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NJIT Celebrates Faculty, Staff in 2025 Nexus of Excellence Awards

Thursday, October 9th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the second annual Nexus of Excellence Awards Oct. 8 in the Campus Center Atrium, celebrating the university’s faculty and staff whose achievements exemplify NJIT’s mission and values. Building on last year’s inaugural ceremony, the 2025 event recogni...

NJIT Designated as a Bee Campus USA Affiliate

Monday, October 6th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been officially recognized as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining a growing network of colleges, universities and communities committed to creating healthy, sustainable habitats for pollinators. “This certification speaks volumes of the ...

NJIT Ranked #1 Public University in NJ for Value, Salary in WSJ's '2026 Best Colleges'

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/College Pulse “2026 Best Colleges” rankings.NJIT achieved strong placement in categories that highlight return on invest...

Leafy Vegetables Are Now Growing on the Roof of NJIT's Campus Center

Monday, September 29th, 2025
A green space is growing on the roof of the Campus Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology. It’s a community garden with five plots, each tended by students, staffers or professors with ample light and water. The output will be vegetables and herbs, with a portion donated to NJIT’s food pantry...

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in sp...

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an...

FIFA Fan Zones: NJIT Architecture Students Reimagine Public Spaces for World Cup

Monday, September 15th, 2025
When the FIFA World Cup kicks off next summer, all eyes will be on the 16 host cities across North America — especially East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the tournament’s final will be played at the 80,000-seat MetLife Stadium. But for Tatiana Florexil ’25, a recent graduate from New Jersey Institu...

NJIT Alumnus Lands Verizon Engineering Role, While Staying Enrolled for M.S.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Most people finish college and then look for full-time employment or enroll in graduate school, but Don Bonifacio did both and is constantly challenging himself to learn new things. Bonifacio graduated in May from New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in computer engineering and was a memb...

NJIT Celebrates Graduates' Impact and Excellence with Alumni Achievement Awards

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
A cornerstone of NJIT’s annual Homecoming Weekend, the Alumni Achievement Awards recognize alumni whose professional and personal achievements stand as a testament to the values instilled at the university. These awards honor individuals for their exceptional accomplishments in fields ranging from t...