Michael Vaks ’19 on Building the Software Behind Meta Wearables

Friday, October 30th, 2026
At Meta, Michael Vaks ’19 helps solve the engineering problems behind an everyday expectation: a device should respond when someone needs it. As a staff software engineer on the company’s Core UX / System UX team, he builds foundational software for wearable devices, including AI and display glasses...

Improving Community Water Through Citizen Science

Friday, October 23rd, 2026
Lead is a neurotoxin, particularly dangerous to infants and children. In 2017, when tests revealed hazardous levels of the heavy metal in Newark’s water, the city raced to replace more than 18,000 lead service lines in record time. While federal, state and city officials responded to the infrastruct...

NJIT Historian’s Book Reveals Untold Legal History of U.S. Nuclear Blasts in Marshall Islands

Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Less than nine years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon roughly 1,000 times more powerful roughly 2,600 miles away, in the Marshall Islands. The March 1, 1954, Castle Bravo blast at Bikini Atoll — the largest nuclear detonation in U.S. history — sent ...

Life on the River

Thursday, October 1st, 2026
The balance between commerce and recreation, always tricky for urban waterways, tipped long ago on the polluted lower stretches of the Passaic River. In sections of Newark, the river and its tributaries are channelized and mostly lost to view, obscured by dense tree stands and scrubby undergrowth. N...

NJIT’s Sara Zapico Named National Higher Education Forensic Science Educator of the Year

Friday, September 25th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology forensic scientist Sara C. Zapico has been named the 2026 Senator John Cornyn III National Higher Education Forensic Science Educator of the Year by the Consortium of Forensic Science Organizations, recognizing her contributions to forensic science education. Surro...

NJIT Alum Ayeh Khalil Earns Fulbright Research Grant for Public Health Study in Jordan

Thursday, September 24th, 2026
Ayeh T. Khalil ’20, an alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Albert Dorman Honors College and Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student research grant to conduct a 10-month public health study in Amman, Jordan. Khalil’s project, A Health Systems Ap...

NJIT Students’ Plan to Power the Moon with Swarm Robots Wins NASA Prize

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026
NASA wants to establish sustained human presence on the lunar surface, but Houston has a problem — keeping the lights on when night falls on the Moon. The lunar South Pole, where NASA announced plans in March to build humanity’s first long-term Moon base, sees two weeks of total darkness at a time, ...

NJIT Double Major Pablo Leyva Takes on Human-AI Interaction at Apple

Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
During his second summer as an Apple intern, Pablo Leyva worked at the point where artificial intelligence meets the person holding an iPhone. The NJIT applied mathematics and computer science double major contributed to a customer-facing project involving Apple Wallet’s 18 products, Siri modeling a...

NJIT Professor Invents Forecasting Method for Extreme Weather

Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Meteorologists could predict hurricanes and analyze tsunamis more accurately and faster than ever, if a New Jersey Institute of Technology engineering professor’s creative software works out as planned. The new technique would run artificial intelligence on a simulation of what’s called a quantum re...

MSI Students See Mathematics — and Their Potential — Differently After Screening 'Counted Out'

Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
For students in New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Math Success Initiative, a recent documentary screening offered a different way to think about mathematics — not simply as a subject to master, but as something that shapes opportunities, decisions and everyday life. The students gathered in Westo...