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From Code to Cloud: A New Book by Maura and Fadi Deek Finishes What an Inspiration Started

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Maura and Fadi Deek in the Ying Wu College of Computing share a rich history as spouses and collaborators. Their new book, “From Code to Cloud: Developing Web Applications”, finishes what their colleague James McHugh began together with the two of them prior to his passing in 2022. McHugh was a prof...

No. 1 in Class to National Security Impact: An Alum’s Journey in Cybersecurity as a Call to Service

Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Sam Itman ’22, M.S. ’23 came to NJIT with a passion for solving complex, real-world problems that would have a tangible impact on a national scale, prioritizing mission value over private-sector compensation. His recent promotion as an innovation and AI specialist for the United States Department of...

NJIT Named Among Princeton Review’s Best 392 Colleges for 2027

Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is again among the nation’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, earning inclusion in “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” The distinction places NJIT among approximately 14% of the nation’s nearly 2,800 four-year ...

New AI Model Detects Hidden Signs of Solar Eruptions Hours Before They Emerge

Friday, August 14th, 2026
Long before dark sunspots appear on the Sun's surface, a new active region — where powerful solar eruptions can originate — begins showing subtle signs of its formation.   Now, researchers say a new artificial intelligence model can detect those early signals and forecast the emergence of solar...

Innovation, Invention and Impact: NJIT Undergrads Present Summer Research

Thursday, August 13th, 2026
NJIT undergraduate researchers had just three minutes each to explain 10 weeks of work. In rapid succession, students took the stage in the Campus Center Ballroom to describe projects spanning bioscience, bioengineering, materials, sustainability, artificial intelligence, robotics and data science. ...

NJIT Hosts National Conversation on AI and the Future of First-Year Engineering

Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Engineering educators and students from institutions across the country gathered at New Jersey Institute of Technology for the 2026 First-Year Engineering Experience Conference, examining how universities can prepare beginning engineers for a profession — and an educational environment — being resha...

NJIT Appoints Moshe Kam Interim Provost

Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced the appointment of Moshe Kam, Dean of NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as the university’s Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, effectiv...

New Book by NJIT’s Julie Ancis Examines the Psychology of Antisemitism

Monday, August 3rd, 2026
A new book by NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis examines the psychological forces that sustain antisemitism, its effects on individuals and communities and evidence-informed approaches for confronting it. Published by Wiley, “Antisemitism and Jew Hatred: Psychological Perspectives” brings tog...

Distinguished Professor David Bader Has Graph Analytics Benchmark Selected for SPEC CPU 2026

Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
854.graph500, a graph analytics benchmark developed by David Bader, distinguished professor and associate dean for research in the Ying Wu College of Computing and founding director of the Institute for Data Science at NJIT, has been selected for inclusion in SPEC CPU 2026, the newest generation of ...

Comp-Sci Student Wins Best Paper Award at Security and Privacy Conference

Monday, July 27th, 2026
A vulnerability in Google’s Android mobile operating system allows attackers to confirm you are their desired target before unleashing malicious code that they know would only work for a short time, new research authored by a New Jersey Institute of Technology student found. Robert Blacha was lead a...