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NJIT and NJII Launch PureTrace Labs to Commercialize PFAS Detection Technology

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) today announced the launch of PureTrace Labs, a startup created to bring NJIT-developed technology for rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to market.The company marks the first official...

NJIT Alumnus to Shape Environmental Policymaking as NYS Science Policy Fellow

Monday, October 6th, 2025
Jose Antunes ’19, ’20, ’25 spent nearly a decade at NJIT conducting research on the front lines of the fight against environmental pollution. Now, he’s among a select group of six scientists recently named New York State Science Policy Fellows, where his expertise will help shape science-based polic...

NJIT Ranked #1 Public University in NJ for Value, Salary in WSJ's '2026 Best Colleges'

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/College Pulse “2026 Best Colleges” rankings.NJIT achieved strong placement in categories that highlight return on invest...

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions. The new placement marks a four-spot rise from last year ...

From Argentina to NJIT: Fulbright Scholar Tackles Forensic Cases of the Unidentified

Friday, September 19th, 2025
There are currently over 13,000 unsolved forensic cases aiming to identify unknown human remains in the U.S. alone (NamUs, 2025), but NJIT graduate researcher Maria Castagnola is helping pioneer new DNA-based forensic methods that may one day lead to breakthroughs. Castagnola, a native of Argentina...

NJIT Alum Sriya Chinthalapudi Joins Osmo, in the Olfactory Sciences

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Some might be surprised to learn that a startup company digitizes scents, but making scents made sense to Sriya Chinthalapudi, who in high school became enthralled by a TED talk about detecting diseases from a person’s odor and spent many hours learning more on her own. She shared that memory in sp...

Soot's Climate-Altering Properties Change Within Hours of Entering Atmosphere

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth’s atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a year — posing a climate-warming impact previously estimated at almost one-third that of carbon dioxide. Now, researchers say the climate-altering properties of these particles can...

NJIT Alumnus Lands Verizon Engineering Role, While Staying Enrolled for M.S.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
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 memb...

Forensics Team from NJIT Uses Cellphone Location Data to Help Free Wrongly Accused

Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
For more than a year, Ray Wooden sat in a Pennsylvania jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, he’s free after two recent graduates and a current student of NJIT’s forensic science program uncovered key digital evidence that helped clear his name. Wooden’s ordeal began in January 2024, after he tip...

NJIT Researchers Develop Rapid Method to Detect Micro- and Nanoplastics in Seconds

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Microplastics and nanoplastics — tiny fragments shed from everyday plastic products — are increasingly found in our food, water, soil and even inside the human body. Their accumulation has been linked to fertility issues, metabolic disorders and other potential health risks in animal models. Yet det...