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...

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, ...

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...

The Art of Making a Difference

Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Ron Dooley '64 remembers helping on his father’s milk route in Linden with the kind of hindsight that turns an old complaint into something like gratitude. At 12, he was not especially eager to get up before dawn and do the work of Dooley’s Dairy. But what felt then like a chore now looks more like ...

Nanobubble Scientists Convene at NJIT to Share Environmental Research

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the International Conference on Nanobubbles, bringing together scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and their customers to consider a technology so small that billions could fit inside a grain of sand. The tiny bubbles are typically used in air, soil and wat...

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. ...

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...