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NJIT Senior Finds Hispanic Role Models in Software Internships

Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
From NJIT to Apple to Google and back, senior computer science and mathematics major Ricky Palaguachi always expands his peer network around those who share Hispanic heritage. On campus, he's the webmaster for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), which welcomes students from any m...

Liftoff: NJIT Grads Enter Facebook, Merck, Air Force, Brown University

Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
Facebook, Merck, Brown University, the University of Minnesota, Venture for America and the U.S. Air Force are among the destinations of standouts from the Class of 2021 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at seven graduates.  Roberto Adamson: Eidgenössische Techni...

NSF Continues Funding NJIT's Future Defenders of Government Computing

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
NJIT this month won its second grant from the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, in which students studying toward master's degrees receive up to three years of free tuition and generous stipends, in exchange for working at government cybersecurity jobs af...

NJIT Launches a Campus Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit socie...

New Diagnosis Tools Will Help Protect Data in Event-Based Applications

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Software behaving badly, especially when it corrupts, exposes or loses someone's data, is the motivation for new research from NJIT Prof. Iulian Neamtiu on how event-based applications go astray and what can be done to fix them. Such applications are often found in smartphones, websites and Interne...

Avaap Founder Dhiraj Shah Joins NJIT's Board of Trustees

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
Dhiraj Shah, a transformational business leader, high growth investor and passionate entrepreneur who founded global IT services company Avaap, has joined NJIT’s Board of Trustees. Shah is executive chairman of Avaap, a technology and management consultancy that provides software services to h...

Amazon Buys Wickr, A Secure Messaging App Founded by NJIT Alumni, Faculty

Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early ...

NJIT Researchers Evaluate Online Harassment of Marginalized Live-Streamers

Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Developers of live-streaming software could help block online harassment of women and LGBTQ people, based on new research from NJIT's informatics department where students and faculty studied the common types of harassment and interviewed 25 streamers to understand coping strategies. The most commo...

Graduate Certificates Enable Easy Transition into Computing M.S. Programs

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
With computing playing an ever-increasing role in how companies operate, and the high demand for skilled computing professionals, people with no previous college or work experience in computing are applying to Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) to pursue graduate degree in one of the college’s M.S....

NJIT@JerseyCity Adds Two M.S. Degrees for Business Information Systems

Friday, June 18th, 2021
Ying Wu College of Computing at its NJIT @JerseyCity location will offer new master's degrees in information systems and business information systems this fall, to meet demand from local technology professionals for graduate-level education. The new degrees will bring the number of master’s program...
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