Emerging partner Verizon Communications, Inc., has an interest in what NJIT, the largest polytechnic university in New Jersey with R1 status (highest level of research), can do to take their technology farther and faster than ever before.
Students at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have again achieved an impressive amount of prestigious awards this year with 16 students earning nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Their achievement continues an NJIT run, with Highlanders amassing 47(and counting) of these awards in the past three years.
NJIT’s annual Scholarship Luncheon is meant to celebrate donor generosity. This year, it also pointed to what comes next.
The event brings together scholarship benefactors, alumni and student recipients, creating space for the kinds of conversations that remind people what scholarship support really does.
Several Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) faculty members in the Department of Informatics and their student collaborators presented award-winning research papers at the ACM CHI 2026 conference in Barcelona, Spain during the month of April.
Several New Jersey Institute of Technology leaders have been recognized in BINJE’s inaugural "BINJE’s Best: Higher Education" honorees list, a statewide package highlighting the people and programs shaping New Jersey’s higher education ecosystem.
A one-day design sprint at NJIT challenged students to think like engineers, designers and problem-solvers for a wider range of users.
At CADence: An Additive Design Jam, held April 18 in the NJIT Makerspace, six teams spent the day designing and prototyping assistive technology concepts aimed at improving everyday accessibility. Working in medical, transportation and community tracks, students used CAD software, 3D printing and electrical components to build modular devices intended to respond to real-world challenges.
A dose of artificial intelligence is helping New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers make sense of how crowds and the individuals within them move around, leading to insights with applications in fields such as emergency management, pedestrian traffic planning, robotics, special effects and even videogames.
Tomer Weiss, assistant professor of Informatics in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, leads the research with graduate students to see if AI can complement their understanding of the movement patterns in useful ways.
NJIT’s Dana Knox Research Showcase filled the Bloom Wellness and Events Center with student research spanning science, engineering, computing, management and the humanities. With poster presentations, two-minute elevator speeches and Board Day luncheon attendees moving through the event, the showcase offered a cross-disciplinary snapshot of research activity across the university.
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 water on the darkest regions of the planet for use in future landings.
Gurmeher Singh, a sophomore computer science major with a minor in AI in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and Albert Dorman Honors College, was the sole NJIT student for the second year to be one of 1,000 accepted from major universities, including Ivy Leagues, out of 15,000 applications to Stanford University’s TreeHacks 2026. The highly selective competition is a touchstone among top hackathons across the world.
