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Data Scientists Say It’s Not You, It’s Google, In Flap Over AI-summarized Search Results

Wednesday, June 24th, 2026
Content creators and ordinary Google users alike are harmed by artificial intelligence summaries of search queries, because the summaries are often inconsistent, presenting disreputable results and withholding information from better sources that restrict Gemini training bots, researchers from New J...

Nanobubbles for Algae Cleanup: Q&A With NJIT Researcher Wen Zhang

Thursday, June 18th, 2026
One of the most powerful environmental cleaning technologies in recent years is too small to see with the naked eye. Nanobubbles — tiny gaseous bubbles with diameters of around 100 nanometers — can clean up a range of harmful pollutants in water, from oil spills to algae. Wen Zhang, a New Jersey In...

NJIT’s Ashish Borgaonkar Wins ASEE National Teaching Award for Building the Foundation of Future Engineers

Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Ashish Borgaonkar, assistant professor of engineering education in the School of Applied Engineering Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology and founding director of Newark College of Engineering’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program, has been selected for the 2026 ASEE National Outstanding T...

From Materials Engineering to a Job at SpaceX: NJIT Graduate Pia Piazzi Built a Bright Future

Monday, June 15th, 2026
All engineers are familiar with the chemical, mechanical and physical properties of the materials that they work with. But for materials engineers, their expertise goes much deeper, demonstrating highly detailed knowledge — down to the molecular and atomic level — of materials such as ceramics, conc...

Construction Workers Get Mental Health Support from NJIT Initiative

Thursday, June 11th, 2026
Construction is a physically demanding profession. But for many in the industry, a far greater challenge is managing mental and emotional well-being. Anxiety, depression, substance abuse and addiction in construction workers often go unreported and untreated. Long workdays, hazardous conditions, unp...

Graduate Enzo Suarez Followed NJIT's Engineering Track to a Career in Railroads

Monday, June 8th, 2026
Attending New Jersey Institute of Technology set Enzo Suarez '25 on the right track: toward a career in railroads. Suarez graduated magna cum laude — a semester early — with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and multiple departmental honors, including the Freshman and Senior Excellence Awards from the Joh...

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 networ...

Honors Scholars Turn Research, Service Learning Into Real-World Impact

Friday, May 29th, 2026
Students from Albert Dorman Honors College courses presented their semester’s research during the fifth Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, showcasing projects that ranged from bias in generative artificial intelligence to engineering responses for environmental challenges along Newark’s waterw...

Computer Engineering Major Adam Mariano Graduates in Top 1%, Heads to Michigan for Masters

Monday, May 25th, 2026
Curiosity, an interest in computers and an affinity for problem-solving brought Adam Mariano '26 to New Jersey Institute of Technology, leading them to a major in computer engineering. But they also found space for their lifelong love of music, performing on the viola with the NJIT String Ensemble. ...