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NJIT Double Major Pablo Leyva Takes on Human-AI Interaction at Apple

Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
During his second summer as an Apple intern, Pablo Leyva worked at the point where artificial intelligence meets the person holding an iPhone. The NJIT applied mathematics and computer science double major contributed to a customer-facing project involving Apple Wallet’s 18 products, Siri modeling a...

Professor Julie Ancis Advises Civil Rights Committee on Online Antisemitism and Campus Life

Friday, September 4th, 2026
NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis brought her expertise in cyberpsychology and online hate to a federal civil-rights inquiry examining antisemitism in higher education. Ancis provided her expertise Sept. 1 before the New Jersey Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The co...

NJIT Alumna in Connected Aviation Turned Setbacks Into Strengths

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
When Priyanka Mahankali ’16 failed a networking course during her first semester at New Jersey Institute of Technology, she could have taken it as evidence that the subject was not for her. Instead, she took it as a challenge. Priyanka, who earned her master’s degree in computer science from NJIT, r...

David Bader Named to 2026 Class of IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributors

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
David A. Bader, distinguished professor and founding director of the Institute for Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing, has been named to the 2026 Class of Distinguished Contributors of the IEEE Computer Society. The Distinguished Contributor Recognition Program is a permanent designati...

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...

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 ...

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...

No. 1 in Class to National Security Impact: An Alum’s Journey in Cybersecurity as a Call to Service

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Sam Itman ’22, M.S. ’23 came to NJIT with a passion for solving complex, real-world problems that would have a tangible impact on a national scale, prioritizing mission value over private-sector compensation. His recent promotion as an innovation and AI specialist for the United States Department of...

NJIT Named Among Princeton Review’s Best 392 Colleges for 2027

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is again among the nation’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, earning inclusion in “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” The distinction places NJIT among approximately 14% of the nation’s nearly 2,800 four-year ...

New AI Model Detects Hidden Signs of Solar Eruptions Hours Before They Emerge

Friday, August 14th, 2026
Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun's surface, a new active region — where powerful solar eruptions can originate — begins showing subtle signs of its formation.   Now, researchers say a new artificial intelligence model can detect those early signals and forecast the emergence of solar...