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NJIT’s Ashish Borgaonkar Wins ASEE National Teaching Award for Building the Foundation of Future Engineers

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Ashish Borgaonkar, assistant professor of engineering education in the School of Applied Engineering Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and founding director of Newark College of Engineering’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program, has been selected for the 2026 ASEE National Outstanding T...

NJIT Ph.D. Researcher Wins NASA FINESST Award to Probe Mysteries of ‘White-Light’ Solar Flares

Monday, June 15th, 2026
In 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington witnessed a sudden flash from the Sun. The flare was followed by an extreme geomagnetic storm that produced auroras at unusually low latitudes and disrupted telegraph systems around the world. The event later became known as the Carrington Event — the first re...

Young Entrepreneurs Bring Startup Ideas to NJIT for NYLA Entrepreneurathon

Monday, June 15th, 2026
More than 60 middle and high school students from across New Jersey came to New Jersey Institute of Technology for NYLA Entrepreneurathon 2026, a one-day startup competition designed to give younger students hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, innovation and business development. Hosted at NJIT...

NJIT Joins 'Tear the Paper Ceiling' Campaign to Advance Skills-First Workforce Opportunity

Monday, June 15th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology, through its professional education and workforce development division the Learning and Development Initiative (LDI), announced its support of the growing national skills-first movement by joining the Tear the Paper Ceiling public awareness campaign led by the Ad C...

From Materials Engineering to a Job at SpaceX: NJIT Graduate Pia Piazzi Built a Bright Future

Monday, June 15th, 2026
All engineers are familiar with the chemical, mechanical and physical properties of the materials that they work with. But for materials engineers, their expertise goes much deeper, demonstrating highly detailed knowledge — down to the molecular and atomic level — of materials such as ceramics, conc...

NJIT Alumna Maria Nogueira Signs Pro Contract with FC Porto

Friday, June 12th, 2026
NJIT women's soccer alumna Maria Nogueira has signed a professional contract with FC Porto, the club announced Wednesday. Nogueira becomes the third Highlander to sign a professional contract under head coach Ally Nick, joining Angela Harris and Bailey Chant, who signed with Acharnaikos Women FC in ...

NJIT Names Alumnus Pelesko as Interim President, Effective August 4, 2026

Friday, June 12th, 2026
Following the June 9 announcement of NJIT President Teik C. Lim’s intent to retire from the university on August 3, 2026, the university’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to appoint Dr. John A. Pelesko, NJIT’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, to serve as interim preside...

Construction Workers Get Mental Health Support from NJIT Initiative

Thursday, June 11th, 2026
Construction is a physically demanding profession. But for many in the industry, a far greater challenge is managing mental and emotional well-being. Anxiety, depression, substance abuse and addiction in construction workers often go unreported and untreated. Long workdays, hazardous conditions, unp...

From NJIT to Harvard, Austin Chen Designs for a More Sustainable Future

Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
Austin Chen ’26 arrived at NJIT with an interest in architecture, but he leaves with something more defined: a belief that the built environment must be measured not only by its form, but also by its function, performance, and how it responds to people who inhabit it. Chen, an Albert Dorman Honors C...

Zac Kuzak Named 2025-26 America East Man of the Year

Wednesday, June 10th, 2026
NJIT men's swimming and diving senior Zac Kuzak has been named the 2025-26 America East Conference Man of the Year, the league office announced at the conference's annual awards dinner on the evening of June 2. Kuzak becomes the first student-athlete in NJIT Athletics history to be named America Eas...