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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...

Companies Learn What’s Possible During Fall 2025 Capstone Program

Monday, December 22nd, 2025
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Capstone Program has been a defining benchmark in NJIT’s signature experiential learning approach for senior and select master’s students for over two decades. This graduation requirement tasks students with providing solutions to real-world challenges as entr...

In Augmented Reality Project, a Rodent of Unusual Size Educates Kids

Thursday, December 18th, 2025
New research shows that AI-enhanced augmented reality, when used for supporting computational thinking skills in K-12 education, can be more effective than simply letting children passively consume content built on the same technologies.Lei Zhang, assistant informatics professor in NJIT’s Ying Wu Co...

NJIT Engineering Professor Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Friday, December 12th, 2025
Wen Zhang, a professor at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The program honors academic and institutional inventors, and the induction recognizes Zhang’s work using nanomaterials to break down environmental pollutants, recover n...

As Industrial Robots Become Autonomous, NJIT Helps Keep Them Connected

Friday, December 12th, 2025
Robots are becoming increasingly mobile and autonomous in busy factories and warehouses, so researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and four other universities are working out how to keep electronic employees aware of wifi networks at all times.The team is betting on the success of smart r...

150+ Honors Scholars Showcase Findings at Interdisciplinary Research Forum

Friday, December 12th, 2025
Students from Albert Dorman Honors College’s courses – Introduction to Research Writing, Introduction to Research Methods, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology and Urban Transformation and Introduction to Sustainability Studies – presented their semester's research during the Honors...

Future Cellular Networks Could Reach Top Speed with Help from NJIT Professor

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Sixth-generation mobile networks arriving in the 2030s will connect your smart devices by dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the data rates of today, and those networks might employ important research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and the State University of New York - Buffalo to...

For Students in NJIT Library Hackathon, There are Maps to the Stacks

Monday, December 8th, 2025
“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.The winning team, announced D...

NJIT and T&M Ink Upskilling Agreement, Showcase New Model for Industry and Academic Partnership

Monday, November 10th, 2025
Amid growing demand for licensed engineers and new infrastructure investment, NJIT is partnering with industry to make graduate education more accessible for working professionals — offering firms a way to upskill their engineers while expanding the state’s talent pipeline. Corporate- and public-se...

NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient Emergencies

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers. Truesdell works on the technical challenges inherent in multiple pe...