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As the New York/New Jersey region prepares to welcome visitors for the FIFA World Cup 2026, New Jersey Institute of Technology have expanded NJIT’s earlier fan sentiment work into a public-facing digital hub designed to help fans navigate the tournament experience.

An orthopedic total joint knee replacement is not a hinge.It bends, rolls, glides and rotates. It bears the force of walking, climbing stairs, rising from a chair and living an active life. It has to mimic naturally enough to restore function, but remain stable enough to last. Its materials must survive millions of cycles inside the body, where the smallest design decisions can affect wear, inflammation, bone loss, loosening and pain.That was the kind of problem Michael J. Pappas ’59, ’64 helped solve.

Before she ever toured NJIT, Natalia Peña had already made up her mind.A scholarship offer from the Albert Dorman Honors College changed what college looked like for Peña and her family, easing the biggest question hanging over her future. “For the first time, my worries about how I would afford college faded,” she recalled in remarks this spring at NJIT’s Scholarship Luncheon.

One of the most pervasive global pollution problems of the 21st century is a group of human-made chemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Used since the late 1930s in consumer and industrial products to repel water and resist stains, these compounds earned the nickname "forever chemicals" because they don't naturally break down over time. As a result, PFAS has accumulated for decades in air, water and soil worldwide.

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.

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.

For Naketa “KET-A” Williams ’26, artificial intelligence is not just about what systems like ChatGPT can do — it is about whose stories, languages and values they carry.That idea will soon take Williams to Jamaica as a Fulbright recipient, where she will join a national initiative advancing culturally grounded AI development.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) historian and master teacher Neil Maher has been named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, becoming the first faculty member in university history to receive the national honor.Selected from more than 380 nominees nationwide, Maher is one of only 24 scholars chosen for the fellowship this year, which awards up to $200,000 to support original research in the humanities and social sciences.This year’s fellowship theme focuses on scholarship examining political division and civic cohesion in American life.

Freshman Blake Piscitiello has been named the 2026 America East Rookie of the Year, headlining a group of six NJIT Highlanders who earned All-Conference recognition, the league office announced Wednesday.

Students won the Real World Impact award at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s spring 2026 Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day not for what they built, but for how they built it.The team of Bartek Broclawik, Matthew Sudol, Pola Szwaczka and Om Vaghasiya knew that autonomous vehicles are an established technology. Yet in designing one of their own, in the form of a toy-sized model, they employed heavy use of AI to develop it and created a trail of lessons for anyone in the NJIT community to learn.