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NJIT Distinguished Cybersecurity Expert is a Panelist at AARP New Jersey 2025 Fraud Summit

Sunday, September 21st, 2025
Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science participated as a panelist at AARP New Jersey’s 2025 Fraud Summit: Decoding Fraud in the Age of AI. He previously spoke at the AARP Fraud Summit: Fraud 360 – Awareness, Prevention & Recovery in spring 2...

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's Fall Career Fair Connects Thousands of Students with Employers

Friday, September 19th, 2025
More than 3,300 students and alumni filled the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center and Naimoli Tennis Center on Sept. 17 for NJIT’s Fall 2025 Career Fair, one of the largest STEM-focused career fairs in the region. Nearly 240 organizations — spanning engineering, computing, architectur...

Oak Hall Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks Major Milestone in NJIT Campus Growth

Friday, September 19th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) officially broke ground today on the reconstruction of Oak Hall, a 16-floor, 191,000-square-foot residence hall comprising 453 beds across 154 apartment-style units when it opens in summer 2027. The project will expand NJIT’s housing capacity by 275 beds and...

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...

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins during this year’s Bank of America (BOA) Codeathon to an...

Search for Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Dear Highlanders, I am pleased to announce that NJIT has launched a national search for our next Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. To guide this important effort, we have engaged WittKieffer, a nationally respected executive search firm with deep expertise in higher education...

NJIT Leaders Named to NJBIZ's 2025 Education Power List

Monday, September 15th, 2025
Three members of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s leadership are included in NJBIZ’s 2025 Education Power List, which highlights influential figures shaping the state’s education landscape.  The annual list emphasizes the people navigating higher education’s shifting environment — balancin...

YWCC Student–Faculty Team Wins Best Presentation Award for Ant Swarm Simulation

Monday, September 15th, 2025
Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how engineering materials, traffic control and multi-agent robots are made and utilized, thanks to research conducted by recent graduate Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor...

FIFA Fan Zones: NJIT Architecture Students Reimagine Public Spaces for World Cup

Monday, September 15th, 2025
When the FIFA World Cup kicks off next summer, all eyes will be on the 16 host cities across North America — especially East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the tournament’s final will be played at the 80,000-seat MetLife Stadium. But for Tatiana Florexil ’25, a recent graduate from New Jersey Institu...
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