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MakeNJIT, in Second Year, Focuses on Infrastructure Hardware Hacks

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
An all-freshman team, Rackify, was the top NJIT winner and third overall at this year’s MakeNJIT hardware hackathon, creating a smart bicycle rack that automatically locks your ride by activating an RFID reader and extending an arm through the spokes or frame. Rackify members Raghav Bharath, Prabhav...

NJIT Computer Science and Engineering Experts Talk About 'Smart' Cities

Monday, April 22nd, 2024
Accomplished computer science and engineering professors at New Jersey Institute of Technology were among the featured speakers at a conference about creating “smart” cities that was organized by two centers of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management: the Leir Research Institute and Hub for Creat...

NJIT Researcher: Neural Networks Can Mediate Between Download Size and Quality

Friday, April 19th, 2024
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth has been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski. Chakareski and his team, collaborating with peers from University o...

NJIT's Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates Future Visionary Leaders

Friday, April 19th, 2024
NJIT’s annual celebration of its top student researchers kicked off at the 2024 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, which once again highlighted a stunning array of innovation and discovery from every corner of the STEM disciplines. Now in its 19th year, the showcase competition featured 68 diverse...

Scholarship Winners and Donors Come Together in Special Celebration

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
The 35th annual Scholarship Brunch took place April 12, bringing together generous benefactors who have created scholarships at NJIT with the students benefiting from their support. The event humanizes and demonstrates the impact of giving back and removing a financial burden to those who need it mo...

Navya Martin Kollapally Wins AMIA Reviewer Award

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Navya Martin Kollapally M.S. ’21 (Computer Science), and a 2024 Ph.D. candidate, has been honored with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Reviewer Award for her work in support of the 2024 AMIA Informatics Summit, held in Boston this past March. The award is given to peer reviewers ...

JerseyCTF 2024 IV Earns Its Place Among the Competition

Monday, April 8th, 2024
The fourth edition of the annual Jersey Capture the Flag competition has become a brand standard among the global millions who depend on the dashboard CTFTime to remain informed and participate in the highly popular information security competitions. This year’s event drew many repeat visitors to th...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Inno...

Senior Spotlight: Ruby Kapoor and Jason Zheng

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Like many NJIT students, senior computer science majors Ruby Kapoor and Jason Zheng have made the most of their undergraduate experience. They were the recipients of an NSF mini-grant to further explore creating successful entrepreneurship startups. The $3,000 award brought them to the Professional ...

Ph.D. Candidate's AR Project May Transform Physical Science Learning

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Can learning your periodic tables in chemistry class actually be fun? Kantida Nanon, a Ph.D. candidate, thinks her augmented reality (AR) solution may provide the eureka moment that every science teacher seeking to better engage students has sought for decades. Her project titled “Enhancing Chemistr...