Richard Calbi, director of Ridgewood Water, was astonished to discover the extent of PFAS contamination in New Jersey drinking water when the state adopted pollution standards for the industrial chemicals in 2020. 

“The first thing we did was determine if we were affected and found them in every one of our 52 groundwater wells. We couldn’t find water to buy that didn’t have PFAS in it. We had to reimagine and rebuild our entire system to accommodate new filters,” Calbi said. 

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.

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.

While ordinary people around the world are waking up to large language models on the cloud, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology want you to know about the power of small models on your own hardware.

It’s not unlike fifty years ago, when people were becoming aware of business computers the size and cost of a car, unaware of the imminent personal computing revolution.