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NJIT Study Finds Overlooked 'Forever Chemicals' Widespread in New Jersey Tap Water and Bottled Beverages

Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have found that a largely overlooked class of "forever chemicals" is widespread in New Jersey drinking water and commercially available bottled beverages, raising new questions about how these persistent contaminants are monitored and potentia...

NJIT Computing Researchers Awarded for Code Evaluation Paper

Wednesday, October 7th, 2026
Common methods of measuring how people understand programming code are being analyzed in a new way by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology, bringing a technique from social science into the world of computer science. Their goals are to correct what they see as flawed approaches in the s...

Finding Signals, Ignoring Noise: NJIT PhD Grad Helps AI Detect Hate Speech

Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Count from one up to fifty. Simple, right? Now try that while watching a video about the history of math and listening to a song about multiplication, as ten nearby people shout random numbers. Not so easy, is it? When you're surrounded by distractions, focusing on one task can be a challenge — for...

Life on the River

Thursday, October 1st, 2026
The balance between commerce and recreation, always tricky for urban waterways, tipped long ago on the polluted lower stretches of the Passaic River. In sections of Newark, the river and its tributaries are channelized and mostly lost to view, obscured by dense tree stands and scrubby undergrowth. N...

NJIT Students’ Plan to Power the Moon with Swarm Robots Wins NASA Prize

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
NASA wants to establish sustained human presence on the lunar surface, but Houston has a problem — keeping the lights on when night falls on the Moon. The lunar South Pole, where NASA announced plans in March to build humanity’s first long-term Moon base, sees two weeks of total darkness at a time, ...

NJIT Professor Invents Forecasting Method for Extreme Weather

Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Meteorologists could predict hurricanes and analyze tsunamis more accurately and faster than ever, if a New Jersey Institute of Technology engineering professor’s creative software works out as planned. The new technique would run artificial intelligence on a simulation of what’s called a quantum re...

Federal Scholarships Now Available Where AI and Cybersecurity Meet

Friday, August 28th, 2026
Beginning this fall, New Jersey Institute of Technology students who study artificial intelligence and cybersecurity can earn full scholarships in exchange for working in government jobs after graduation. The deal is happening because NJIT was accepted into the National Science Foundation’s new Cybe...

In ‘From Code to Cloud,’ Maura and Fadi Deek Carry Forward the Teaching Legacy of NJIT Professor James McHugh

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
A new textbook by NJIT professors Maura and Fadi Deek and alumnus Wei Yao Ph.D. ’24 brings to completion a project they began with the late James McHugh, a longtime NJIT professor, academic leader and mentor whose influence on computing education at the university spanned decades. Published this sum...

Nanobubble Scientists Convene at NJIT to Share Environmental Research

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the International Conference on Nanobubbles, bringing together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and their customers to consider a technology so small that billions could fit inside a grain of sand. The tiny bubbles are typically used in air, soil and wat...

NJIT Named Among Princeton Review’s Best 392 Colleges for 2027

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is again among the nation’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, earning inclusion in “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” The distinction places NJIT among approximately 14% of the nation’s nearly 2,800 four-year ...