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Spring 2026 Capstone Showcase Continues to Combine Experiential Learning with Real-World Solutions

Monday, June 1st, 2026
The Capstone Showcase is one of the final steps to completing a degree program in the Ying Wu College of Computing. It’s required of undergraduates, optional for master’s students, and continues to demonstrate how hands-on, practice-based learning delivers real results that exceed expectations – for...

Q&A with David Bader, Recipient of Scientific Computing Honor

Friday, May 29th, 2026
NJIT’s David Bader, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Data Science, was recently named one of the industry’s most influential researchers by Scientific Computing World.Scientific computing, also known as high-performance computing, refers to the hardware, software and network...

NJIT Cybersecurity Research Adds Protection to AI-Built Code

Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
Software that will harden the security of AI-developed code is being developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology, funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant.NJIT professors Zephyr Yao and Iulian Neamtiu decided they’d seen enough of the downside of programming assisted by artificial ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill Tells NJIT Class of 2026 to Dream Big and Build What Comes Next

Friday, May 22nd, 2026
NJIT celebrated its undergraduate Class of 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, honoring baccalaureate degree candidates from across the university’s colleges in a ceremony centered on service, achievement, alumni connection and the responsibility to use an NJIT education with purpose.The May 22 cer...

For NJIT’s Master’s and Doctoral Class of 2026, a Charge to Adapt, Persist and Lead

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
NJIT celebrated its master’s and doctoral graduates in two commencement ceremonies that joined academic tradition with messages about resilience, uncertainty, knowledge and the responsibility to use advanced education in service of others.The ceremonies, held May 20 at NJIT’s Bloom Wellness and Even...

NJIT Expands Student Entrepreneurship Through Santander Bank Grant

Monday, May 18th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology is expanding student entrepreneurship through a grant from Santander Bank that supports the university’s Entrepreneurial Experience program, a Center for Student Entrepreneurship initiative that connects students with coursework, mentorship, experiential learning a...

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, empl...

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 scor...

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, Mal...

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 analys...