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Undergrad’s Putnam Score Tops NJIT Records — and His Wildest Dreams

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Undergrad Aiden Finley Lim ’29 woke up the morning after participating in the nation’s toughest undergraduate math competition with a number stuck in his head — one that, as it turned out, he would surpass on his way into NJIT record books.Lim, a mechanical engineering major in the Albert Dorman Hon...

Made Scientific and NJIT Partner to Enhance Cell and Gene Therapy Bioprocessing Curriculum

Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology is partnering with Made Scientific, Inc. to help develop a new graduate bioprocessing elective within NJIT’s Master of Science program in Chemical and Materials Engineering. Launching in Spring 2027, the course is intended to prepare students for work in cell and g...

Suhib AlHendi - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2026

Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
Suhib Al-Hindi is a PhD researcher in high-performance computing at NJIT, under the supervision of Prof. Qing Liu. His research sits at the intersection of HPC and distributed systems, with a focus on data movement, system efficiency, and quality of service. He studies how large-scale systems read, ...

Computer Science Student Represents NJIT for Second Year at TreeHacks 2026

Monday, March 30th, 2026
Gurmeher Singh, a sophomore computer science major with a minor in AI in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and Albert Dorman Honors College, was the sole NJIT student for the second year to be one of 1,000 accepted from major universities, including Ivy Leagues, out of 15,000 applications to S...

NJIT Professor's Math Model Picks MLB's 2026 Winners by Opening Day

Sunday, March 29th, 2026
As baseball fans celebrated Opening Day, one NJIT mathematician has already played out the entire 2026 season — on paper.Bruce Bukiet, a mathematics professor in NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts, has released his annual statistical projections for Major League Baseball's 162-game regular s...

From Brain Mapping to Drone Swarms, AI Connect Minds and Challenges Makers at NCE

Friday, March 27th, 2026
Engineering has been called "the art of the possible," so it's no wonder that engineers of all types are investigating the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence. At New Jersey Institute of Technology's AI Exploration Day, an all-day and campus-wide event held on March 26, presenters from ...

Hillier College of Architecture and Design Explores AI’s Expanding Role at NJIT

Friday, March 27th, 2026
At NJIT’s inaugural Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) helped show just how far artificial intelligence is reaching across the university. Through faculty presentations and student-led demonstrations, HCAD’s contributions examined AI from m...

AI Exploration Day at NJIT: A University-Wide Reckoning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Thursday, March 26th, 2026
On the first night of classes at the Newark Technical School in 1881 — the institution that would become New Jersey Institute of Technology — 88 students walked through a snowstorm into a three-story building on West Park Street. The building was lit by 26 light bulbs, powered by electricity furnish...

HCSLA Researchers Take Visitors on AI Exploration: From Space Weather Forecasting to Ethical AI

Thursday, March 26th, 2026
If you wanted to see how AI and research across the humanities and sciences are reshaping each other in real time, NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (HCSLA) offered a front-row seat during the university’s first AI Exploration Day.The all-day AI takeover of campus highlighted the ...

Computer Science and Data Science Tame AI at NJIT

Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Faculty and student research from NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing abounded at Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, with faculty and dozens of students presenting their timely work.A trend was the emphasis on unique ways in which AI works — what we collectively understand, what we don’t and w...