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New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for New Grads 2026, earning a place among the nation’s top workplaces for early-career professionals. It stands as the only higher education institution in New Jersey included among the state’s recognized employers.

NJIT’s David Bader, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Data Science, was recently named one of the industry’s most influential researchers by Scientific Computing World.

Students from Albert Dorman Honors College courses presented their semester’s research during the fifth Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, showcasing projects that ranged from bias in generative artificial intelligence to engineering responses for environmental challenges along Newark’s waterways.

Curiosity, an interest in computers and an affinity for problem-solving brought Adam Mariano '26 to New Jersey Institute of Technology, leading them to a major in computer engineering. But they also found space for their lifelong love of music, performing on the viola with the NJIT String Ensemble. Their academic and extracurricular achievements at NJIT recently earned them the Newark College of Engineering Departmental Outstanding Senior Award for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented at a ceremony held on April 16, 2026.

Software that will harden the security of AI-developed code is being developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology, funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant.NJIT professors Zephyr Yao and Iulian Neamtiu decided they’d seen enough of the downside of programming assisted by artificial intelligence — that this increasingly common process creates too many bugs — so they’re taking action now before it is too late.

Senior Jason Ballen and freshmen Eatoniel Brown and Jessie Fotheringham have officially qualified for the 2026 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Champions

NJIT celebrated its undergraduate Class of 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, honoring baccalaureate degree candidates from across the university’s colleges in a ceremony centered on service, achievement, alumni connection and the responsibility to use an NJIT education with purpose.

Students in Adjunct Professor Vincent Marchetto’s architecture studio are redesigning an abandoned railroad right-of-way in Jersey City as a 21st century urban greenway. Reconnection: The Bergen Arches studio focuses on the mile-long Erie Cut, a 60-foot-wide channel blasted from the live rock of the Palisades to a depth of 40–75 feet and crossed by four monumental arches.

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 Jersey Institute of Technology's Newark College of Engineering, she was uncertain about which engineering track would be the right one for her. She ended up choosing mechanical engineering for an unconventional reason.

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.