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Jordan Hu Returns to NJIT for Fireside Chat on Leadership, Opportunity and Giving Back

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Jordan Hu ’89 returned to NJIT for a fireside chat that moved beyond career success to examine the harder realities behind entrepreneurship, the value of trust in leadership and the university experience he said made his American dream possible.Hosted by NJIT’s AAPI Employee Resource Group and Offic...

Dana Knox Research Showcase Highlights Student Research With Real-World Reach

Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase filled the Bloom Wellness and Events Center with student research spanning science, engineering, computing, management and the humanities. With poster presentations, two-minute elevator speeches and Board Day luncheon attendees moving through the event, the showcas...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hillier College Provides Art Courses for All Students with Arts@NJIT Initiative

Thursday, January 15th, 2026
From Leonardo da Vinci to Nam Jun Paik to Lillian Schwartz, art and technology have a long and intertwined relationship. Beginning in spring 2026, all NJIT students will have the opportunity to explore this productive feedback loop.Thanks to a generous gift from NJIT alumnus Ron Dooley (Mechanical E...

An Expert in Marine Acoustics Wins NJIT's 2025 Excellence in Research and Innovation Award

Thursday, October 9th, 2025
Eliza Michalopoulou, a mathematician who develops acoustic techniques to reveal uncharted features of the ocean and the movements of its inhabitants, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Foundation Excellence in Research and Innovation award. Her field, geoacoustic inversion, uses signal processing and ...

Jonathan Kozlik, NJIT Student Entrepreneur, Makes the Most of Scholarship

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Scholarships help many students get to college, but for Jonathan Kozlik a scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of other people’s artificial intelligence applications. K...

NJIT Ranked #1 Public University in NJ for Value, Salary in WSJ's '2026 Best Colleges'

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/College Pulse “2026 Best Colleges” rankings.NJIT achieved strong placement in categories that highlight return on invest...

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...