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No. 1 in Class to National Security Impact: An Alum’s Journey in Cybersecurity as a Call to Service

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Sam Itman ’22, M.S. ’23 came to NJIT with a passion for solving complex, real-world problems that would have a tangible impact on a national scale, prioritizing mission value over private-sector compensation. His recent promotion as an innovation and AI specialist for the United States Department of...

NJIT Named Among Princeton Review’s Best 392 Colleges for 2027

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is again among the nation’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, earning inclusion in “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” The distinction places NJIT among approximately 14% of the nation’s nearly 2,800 four-year ...

NJIT’s Atam Dhawan to Receive 2026 Catalyst Award

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Atam P. Dhawan, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s chief strategic innovation officer and senior vice provost for research, will receive the Research & Development Council of New Jersey’s 2026 Catalyst Award for his contributions to strengthening the state’s innovation ecosystem. Dhawan will b...

Eckert Nets First Career Goal as Highlanders Draw Season Opener with Rider

Monday, August 17th, 2026
The NJIT women's soccer team opened the 2026 season with a 1-1 draw against Rider on Sunday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at J. Malcolm Simon Stadium. The Broncs struck first in the 38th minute on their second shot on goal to take the early lead right before halftime. The Highlanders response came in ...

New AI Model Detects Hidden Signs of Solar Eruptions Hours Before They Emerge

Friday, August 14th, 2026
Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun's surface, a new active region — where powerful solar eruptions can originate — begins showing subtle signs of its formation. Now, researchers say a new artificial intelligence model can detect those early signals and forecast the emergence of solar acti...

Innovation, Invention and Impact: NJIT Undergrads Present Summer Research

Thursday, August 13th, 2026
NJIT undergraduate researchers had just three minutes each to explain 10 weeks of work. In rapid succession, students took the stage in the Campus Center Ballroom to describe projects spanning bioscience, bioengineering, materials, sustainability, artificial intelligence, robotics and data science. ...

NJIT Hosts National Conversation on AI and the Future of First-Year Engineering

Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Engineering educators and students from institutions across the country gathered at New Jersey Institute of Technology for the 2026 First-Year Engineering Experience Conference, examining how universities can prepare beginning engineers for a profession — and an educational environment — being resha...

Scientists Simulate Ant Swarms, Find a Single Ant Can Set the Colony in Motion

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
In ant colonies, a single ant can be the catalyst for a wave of mob activity, launching brief bursts of coordinated movement involving hundreds or even thousands of swarming workers, according to new simulations from New Jersey Institute of Technology. About three decades ago, biologists discovered...

FirstLook, an Alumni-Formed Technology Company, Helps Build New Oak Residence Hall

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
FirstLook Services, a company that performs 3D drone mapping and laser scanning for construction sites, was founded by three childhood friends who went through NJIT together and is now helping to build the new Oak Hall. The maps and scans, known as orthomosaic imaging and point clouds, are assembled...

NJIT and Ziplines Education Launch FutureWork™ AI Capability Series

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), through its professional education and workforce development division The Learning and Development Initiative (LDI), has partnered with Ziplines Education to launch of the FutureWork™ AI Capability Series, a portfolio of online, career-focused certificate p...