Search-and-Rescue Startup is Three Highlanders and a Robot

Monday, May 18th, 2026
Childhood friends from Bergen County — two seniors and an alumnus — are jointly forming a startup company, MechSense Labs, to apply what they’ve learned at New Jersey Institute of Technology in designing emergency rescue equipment. MechSense’s first invention is a robotic rover called NodeRover, emp...

Avanish Kulkarni, a Lifelong Roblox Fan, Will Become a Developer There

Friday, May 15th, 2026
Avanish Kulkarni got his dream job right out of college. Kulkarni, an Albert Dorman Honors College member who calls East Brunswick home, is graduating with a B.S. in computer science and will move to Silicon Valley this summer to become a software engineer at videogame platform company Roblox. He sc...

CompSci Grad from Springfield Finds His Element in Nuclear Waste

Thursday, May 14th, 2026
Like many computer science majors in the NJIT class of ‘26, Jonathan Malave hoped he might land a job at a name-brand software company such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple or Google. But when an opportunity appeared on LinkedIn to work for WMG Inc., which makes software for the nuclear waste industry, Ma...

Safety of Artificial Intelligence is Focus for CompSci and Applied Math Student

Monday, May 11th, 2026
NJIT makes entrepreneurs and scientists, but junior Nidhi Sakpal is obsessed with something else — she makes AI safer. Sakpal, an Albert Dorman Honors College member from Boonton double-majoring in applied math and computer science, explained that artificial intelligence safety encompasses the analy...

NJIT Students Continue Record-Breaking Rise in Prestigious Fellowships and Awards

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
Students at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have again achieved an impressive amount of prestigious awards this year with 16 students earning nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Their achievement continues an NJIT run, with Highlanders amassing 47(and counting) of these aw...

At Scholarship Luncheon, Class of 2026 Gift Revives NJIT Tradition

Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
NJIT’s annual Scholarship Luncheon is meant to celebrate donor generosity. This year, it also pointed to what comes next. The event brings together scholarship benefactors, alumni and student recipients, creating space for the kinds of conversations that remind people what scholarship support really...

The Verizon 5G Smart Competition Presented a Challenge to Students. NJIT Had Solutions.

Monday, May 4th, 2026
Emerging partner Verizon Communications, Inc., has an interest in what NJIT, the largest polytechnic university in New Jersey with R1 status (highest level of research), can do to take their technology farther and faster than ever before. While several current projects are being conducted by faculty...

YWCC Research Earns Best Paper Awards at ACM CHI 2026

Friday, May 1st, 2026
Several Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) faculty members in the Department of Informatics and their student collaborators presented award-winning research papers at the ACM CHI 2026 conference in Barcelona, Spain during the month of April. The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI confere...

NJIT Leaders Recognized Among BINJE’s Best Higher Education Honorees

Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Several New Jersey Institute of Technology leaders have been recognized in BINJE’s inaugural "BINJE’s Best: Higher Education" honorees list, a statewide package highlighting the people and programs shaping New Jersey’s higher education ecosystem. Published April 24, BINJE described the recognition a...

NJIT Students Design Assistive Technology Prototypes in One-Day Makerspace Sprint

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
A one-day design sprint at NJIT challenged students to think like engineers, designers and problem-solvers for a wider range of users. At CADence: An Additive Design Jam, held April 18 in the NJIT Makerspace, six teams spent the day designing and prototyping assistive technology concepts aimed at im...