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 Palisades to a depth of 40–75 feet and crossed by four monumental arches.
During the recent Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum, high school students from Newark’s Science Park High School worked alongside students from NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College as part of a service project, which allowed them to present their research on the effects of litter and street pollution in Newark.
Following a long period of diminishing gun violence in New Jersey’s urban areas, researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology are now applying engineering methods to the data, as they evaluate the effectiveness of red flags laws that can temporarily prevent dangerous people from possessing weapons.
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.
Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark.
A new student persistence effort at NJIT caters to first- and second-year undergraduates from the City of Newark and provides them with mentoring, networking and scholarly skills.
The Newark Future STEM Leaders program, sponsored by The Prudential Foundation, saw about half of eligible students opt-in for the fall 2025 semester.
One of them is Cindy Senat, a sophomore information systems major out of Newark’s Weequahic High School. The program taught her to advocate for herself and to not fear group participation or speaking up.
More than 40,000 students attend classes in Newark, some in schools built before 1920. Repairing and maintaining those structures are massive undertakings. A project led by NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge to create digital twins of every building managed by the Newark Board of Education (BOE) is providing school administrators with the data needed to make more strategic decisions about the highest priority capital renovations.
For NJIT undergrad and men’s swim team captain Zachary Kuzak ’26, the clock starts at 5:30 a.m. each day at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center pool, always with one mantra: “pressure is a privilege.”
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the launch of an innovative fan sentiment and analysis platform that will capture and evaluate real-time reactions from fans throughout the year leading up to the FIFA World Cup 2026™. Built to support regional stakeholders with actionable insights, the platform reinforces NJIT's role as a leader in data-driven innovation. The platform will provide insights into how fans experience the world’s biggest sporting event, measuring the impact of the tournament across the region.
A green space is growing on the roof of the Campus Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
It’s a community garden with five plots, each tended by students, staffers or professors with ample light and water. The output will be vegetables and herbs, with a portion donated to NJIT’s food pantry. The project has a broader purpose as well.
