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NJIT Engineering Researchers Study Effect of State Gun Removal Law

Monday, February 9th, 2026
Following a long period of diminishing gun violence in New Jersey’s urban areas, researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology are now applying engineering methods to the data, as they evaluate the effectiveness of red flags laws that can temporarily prevent dangerous people from possessing we...

Record Turnout at NJIT Startup Job Fair Showcases Thriving Entrepreneurial Spirit

Friday, February 6th, 2026
For the fifth year running, NJIT’s Startup Job Fair brought a buzz to campus, as hundreds of students turned out to meet face-to-face with CEOs of local startups inside the Central King Building recently.The space hummed with activity, drawing a strong turnout of early-stage companies eager to conne...

Fresher Premade Meals Sell Faster, NJIT Research Finds

Friday, February 6th, 2026
Why did the rotisserie chicken cross the aisle — and end up in your shopping cart? Maybe you grabbed the container that was closest to you, or maybe you examined all of the chickens, checking dates and timestamps to see when they were cooked. Markets follow various display strategies for prepared fo...

NJIT Business School Dean Joins Board of Newark Regional Business Partnership

Thursday, February 5th, 2026
Newark Regional Business Partnership announced that Oya Tukel, dean of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, is the newest member on its board of directors.Tukel joined NJIT in 2019 and is the first NJIT representative on the partnership’s board, which started inc...

An S-STEM Alumnus Who Did It on His Own – With the Right Support

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Rafael Abreu ’25 (Computer Science) came to the U.S. alone as a high school student from the Dominican Republic because he believed in the American dream: work hard, confront obstacles with grit and determination and create your destiny. He knew it would not be easy. But without risk there is no rew...

NJIT Alumnus and State Senator Paul Sarlo Publishes Op-Ed on New Jersey’s Energy Strategy

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
New Jersey Senator and NJIT alumnus Paul Sarlo ’92, ’95 recently published an op-ed calling for a balanced and affordable energy strategy for the state. In the piece, Sarlo raises concerns about rising utility costs and highlights the need for a diversified energy mix to meet New Jersey’s growing de...

Designing with Empathy: How Alum Liliana Torres Builds Community Through Architecture

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Liliana Torres’s architecture has always been about people. “The way I want my story to be told is through how everything I learned at NJIT continues to translate into my professional life — the values, the sense of responsibility, and the commitment to helping others never stopped at graduatio...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring 2026 Career Fair

Monday, February 2nd, 2026
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform.Career Development Services biannual career fair continues to be one of the most anticipated events for students. Last fall’s fair, held in September, welcomed over 3,300 students...

Men's Basketball Ends Road Trip with Thrilling Win at Vermont, 79-77

Sunday, February 1st, 2026
The NJIT men's basketball team wins thrilling road game at Vermont, 79-77, and improve to 6-2 in America East action.It was a slow start between two of the top teams in the America East with the score being just 13-7 eight minutes into the game.This slow start flipped when the Highlanders powered by...

Four YWCC Data Science Faculty Present at Prestigious NeurlPS 2025

Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Assistant Professors Yingcong Li, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Lingxiao Wang and Shuai Zhang, four recent additions to the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), had the honor of presenting their research papers at the 2025 Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processi...