'Living Parks by Parks for People' Wins Branch Brook Park Biodiversity Proposal Challenge

Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
A student proposal focused on restoring biodiversity, strengthening the Second River edge and deepening community engagement at Branch Brook Park was selected as the winning concept in NJIT’s latest Albert Dorman Honors College biodiversity initiative. The proposal, “Living Parks by Parks for Peopl...

NJIT Physicists Trace Sun’s Magnetic Engine, 200,000 Kilometers Below Surface

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
In an analysis of nearly three decades of solar acoustic data, NJIT physicists report evidence that the solar dynamo — the magnetic engine powering the Sun’s 11-year cycles and eruptive events — operates nearly 200,000 kilometers beneath the Sun’s surface. Every eleven years, the Sun’s magnetic fiel...

Alumna Blazes Trail from NJIT Forensics Program to NJ State Troopers’ Exclusive Ranks

Friday, February 27th, 2026
On a normal day, Trooper Zoe Welch ’24 pulls out of her station and steers her cruiser along the pine-lined highways and backroads cutting through southern New Jersey. For Welch, it’s a routine patrol — but also a very different path from NJIT peers who graduated with STEM degrees alongside her just...

NJIT Faculty Named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors

Thursday, February 26th, 2026
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named two NJIT faculty members — Cesar Bandera, master teacher and Leir Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurship, and Sara Zapico, assistant professor of forensic science — to the 2026 class of Senior Members. They are among 230 emerging academic inventors from ...

NJIT's Center for Translational Research Quickens Technology's Pace to Market

Monday, February 9th, 2026
Richard Calbi, director of Ridgewood Water, was astonished to discover the extent of PFAS contamination in New Jersey drinking water when the state adopted pollution standards for the industrial chemicals in 2020. “The first thing we did was determine if we were affected and found them in every one...

Hillier College Provides Art Courses for All Students with Arts@NJIT Initiative

Thursday, January 15th, 2026
From Leonardo da Vinci to Nam Jun Paik to Lillian Schwartz, art and technology have a long and intertwined relationship. Beginning in spring 2026, all NJIT students will have the opportunity to explore this productive feedback loop. Thanks to a generous gift from NJIT alumnus Ron Dooley (Mechanical ...

NJIT Researchers Discover Long-Hidden Source of Gamma Rays Unleashed by Solar Flares

Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth’s nearest star produces its most violent eruptions. In findings published in Nature Astronomy, scientists at NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have pinpointed a previously unknown clas...

New Course to Give Students Deeper Insights into Middle East Conflicts

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
This spring, NJIT students will have the opportunity to gain a richer picture of the complex history and politics of the Middle East that continue to shape today’s headlines, drive foreign policy debates and affect global stability. A new course opening next semester, “Middle East Conflicts: State B...

How NJIT Graduate Student Jaimee Diogo Is Transforming STEM Futures Through ‘STEM Like a Girl’

Monday, November 24th, 2025
The kinetic sculptures were supposed to spin gently when the girls turned on their hair dryers. But as soon as the first creation twirled into motion — foil shimmering, ribbons fluttering — the whole room lit up. A crowd of elementary-aged girls leaned in, laughing as their sculptures wobbled, spun ...

NJIT Scientists Track Recent Solar Flare Disruptions in Earth’s Ionosphere

Friday, November 21st, 2025
As this month’s string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant aurorae that lit up skies across an unusually wide swath of the globe — from northern Europe to Florida — researchers at NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) captured a less visible, but crucial, record of the s...