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Unveiling the Biomechanical Forces that Drive Scarring

Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Fibroblasts are the body’s building blocks. Among the most abundant human cells, they help form the structure of organs and tissues and hold them together. They are also its repair crew. After an injury, they migrate to the damaged area, cover it with collagen and exert strong forces that bring the ...

Skin Graft Research Leads Students to Top 8 in Hult Pitch Competition

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Aliza Mujahid, a senior biomedical engineering student, along with mechanical engineering Ph.D. student and research assistant Mohammad Jafari, reached the final round-of-eight in the 2025 U.S. Hult Prize competition for social-minded startup founders. The duo, ...

Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates High-Impact Student Research

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase returned in 2025 to once again highlight the innovative and impactful work of students across disciplines. The event celebrated undergraduate and graduate researchers tackling real-world challenges with creative, technical solutions. Now in its 20th year, the show...

Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Git, the most common protocol for computer programmers to keep track of their code, is becoming more secure because of software jointly developed by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York University. Git underpins services such as GitHub, which alone has more than 100 millio...

An Alarm Clock that Hides From You is Highlight of MakeNJIT Competition

Monday, April 28th, 2025
A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon. The clockmakers earned third place overall among 47 teams from several universities. Members of Tea...

Family Sparks NJIT Scholar's Research into Biomedical Engineering

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Seeing her father struggle through rehabilitation exercises after a stroke made Marina Samuel '25 think, why can’t therapy be more personalized, effective and efficient for the patient? So, with a central focus on patients, she pursued a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute ...

Data Science Major Danielle Grunwald Will Become an Axtria Analyst

Monday, April 21st, 2025
Graduating NJIT senior Danielle Grunwald and her employer as of this summer, Axtria Inc., are made for each other — Grunwald loves digging into life sciences data to extract useful insights, and that’s the gist of what Axtria does. Grunwald is wrapping up her studies with a B.S. in data science fro...

NJIT Scholarship Brunch Offers Unique Experience Connecting Donors and Students

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
The 36th Annual Scholarship Brunch at New Jersey Institute of Technology celebrated a significant milestone this year, welcoming its largest gathering of students and benefactors to date. Donors from across the region and as far away as Sweden convened, united by a shared commitment to empowering th...

3 NJIT Colleges Are Among US News 'Best Graduate Schools'

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
The latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report highlight the national standing of New Jersey Institute of Technology in the fields of engineering, computer science and now business. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) ranks No. 85 on the publication’s list of the Best...

Revealing the Heavy Impacts of Repeated Low-Level Head Traumas

Monday, April 7th, 2025
Soldiers training on heavy artillery and athletes in contact sports are routinely exposed to repetitive mild shockwaves and injuries. Unlike someone who has just dodged a missile explosion or been smacked by a linebacker, they may feel little immediate impact. The cumulative effects of these low-le...
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