“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.
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Yusuf Karyagdi is building a business to upcycle leftover material from his father’s stone fabrication company into high-end artwork — and in turn taking first place, plus a $3,000 check, in the student category at NJIT’s 2025 New Business Model Competition.
About 100 people entered the competition, with the final eight in the student and community categories giving live presentations.
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.
New Jersey Institute of Technology Ph.D. student Günel Nabiyeva has co-authored a new study in the International Journal of Cosmetic Science that demonstrates how engineering tools can accurately predict how sunscreens “feel” on the skin — bridging scientific measurement and human perception.
The collaboration, which began through a National Science Foundation (NSF) INTERN supplement and continued under NJIT’s Experiential Learning Opportunity Program (ELOP), connects academic research with industrial product development at Colgate-Palmolive.
The kinetic sculptures were supposed to spin gently when the girls turned on their hair dryers. But as soon as the first creation twirled into motion — foil shimmering, ribbons fluttering — the whole room lit up. A crowd of elementary-aged girls leaned in, laughing as their sculptures wobbled, spun or rocketed more wildly than expected.
When Jaimee Diogo launched the New Jersey chapter of STEM Like a Girl in October 2024, she wasn’t simply organizing workshops, she was creating the environment she wished she’d had growing up.
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club has proven once again that they are formidable competitors to some of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region at the 2025 ICPC North America Greater New York Regional Contest held at Columbia University, with one team scoring in the top 20 among the likes of Princeton, Cornell and Columbia.
Of the 55 million students in Pakistan, only 11,000 manage to study in the United States each year. Muhammad Musa is one of them.
Now a second-year student majoring in financial technology and a member of NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College, Musa has become one of the most engaged students on campus, thriving across academics, leadership and mentorship.
Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect tracker that earned third place at the 2025 Pfizer Digital Hackathon.
When Saly Tanyous ’26 walks across the stage at NJIT this spring, she won’t just be accepting her degree, she’ll be celebrating a journey marked by resilience, discovery and the courage to find her true path in engineering.
Born in Egypt, Tanyous moved to the United States in sixth grade and settled in Jersey City with her family. The transition was difficult. As a child who excelled in her Egyptian classrooms, she was suddenly navigating a new culture, a new language and the fear of falling short. “I used to cry every day, worried about failing,” she recalled.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been officially recognized as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, joining a growing network of colleges, universities and communities committed to creating healthy, sustainable habitats for pollinators.
