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The Whole System: How an NJIT Engineer Built a Career on Seeing Every Part of the Picture

Monday, April 13th, 2026
When Chris Wunderlich was finishing his final semester at New Jersey Institute of Technology, he had two job offers sitting in front of him. One was from Picatinny Arsenal, the U.S. Army's premier research and manufacturing hub for weapons systems, where he would have gone deep into warhead design. ...

YWCC Student Hopes Her NASA Supported Mission Project Makes It to the Dark Side of the Moon

Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
With the launch of the Artemis II mission to the Moon on April 1, a group of students led by project manager Jasmine Geo, a junior computer science major with a minor in applied mathematics and an Honors College scholar, will be busy recreating a lunar mission using a lunar surface vehicle to find w...

Undergrad’s Putnam Score Tops NJIT Records — and His Wildest Dreams

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Undergrad Aiden Finley Lim ’29 woke up the morning after participating in the nation’s toughest undergraduate math competition with a number stuck in his head — one that, as it turned out, he would surpass on his way into NJIT record books.Lim, a mechanical engineering major in the Albert Dorman Hon...

From Brain Mapping to Drone Swarms, AI Connect Minds and Challenges Makers at NCE

Friday, March 27th, 2026
Engineering has been called "the art of the possible," so it's no wonder that engineers of all types are investigating the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence. At New Jersey Institute of Technology's AI Exploration Day, an all-day and campus-wide event held on March 26, presenters from ...

Computer Science and Data Science Tame AI at NJIT

Thursday, March 26th, 2026
Faculty and student research from NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing abounded at Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, with faculty and dozens of students presenting their timely work.A trend was the emphasis on unique ways in which AI works — what we collectively understand, what we don’t and w...

Entrepreneurship Meets Artificial Intelligence at NJIT

Thursday, March 26th, 2026
The world of commerce was thoroughly represented at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s inaugural Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, where several faculty and students presented their AI-enabled research covering topics from entrepreneurship to human-machine collaboration to real estate titli...

At NJIT, Undergrad Mentors Support Annual eSTEM Challenge

Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
Students come to New Jersey Institute of Technology to learn — but they also have a chance to teach. A group of NJIT undergraduate and graduate students recently shared their STEM expertise with students in grades 3 to 5 from dozens of New Jersey schools, providing guidance as teams experimente...

'Living Parks by Parks for People' Wins Branch Brook Park Biodiversity Proposal Challenge

Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
A student proposal focused on restoring biodiversity, strengthening the Second River edge and deepening community engagement at Branch Brook Park was selected as the winning concept in NJIT’s latest Albert Dorman Honors College biodiversity initiative. The proposal, “Living Parks by Parks for P...

Biomed Engineering Student at NJIT Shines a Light on Rare Colon Cancer

Thursday, March 19th, 2026
Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in the U.S., with more than 100,000 cases diagnosed each year. But some people develop a highly aggressive form of colon cancer that is extremely rare, making up 0.02% to 0.1% of all colon cancers.Known as squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the colon, it ...

Newark Mayor’s and Bloom Scholars Empower High School Students Through Research

Thursday, February 19th, 2026
During the recent Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, high school students from Newark’s Science Park High School worked alongside students from NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College as part of a service project, which allowed them to present their research on the effects of litter and street pol...