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NJIT Student Earns Top Prize in Statewide Business Pitch Competition

Thursday, April 29th, 2021
A computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned the top prize in a statewide collegiate competition that judges pitches for innovative business ideas. The student, Yashwee Kothari ’22, pitched a mobile application for tracking the symptoms of people recovering from traumati...

Researchers Creating Drones with Artificial Intelligence to Help Firefighters

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property. Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while human...

NJIT Student-Research Back in the Spotlight at 2021 Dana Knox Showcase

Sunday, April 25th, 2021
After a year layoff, one of NJIT’s standout annual research events returned to the campus community this month — more than 30 of the university’s top student-researchers took to their webcams to present their work for a virtual audience at the 2021 Dana Knox Research Showcase, "A Glimpse Into the Fu...

NJIT Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability Impacts Ranked Globally

Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned global recognition from the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking for the university’s pursuit of and progress toward targets set forth by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), earning No. 90 globally and No. 2 nationally in two...

NJIT is a Top 50 Best Value College According to The Princeton Review

Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review, an honor held since 2018. NJIT ranked No. 39 as a Best Value College and No. 10 for Best Career Pla...

For NJIT's Sam Carlos, Two Majors Weren't Enough, So He Made it Three

Friday, April 16th, 2021
New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree...

Student's Web Design Startup Helps Local Businesses in Pandemic

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite pause to how local bricks-and-mortar businesses serve their communities, an NJIT student and his friends stepped in to help small companies take the concept of shopping local online. Franklin Tan said his website development business, Tartan Technologies,...

Applications to Ying Wu College of Computing Increased 50% Since 2019

Monday, April 12th, 2021
Applications to study at Ying Wu College of Computing increased by 50% in the last two years. The college received 2,979 applicants this year which is also an increase of 19% from 2020. Computer science, human-computer interaction and web/information systems also experienced large increases as indiv...

NJIT Coding Team Advances for First Time, Divisional Round is April 22

Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
A team of NJIT computer science students will compete among some of the nation's best undergraduate coders in the divisional level of the International Collegiate Programming Contest on April 22, where top finishers in the U.S. Eastern division go to the North American championships, en route to the...

Come Join NJIT's 2021 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Noise has an outsized impact on quality of life for urban residents, but it can be hard to monitor and regulate. Cities, which have limited resources to enforce noise codes, often chase transient sources that disappear before inspectors arrive hours or days later. In a talk next Tuesday at NJIT’s 2...