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The NJIT group at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms.
Dorman Scholars, computer science majors and hackathon winners Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan

NJIT Students Come in 1st With Election-Inspired Hackathon Project

Friday, October 4, 2019
It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win.

NJIT Student Launching New Mobile Payment App for Small Businesses

Friday, October 4, 2019
Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay. 

NJIT Hosts Tech Giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus.

NJIT Planned Its First Computer Lab 65 Years Ago, Used for Dissertations

Monday, September 30, 2019
There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960.
Prof. Eric Nersesian discussing the mixed-reality laboratory

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Get Real-World Use At NJIT MIXR Lab

Monday, September 23, 2019
An augmented and virtual reality educational game developed by the NJIT MIXR Laboratory, which is a dual project of the Ying Wu College of Computing and Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is being showcased at an important conference in...
Prof. Cody Buntain studies the impact of social media on elections. He's testing a theory about the inevitability of users finding conspiracy theories if they exclusively follow single points of view long enough.

Put Away Your Smartphone to Understand Tech's Impact on Elections

Thursday, September 19, 2019
Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone."
NJIT Career Fair

Getting the Job: NJIT Students Share Their Career Fair Know-how

Monday, September 16, 2019
According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source.
Social media moderation diagram

NJIT Experts Lead $1.5M NSF Grant to Study Social Media Moderation

Friday, September 13, 2019
NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation.

NJIT@JerseyCity Launches with Data Science Graduate Programs

Thursday, September 12, 2019
NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019.