When the vessel “King Gizzard” lined up for the final round of NJIT’s STEM Success Academy boat race, the stakes weren’t high in the traditional sense — just a stream of air and a small plastic boat floating on a narrow water track in NJIT’s Makerspace. But what was at play was far bigger: creativity, collaboration and the confidence to think differently. Josh Rutka, a recent transfer student from Raritan Valley Community College and now a full-time mechanical engineering major at NJIT, drew on his years of experience in FIRST Robotics to help lead his team toward an unconventional design.…

New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a national robotics competition next month at its Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. About 1,000 high school students from eight states — including New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania — and Canada will vie for prizes and the chance to advance to a global competition in May 2026. The competitors — who’ll come from as far as California, Washington, Texas and Utah — have constructed robots for a game that will be played at NJIT, with referees to ensure that they follow the rules and judges to award prizes. The judges…

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 member of Albert Dorman Honors College. He now works at Verizon planning behind-the-scenes engineering for their fiber optic network and is simultaneously continuing in the NJIT computer engineering department this fall for a master’s degree in his field. While an undergraduate, Bonifacio also found…

Nefferty Santiago ’95, ’99 still remembers her first days at NJIT as part of the Educational Opportunity Program’s (EOPs) eight-week academic bootcamp, which introduced her to the rigors of academic life.  “Coming from a small all-girls Catholic high school in Union City, attending NJIT was a culture shock,” she said. “EOP was intense — living on campus, maintaining a rigorous schedule even sharing a hallway phone to call home. But EOP provided me with a community. I was with other Latino students and that brought me comfort. EOP provided me with a strong academic foundation plus the…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the second-highest rating in Money’s 2025 list of the best universities in the U.S. At 4 ½ stars, NJIT is tied for the highest rated public institution and trails only Princeton University in New Jersey. NJIT is also featured in Money’s national list of the Best Public Colleges. In its profile of NJIT, Money describes the university as a “launchpad for future engineers and architects” with a diverse study body and undergraduates who “primarily attend for the stellar technical education,” adding: Most classes are small (particularly for…

The Princeton Review continues to recognize New Jersey Institute of Technology as one of the best universities in the U.S. NJIT is featured in this year’s edition of the educational services company’s guide, The Best 391 Colleges. Just 15% of all four-year colleges and universities made the guide, which NJIT has been in since its inception in 1992. The selections are listed alphabetically. The Princeton Review also recognizes NJIT in a string of national ”best” lists, including Top 50 Best Value Colleges (Public Schools), Top 20 Best Career Placement (Public Schools), Top 50 Game Design:…

This story is republished from NSF Access Science Stories, and is authored by Kimberly Mann Bruch, SDSC, and co-authored by Jack Imel, University of Alaska Southeast undergraduate student. Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the University of Florida have made a groundbreaking discovery about how blood flows through the tiniest new blood vessels in our bodies, findings that could revolutionize our understanding of everything from wound healing to cancer treatment. Using powerful supercomputer simulations, they’ve revealed that individual red blood cells create…

Written by: Andrew McMains and Tracey Regan Published: Tuesday, August 5, 2025 .authorship {display: none} The Research & Development Council of New Jersey is recognizing medical technology developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Stryker executive Robert C. Cohen’s leadership in surgical device and robotics innovation. Cohen, who holds three degrees from NJIT and chairs its Board of Trustees, is president of digital robotics and enabling technologies at Stryker. He and NJIT will be honored at the council’s annual Edison Patent Awards ceremony in November.…

Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. In research published in “Cell Reports Physical Science”, the NJIT team led by Professor Dibakar Datta successfully applied generative AI techniques to rapidly discover new porous materials capable of revolutionizing multivalent-ion batteries. These batteries, using abundant elements like magnesium, calcium, aluminum and zinc, offer a promising, cost-effective…

When alumnus Shail Khiyara talks about agentic AI, he isn’t just introducing another tech trend. He’s making a bold case for a fundamental shift in how humans and machines collaborate to solve problems, make decisions and create lasting value. “For years, we’ve built AI that waits for a prompt,” he says. “But real intelligence adapts. It collaborates. It has intent.” This belief, shaped over a decades-long career at the frontlines of enterprise technology, has made Khiyara a prominent voice in intelligent automation and, now, agentic AI systems. In his latest book, “Agentic Artificial…