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Prominent NJIT and Princeton Alumni Bond

Sunday, May 24th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) alumnus Martin Tuchman, a prominent member of the Princeton, NJ community and a pioneer in the logistics and global trade industry for whom the Martin Tuchman School of Management at NJIT is named, recently connected with another Princeton icon—historic Jeop...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill Tells NJIT Class of 2026 to Dream Big and Build What Comes Next

Friday, May 22nd, 2026
NJIT celebrated its undergraduate Class of 2026 at Prudential Center in Newark, honoring baccalaureate degree candidates from across the university’s colleges in a ceremony centered on service, achievement, alumni connection and the responsibility to use an NJIT education with purpose.The May 22 cer...

Outstanding Senior Samantha Montalbine Acquired Honors, Awards and Confidence

Thursday, May 21st, 2026
Samantha Montalbine '26 always knew that she liked engineering. She was team captain of her middle-school robotics team in Brooklyn, and at Freehold Township High School she took engineering classes and served as president of the Technology Students Association.But when Montalbine applied to New Jer...

Hillier College Studio on Bergen Arches Visualizes a Greenway with Transit for Jersey City

Thursday, May 21st, 2026
Students in Adjunct Professor Vincent Marchetto’s architecture studio are redesigning an abandoned railroad right-of-way in Jersey City as a 21st century urban greenway. Reconnection: The Bergen Arches studio focuses on the mile-long Erie Cut, a 60-foot-wide channel blasted from the live rock of the...

For NJIT’s Master’s and Doctoral Class of 2026, a Charge to Adapt, Persist and Lead

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
NJIT celebrated its master’s and doctoral graduates in two commencement ceremonies that joined academic tradition with messages about resilience, uncertainty, knowledge and the responsibility to use advanced education in service of others.The ceremonies, held May 20 at NJIT’s Bloom Wellness and Even...

NJIT Radio Observations Help Uncover Why Some Solar Eruptions Fail

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
A solar eruption that seemed poised to blast into space instead stalled and collapsed — and radio observations from NJIT’s Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) helped reveal the magnetic forces that brought it down.In a new study, published May 20 in Nature Astronomy, an international team of r...

NJIT Postdoc Tracks Electrons from Solar Flares to Deep Space, Honored for Dissertation Research

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Solar flares are among the most violent events in the solar system, releasing energy equivalent to millions of hydrogen bombs and propelling particles to near-light speed in seconds.Yet only a small fraction of those particles ever escapes into interplanetary space. Why do so few make it out of the ...

Jessica Dineen Found Her Design Voice at NJIT — and She’s Taking It to NYC

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026
Jessica Dineen did not arrive at NJIT expecting to become an interior designer. But over time, she found a field that matched the way she wanted to think, create and solve problems.Now, as the Bronx native and first-generation college graduate prepares to begin her next chapter as a junior designer ...

Senior Success: Mia LoRe Heads to Bronx DA’s Digital Forensics Lab

Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
After Mia LoRe walks across the stage at Commencement 2026, she’ll step right into a new career in digital forensics with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.This summer, LoRe will join the Bronx DA’s Digital Forensics Lab as a Digital Forensic Examiner II, examining digital evidence tied to crimin...

Zac Kuzak and Mikayla Balio Nominated for America East Man, Woman of the Year

Tuesday, May 19th, 2026
NJIT men's swimming and diving senior Zac Kuzak and women's soccer senior Mikayla Balio have been nominated for the 2025-26 America East Man and Woman of the Year awards, the conference office announced Thursday.The honor recognizes senior or graduate student-athletes who have distinguished themselv...