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Constructive Counsel: The Merits of Peer Mentoring

Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Patrycja Ptak, a second-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, vividly recalls the uncertainty she felt and challenges she faced navigating the college pathway — which is why she decided to become a mentor through Strive for College, an online platform that p...

NJIT Online Programs Among the Best, Says U.S. News & World Report

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for “Best Online Programs” are out, and NJIT realized gains in four graduate-study areas: business, information technology (IT), engineering and MBA. The rankings are the result of extensive assessments over the past year of more than 1,600 online degree ...

$1 million NSF Grant Awarded to Develop Open Knowledge Network

Friday, December 20th, 2019
Two New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) professors are part of a consortium of 10 organizations that received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to use technology to assist agencies that manage wildfires, water quality and biodiversity. Ying Wu College of Computing profes...

NJIT Was Early Leader in Giving Microcomputers to New Students in 1980s

Friday, December 20th, 2019
Personal computing evolved from the primordial soup of electronics miniaturization in the 1960s-1970s, and before long the revolution was at full strength in University Heights. Mainframes and servers still handled administrative and research tasks in the 1970s and 1980s, as they do today, although...

NJIT, Ocean County College Expand and Renew Transfer Agreement

Monday, December 16th, 2019
A new two-year agreement between Ocean County College and New Jersey Institute of Technology allows OCC graduates to transfer directly into NJIT colleges. The agreement went into effect on October 4, 2019 and covers NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts; Newark College of Engineering; Martin T...

High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (VR) on learning and knowledge retention.. The event, organized by NJIT professor Lori Watrous-deVersterre, had two goals. First, to...

NJIT Gets Chapter of Google Developer Student Club

Monday, December 9th, 2019
NJIT now has a chapter of the Google Developer Student Club. Google formed the international organization two years ago to teach real-world information technology skills that aren't necessarily taught in college classrooms. It's also a way for the software giant to promote its products and recruit ...

NJIT@JerseyCity Officially Launched with Expectation of Rapid Growth

Friday, December 6th, 2019
NJIT welcomed 35 data science students to its newly opened NJIT@JerseyCity location this semester, with a goal of doubling that number in the spring and reaching 500 students in three years, Ying Wu College of Computing Dean Craig Gotsman said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held December 5 at the ne...

A Q&A with David Bader, Director of NJIT's New Institute for Data Science

Monday, December 2nd, 2019
David Bader, distinguished professor of computer science, is the director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and high-performance computing, with applications in cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics and computational genomics. Dr. Bader ...

NJIT Math Prof. Shang Seeks Proof For Why Machine Learning Works

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Programmers can tell you what machine learning does and how it works, but they can't really prove why it works. Enter the mathematicians. The what and how of machine learning are well documented — it's software that examines big data to find meaning and possibly suggest actions, based on looking fo...