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Data Scientists Say It’s Not You, It’s Google, In Flap Over AI-summarized Search Results

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Content creators and ordinary Google users alike are harmed by artificial intelligence summaries of search queries, because the summaries are often inconsistent, presenting disreputable results and withholding information from better sources that restrict Gemini training bots, researchers from New J...

10 Highlanders Named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
The America East Conference has announced that 10 student-athletes from NJIT have been named 2025-26 America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Monday. In addition to registering a 3.75 GPA for th...

NJIT Public Safety Earns Accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators

Monday, June 22nd, 2026
The Department of Public Safety at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has achieved accreditation from the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA), the leading authority for campus public safety. Fewer than 100 agencies nationally have earned this distinctiv...

This Master's Graduate Came to the US with an AI Idea for Finance That Would Not Lie. NJIT Helped Make Happen.

Friday, June 19th, 2026
Two significant milestones happened for Yash Kamlesh Shah on May 20: he officially graduated with his M.S. in Data Science from the Ying Wu College of Computing; and his startup, Avarieux, was publicly announced, with a waitlist that opened once the company came out of stealth. Avarieux is an AI re...

Nanobubbles for Algae Cleanup: Q&A With NJIT Researcher Wen Zhang

Thursday, June 18th, 2026
One of the most powerful environmental cleaning technologies in recent years is too small to see with the naked eye. Nanobubbles — tiny gaseous bubbles with diameters of around 100 nanometers — can clean up a range of harmful pollutants in water, from oil spills to algae. Wen Zhang, a New Jersey In...

For Takeshi Harada, Good Design Begins with Understanding

Thursday, June 18th, 2026
As one of seven industrial designers graduating from NJIT this year, Takeshi Harada ’26 leaves the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) with a sense of the field that feels both grounded and forward-looking. He is thinking about New York, where he hopes to launch his career in the home ...

From Byblos to Newark: Fadi Deek’s Memoir Traces a Life Across War, Education, Family and Career

Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Fadi P. Deek’s new memoir, “Portrait of an Expatriate: A Lebanese-American Story,” begins in Byblos, Lebanon — the modern-day city of Jbeil — with memories of family, faith, tradition, the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of Mount Lebanon. But it is also a story shaped by civil war, displacement ...

NJIT is New Jersey’s First Public Institution to Achieve Gold Sustainability Rating

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology has achieved a Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), marking a major milestone in the university’s continued efforts to advance sustainability across academics, campus operations, student engagement and ...

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...