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NJIT Hosts International High School Robotics Tournament, Sending Three to World Champs

Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
High school robotics teams from Vancouver, B.C., Irvine, Calif. and Flushing, N.Y. won the 2026 Highlander Summit at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Wellness and Events Center this fall. The summit is a major competition on the Vex Robotics circuit, with the winners besting 94 others to advance...

NJIT Ranks No. 22 in Princeton Review's Best Value List, 6th Year in Top 50

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
For the sixth consecutive year, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a Top 50 Best Value College in The Princeton Review’s annual ranking of public institutions. At No. 22 in the 2027 edition, NJIT climbed seven spots this year and is the only university in New Jersey included in the Top 50 ...

International Graduate Pays It Forward Through Twenty20 Vision

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Ashray Kengunte M.S. '23, like many international students, came to NJIT having done his homework. He chose the university and the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) for its strong course structure, wide range of electives, and opportunities to explore areas such as data science, machine learning a...

Men’s Soccer Opens America East Play With 2-1 Win Over Binghamton

Monday, September 28th, 2026
Luan Lazoja scored the go-ahead goal in the 56th minute, and the NJIT men's soccer team opened America East Conference play with a 2-1 victory over Binghamton Saturday evening at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium. With the win, the Highlanders improve to 4-4-1 overall and 1-0-0 in America East pla...

NJIT Student Team Sends A.R.R.O.W. Into Space with NASA

Monday, September 28th, 2026
A multidisciplinary team of NJIT students from the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Rocketry Club made history as participants in NJIT’s first team to launch in NASA’s RockSat Program. With their A.R.R.O.W. Mission (Aerospace Retrieval and Re-Entry Observat...

NJIT’s Sara Zapico Named National Higher Education Forensic Science Educator of the Year

Friday, September 25th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic scientist Sara C. Zapico has been named the 2026 Senator John Cornyn III National Higher Education Forensic Science Educator of the Year by the Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations, recognizing her contributions to forensic science education. Surro...

NJIT and Kazakhstan’s SDU University Establish Graduate Business Pathways

Friday, September 25th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology and SDU University in Kazakhstan have established a partnership that will enable eligible SDU students to pursue graduate degrees from both institutions through a coordinated program of study in Kazakhstan and the United States. The memorandum of understanding, sig...

NJIT Alum Ayeh Khalil Earns Fulbright Research Grant for Public Health Study in Jordan

Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Ayeh T. Khalil ’20, an alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Albert Dorman Honors College and Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student research grant to conduct a 10-month public health study in Amman, Jordan. Khalil’s project, A Health Systems Ap...

NJIT to Expand National Research Portal, Receives $2.3 Million NSF Grant

Thursday, September 24th, 2026
There's a moment in every research lab when weeks, months or years of effort finally come together to confirm a hypothesis or produce a successful prototype. That moment is exhilarating for researchers, but the work doesn't stop there. Transforming lab results into far-reaching solutions for real-wo...

NJIT Students’ Plan to Power the Moon with Swarm Robots Wins NASA Prize

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
NASA wants to establish sustained human presence on the lunar surface, but Houston has a problem — keeping the lights on when night falls on the Moon. The lunar South Pole, where NASA announced plans in March to build humanity’s first long-term Moon base, sees two weeks of total darkness at a time, ...