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 Jeopardy! champion and Princeton University grad Jamie Ding.
When Sepehr Rahimi came to NJIT to study cell and gene therapy, he was looking for more than classroom knowledge. He wanted to work where science met real-world application.
He found that connection quickly. An NJIT experience shaped by industry led him to an internship at BioCentriq, then to a full-time role as the organization grew and evolved into MADE Scientific.
As the New York/New Jersey region prepares to welcome visitors for the FIFA World Cup 2026, New Jersey Institute of Technology have expanded NJIT’s earlier fan sentiment work into a public-facing digital hub designed to help fans navigate the tournament experience.
NJIT’s Homer Bonitsis, associate professor of finance in Martin Tuchman School of Management, was awarded the 2026 Lifetime Service Award from the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute.
NEDSI members methodically study the planning, execution and evaluation of organizational decision-making.
Over multiple decades, Bonitsis served in several NEDSI leadership roles such as campus representative, conference presenter, paper reviewer, and session/track chair. He was elected NEDSI president and served from 2023-2024.
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.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named two NJIT faculty members — Cesar Bandera, master teacher and Leir Endowed Chair for Entrepreneurship, and Sara Zapico, assistant professor of forensic science — to the 2026 class of Senior Members. They are among 230 emerging academic inventors from 82 member institutions selected for demonstrated success in producing technologies that have been patented, licensed, commercialized, or possess strong potential for real-world impact.
NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management joined the Fortune top business schools and MBA programs list for the first time, ranked No. 62 nationwide.
With its high-tech slant and proximity to Wall Street, the Newark institution’s management department is ranked near the top this year, compared to more than 500 schools with AACSB accreditation and more than 1,000 colleges offering MBA degrees overall.
For the fifth year running, NJIT’s Startup Job Fair brought a buzz to campus, as hundreds of students turned out to meet face-to-face with CEOs of local startups inside the Central King Building recently.
The space hummed with activity, drawing a strong turnout of early-stage companies eager to connect with NJIT’s entrepreneurial-minded talent.
Newark Regional Business Partnership announced that Oya Tukel, dean of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, is the newest member on its board of directors.
Why did the rotisserie chicken cross the aisle — and end up in your shopping cart? A theoretical model created by an NJIT researcher suggests that customers prefer finding the freshest items at the front of the displays.
