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A live Bloomberg Radio broadcast from NJIT put the university’s environmental research into a much wider public conversation, as hosts Scarlet Fu and Paul Sweeney brought their weekday “Bloomberg Intelligence” program to campus and mixed NJIT faculty and researchers into the show’s regular coverage.

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.

Jordan Hu ’89 returned to NJIT for a fireside chat that moved beyond career success to examine the harder realities behind entrepreneurship, the value of trust in leadership and the university experience he said made his American dream possible.

Greetings from New Jersey.A state of political bosses who inspired HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Of eerie legends like the Jersey Devil and the 1916 Matawan shark attacks. Of shorelines, small towns and highways that became the backdrop for Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run.Next fall, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will become the place to study them all.

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. The other was from DeSisti, an Italian lighting and rigging company headquartered on Route 22 in North Jersey. He took the job with the Italians.

The NJIT men's volleyball swept the weekend series from visiting Charleston (WV) 3-1 Saturday afternoon in EIVA Conference men's volleyball action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center.With the win, NJIT moves to 16-8 overall on the season, 7-3 in the EIVA. The Highlanders are one of three Division I teams undefeated at home (12-0) joining UCLA (9-0) and Maryland Eastern Shore (8-0).NJIT, which hit .286 for the match, dropped the first set 25-17 but bounced back in the next three sets to secure the 3-1 home victory, 31-29, 25-15 and 25-22.

The Albert Dorman Honors College brought together students, alumni, faculty and staff on April 8 for its second annual Alumni Recognition and Dorman Awards Reception, an evening at NJIT’s Highlander Pub that celebrated achievement across generations of the honors college community.

High school students from across the region brought engineering concepts off the page and into practice at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s David Good 3D Printed Bridge Competition, where high school teams were challenged to design, assemble and test 3D-printed bridges under real performance criteria.

Engineering students at New Jersey Institute of Technology waste no time turning ideas into reality. From their first semester, NJIT undergraduates are challenged with imagining and designing technologies that explore practical applications for engineering principles. On March 6, students from the Newark College of Engineering (NCE) gathered to share their work at the 2026 First Year Engineering Design Showcase.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced that New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and be the featured speaker at the university’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2026, at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. NJIT also announced the full slate of honorary degree recipients here.