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Outstanding Senior Samantha Montalbine Acquired Honors, Awards and Confidence

Thursday, May 21st, 2026
Samantha Montalbine '26 always knew that she liked engineering. She was team captain of her middle-school robotics team in Brooklyn, and at Freehold Township High School she took engineering classes and served as president of the Technology Students Association. But when Montalbine applied to New Je...

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 Eve...

Zac Kuzak and Mikayla Balio Nominated for America East Man, Woman of the Year

Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
NJIT men's swimming and diving senior Zac Kuzak and women's soccer senior Mikayla Balio have been nominated for the 2025-26 America East Man and Woman of the Year awards, the conference office announced Thursday. The honor recognizes senior or graduate student-athletes who have distinguished themsel...

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, emp...

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 sc...

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, Ma...

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 analy...

Can NJ Be PFAS-Free? New Consortium Launches at NJIT to Eradicate 'Forever Chemicals'

Thursday, May 7th, 2026
One of the most pervasive global pollution problems of the 21st century is a group of human-made chemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Used since the late 1930s in consumer and industrial products to repel water and resist stains, these compounds earned the nickname "forever c...

How Natalia Peña Turned Opportunity into Human-Centered Impact at NJIT

Thursday, May 7th, 2026
Before she ever toured NJIT, Natalia Peña had already made up her mind. A scholarship offer from the Albert Dorman Honors College changed what college looked like for Peña and her family, easing the biggest question hanging over her future. “For the first time, my worries about how I would afford co...