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WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024

Monday, August 31st, 2020
Virtual University Convocation Program  WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WH...

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

Thursday, August 27th, 2020
As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques de...

Design It, Build It, Ship It: Solutions For Global Health Care Needs

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
The M2CU, a mobile medical care unit designed from a shipping container, is standalone, fast to build and easy to deploy throughout the existing global shipping container infrastructure.  The collaboration between NJIT, The Tuchman Foundation, and University Hospital in Newark produced what ma...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in ...

Graduate from NJIT@JerseyCity First Cohort Shares His Experience

Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Voluminous amounts of data can be overwhelming to even the most experienced professional. That was the experience of Roberto Rivera, a senior research analyst with NJ TRANSIT. Spending his days immersed in large data sets, Roberto realized that continuing his education would provide him with additio...

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of el...

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

Thursday, August 6th, 2020
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure ...

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
In a robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an...

NJIT@JerseyCity Expands with New Graduate Programs in Computing

Friday, July 17th, 2020
Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location. Programs at the Exchange Place location opened in fall 2019 offering a Master of Science in Data Science along with graduate certificates in b...

"Knock Codes" For Smartphone Security Are Easily Predicted, Researchers Say

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Smartphone owners who unlock their devices with knock codes aren't as safe as they think, according to researchers from NJIT, the George Washington University (GW) and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Knock codes work by letting people select patterns to tap on a phone’s locked screen. LG popular...