIZ's 2025 Education Power List

Monday, September 15th, 2025
Three members of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s leadership are included in NJBIZ’s 2025 Education Power List, which highlights influential figures shaping the state’s education landscape. The annual list emphasizes the people navigating higher education’s shifting environment — balancing poli...

YWCC Student–Faculty Team Wins Best Presentation Award for Ant Swarm Simulation

Monday, September 15th, 2025
Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and utilized, thanks to research conducted by recent graduate Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor...

FIFA Fan Zones: NJIT Architecture Students Reimagine Public Spaces for World Cup

Monday, September 15th, 2025
When the FIFA World Cup kicks off next summer, all eyes will be on the 16 host cities across North America — especially East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the tournament’s final will be played at the 80,000-seat MetLife Stadium. But for Tatiana Florexil ’25, a recent graduate from New Jersey Institu...

Ramos Scores in 6th Minute to Lead NJIT to Third Straight Win

Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Kelsey Ramos scored her second goal of the season in the sixth minute to lead NJIT (5-2-1) to its third straight win, a 1-0 victory over Lafayette (2-3-3) on Thursday night at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. Postgame interview with head coach Ally Nick and senior goalkeeper Mojisola Ayodele Ram...

NJIT's STEM Success Academy Propels Students Toward Engineering Futures

Thursday, September 11th, 2025
When the vessel “King Gizzard” lined up for the final round of NJIT’s STEM Success Academy boat race, the stakes weren’t high in the traditional sense — just a stream of air and a small plastic boat floating on a narrow water track in NJIT’s Makerspace. But what was at play was far bigger: creativit...

NJIT's 2025 'Celebration' Honors Leaders in Business, Engineering and Community

Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s annual Celebration fundraiser will take place on Friday, November 7, 2025 at The Grove in Cedar Grove, NJ, and will recognize four outstanding honorees. A festive evening of dinner, dancing and awards that draws hundreds of alumni, business leaders and friends in...