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 Jersey Institute of Technology's Newark College of Engineering, she was uncertain about which engineering track would be the right one for her. She ended up choosing mechanical engineering for an unconventional reason.

Concluding our Senior Success series on honorees from the 2026 HCSLA Awards, we spotlight Thomas Omiatek ahead of Commencement 2026.

Academic excellence helped earn Thomas Omiatek the HCSLA Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Mathematical Sciences — but it was the hundreds of hours he spent tutoring peers in the Central King Building that set him apart.

Continuing our Senior Success Series, we’re spotlighting undergraduate seniors honored at the 2026 HCSLA Awards as they prepare for Commencement.

Each spring, NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts honors a select group of graduating seniors who stand out for achievement, leadership and service. 

As part of the 2026 HCSLA Awards, we’re spotlighting three Outstanding Student Award recipients — each with a unique story and big ambitions shaped at NJIT. 

Before she ever toured NJIT, Natalia Peña had already made up her mind.

A scholarship offer from the Albert Dorman Honors College changed what college looked like for Peña and her family, easing the biggest question hanging over her future. “For the first time, my worries about how I would afford college faded,” she recalled in remarks this spring at NJIT’s Scholarship Luncheon.

The Albert Dorman Honors College brought together students, alumni, faculty and staff on April 8 for its second annual Alumni Recognition and Dorman Awards Reception, an evening at NJIT’s Highlander Pub that celebrated achievement across generations of the honors college community.

Engineering has been called "the art of the possible," so it's no wonder that engineers of all types are investigating the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence.

Faculty and student research from NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing abounded at Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, with faculty and dozens of students presenting their timely work.

A trend was the emphasis on unique ways in which AI works — what we collectively understand, what we don’t and what remains mysterious.

Senjuti Basu Roy, associate professor of computer science, along with her doctoral student Subhodeep Ghosh discussed two approaches to mitigating bias in large language models.

The world of commerce was thoroughly represented at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s inaugural Artificial Intelligence Exploration Day, where several faculty and students presented their AI-enabled research covering topics from entrepreneurship to human-machine collaboration to real estate titling.

Presenters represented Martin Tuchman School of Management, the university’s traditionally tech-focused business school that evolved from coursework and student groups at NJIT predecessor Newark College of Engineering as early as the 1920s.

An NJIT student is lead author of a new study that could help physicians standardize methods for diagnosing and treating squamous cell carcinoma of the colon.