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Gary Lauterbach ’78 Never Stopped Tinkering, His Gift Helps NJIT Students Do the Same

Friday, October 9th, 2026
The first computers Gary Lauterbach encountered were not in a classroom. As a teenager in Livingston, New Jersey, he spent Wednesday evenings at Bell Laboratories in Whippany with a Boy Scout Explorer post. The Bell Labs employee supervising the group was unusually permissive. Lauterbach and his fri...

NJIT Celebrates Alumni Achievement and Teaching Excellence at Homecoming Celebration

Monday, October 5th, 2026
From developing water purification technologies and advanced computer systems to strengthening public health and educating future leaders, this year’s NJIT award recipients have built careers solving complex problems and creating opportunities for others. The university will celebrate their accompli...

Shilpa Mukhopadhyay - ECE PhD Student of the Month - October 2026

Monday, October 5th, 2026
Shilpa Mukhopadhyay is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at NJIT, where she is pursuing her doctoral studies under the guidance of Dr. Arnob Ghosh. Her research interests focus on developing safe and robust reinforcement learning (RL) agents, with an em...

Finding Signals, Ignoring Noise: NJIT PhD Grad Helps AI Detect Hate Speech

Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Count from one up to fifty. Simple, right? Now try that while watching a video about the history of math and listening to a song about multiplication, as ten nearby people shout random numbers. Not so easy, is it? When you're surrounded by distractions, focusing on one task can be a challenge — for...

NJIT Hosts International High School Robotics Tournament, Sending Three to World Champs

Wednesday, September 30th, 2026
High school robotics teams from Vancouver, B.C., Irvine, Calif. and Flushing, N.Y. won the 2026 Highlander Summit at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Wellness and Events Center this fall. The summit is a major competition on the Vex Robotics circuit, with the winners besting 94 others to advance...

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, ...

Tanima Bal - ECE PhD Student of the Month - September 2026

Monday, August 31st, 2026
Tanima Bal is a Ph.D. student of Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where she has been pursuing her doctoral studies since January 2025 under the guidance of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research interests include power-system monitoring, machine-learning applications in power systems, and soft...

Ahmad Azuad Yaseer - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2026

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Ahmad Azuad Yaseer is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he is advised by Dr. Dong-Kyun Ko. His research focuses on the development of field-effect-gated lead selenide colloidal quantum dot (PbSe CQD)-based photodiod...

NJIT Hosts National Conversation on AI and the Future of First-Year Engineering

Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Engineering educators and students from institutions across the country gathered at New Jersey Institute of Technology for the 2026 First-Year Engineering Experience Conference, examining how universities can prepare beginning engineers for a profession — and an educational environment — being resha...

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...