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...

NJIT to Shape Roadmap for Nation’s First EV Battery Management Law

Thursday, August 20th, 2026
By 2030, as many as 12 million metric tons of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries could reach the end of their first useful life worldwide each year. Now, NJIT researchers are helping New Jersey become the first state to answer a question: How can retired electric vehicle batteries be safely manag...

New AI Model Detects Hidden Signs of Solar Eruptions Hours Before They Emerge

Friday, August 14th, 2026
Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun's surface, a new active region — where powerful solar eruptions can originate — begins showing subtle signs of its formation.   Now, researchers say a new artificial intelligence model can detect those early signals and forecast the emergence of solar...

Innovation, Invention and Impact: NJIT Undergrads Present Summer Research

Thursday, August 13th, 2026
NJIT undergraduate researchers had just three minutes each to explain 10 weeks of work. In rapid succession, students took the stage in the Campus Center Ballroom to describe projects spanning bioscience, bioengineering, materials, sustainability, artificial intelligence, robotics and data science. ...

Scientists Simulate Ant Swarms, Find a Single Ant Can Set the Colony in Motion

Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
In ant colonies, a single ant can be the catalyst for a wave of mob activity, launching brief bursts of coordinated movement involving hundreds or even thousands of swarming workers, according to new simulations from New Jersey Institute of Technology.  About three decades ago, biologists disco...

NJIT Appoints Moshe Kam Interim Provost

Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the appointment of Moshe Kam, Dean of NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as the university’s Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, effectiv...

Investing in a STEM Future: NJIT Pre-College Program Supports Standout Students

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026
Forensic science. Robotics. Clean air technologies. Essays about these and other STEM topics recently earned five outstanding middle and high school students scholarships to NJIT summer programs, awarded by the university's Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP). The Kelly A. O'Connor, '94, '96, '03...

NJIT's Zeyuan Qiu Named Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Monday, July 6th, 2026
Zeyuan Qiu, professor of environmental science and chair of NJIT's Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, has been named a Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS). The honor is one of the highest the organization bestows, recognizing exceptional leadership and contributi...