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NJIT Again Leads All NJ Universities Among Forbes’ Best Employers by State

Sunday, August 30th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) remains the top-ranked educational institution in New Jersey on Forbes’ 2026 list of America’s Best Employers by State. Among the 90 organizations recognized in New Jersey, NJIT ranked: No. 1 among educational institutions No. 8 among employers headquartere...

Federal Scholarships Now Available Where AI and Cybersecurity Meet

Friday, August 28th, 2026
Beginning this fall, New Jersey Institute of Technology students who study artificial intelligence and cybersecurity can earn full scholarships in exchange for working in government jobs after graduation. The deal is happening because NJIT was accepted into the National Science Foundation’s new Cybe...

NJIT Rated No. 1 Public University in New Jersey, No. 38 Nationally in TIME Ranking

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the No. 1 public university in New Jersey and No. 38 among public institutions nationwide in TIME’s inaugural America’s Best Colleges 2026-2027 ranking. NJIT also ranks No. 95 overall nationally among the 500 colleges and universities recognized by TIME a...

Ahmad Azuad Yaseer - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2026

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Ahmad Azuad Yaseer is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is advised by Dr. Dong-Kyun Ko. His research focuses on the development of field-effect-gated lead selenide colloidal quantum dot (PbSe CQD)-based photodiod...

The Art of Making a Difference

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Ron Dooley '64 remembers helping on his father’s milk route in Linden with the kind of hindsight that turns an old complaint into something like gratitude. At 12, he was not especially eager to get up before dawn and do the work of Dooley’s Dairy. But what felt then like a chore now looks more like ...

NJIT Pi Kappa Phi Members Complete Gear Up New York, Raising More Than $170,000

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Six members of NJIT’s Pi Kappa Phi fraternity — Damian “DJ” Buccine Jr., Jacob Immitt, Zakaria Abazine, Jacob Vasquez, Connor Mackersie and Antonio Marques — completed Gear Up New York this summer as part of a team that raised more than $170,000 for The Ability Experience. The journey took participa...

In ‘From Code to Cloud,’ Maura and Fadi Deek Carry Forward the Teaching Legacy of NJIT Professor James McHugh

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
A new textbook by NJIT professors Maura and Fadi Deek and alumnus Wei Yao Ph.D. ’24 brings to completion a project they began with the late James McHugh, a longtime NJIT professor, academic leader and mentor whose influence on computing education at the university spanned decades. Published this sum...

Nanobubble Scientists Convene at NJIT to Share Environmental Research

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the International Conference on Nanobubbles, bringing together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and their customers to consider a technology so small that billions could fit inside a grain of sand. The tiny bubbles are typically used in air, soil and wat...

MSI Students See Mathematics — and Their Potential — Differently After Screening 'Counted Out'

Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
For students in New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Math Success Initiative, a recent documentary screening offered a different way to think about mathematics — not simply as a subject to master, but as something that shapes opportunities, decisions and everyday life. The students gathered in Westo...

Kathleen Byington Appointed Interim CFO at NJIT

Monday, August 24th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Kathleen M. Byington as interim senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective September 1, 2026. Byington comes to NJIT with an abundance of leadership experience in higher education finance, administration, and business operatio...