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Women of NJIT Join to Inspire, Encourage and Strengthen One Another

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT a Top 50 School to Study Game Design

Monday, March 18th, 2019
NJIT has again earned a spot on The Princeton Review’s top 50 undergraduate schools for game design coming in at No. 44 in the 2019 rankings. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on data it collected in its 2018 survey of administrators at 150 institutions that offer game design courses, ma...

NJIT's Murray Center for Women in Technology Holds 5th Annual Women Designing the Future Conference

Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold its fifth annual Women Designing the Future conference — “Game Changers! Technological Innovations That Will Transform Our Lives”— Friday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the university’s Campus Cente...

RiskVal Financial Solutions Partners with NJIT Data Scientists to Model the Bond Market

Friday, March 8th, 2019
Researchers at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) have partnered with RiskVal Financial Solutions, a New York City-based global supplier of Software as a Service for pre-trade analysis and risk management. The objective is to use cutting-edge data science techniques to model fluctuations in ...

Career Fair Draws Hundreds of Employers and Thousands of Jobseekers

Friday, March 1st, 2019
It was a cold and windy Wednesday, but the winter weather didn’t stop the more than 2,200 students and alumni in search of internships, co-ops and full-time jobs from packing the Wellness and Events Center Feb. 13. There, 212 employers were recruiting for a range of positions — and doling out swag —...

NJIT Overwatch Esports Team Secures Spot in Collegiate National Championship Tournament

Friday, February 22nd, 2019
College Basketball isn’t the only tournament happening this March. Gamers will have their own March Madness as part of TESPA’s Overwatch Collegiate Championship — and NJIT has made the field. Finishing 11th in TESPA’s regular season rankings with a record of 13-2, the Highlanders have punched their...

NJIT Teams Nab 1st and 2nd Place in Statewide Competition

Monday, February 18th, 2019
The purpose is twofold: “tap into the creative and forward-thinking minds of young people, and at the same time, encourage students to take a more active role in understanding and shaping health care.” Indeed, the second annual Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) Health Car...

NJIT hosts Middle School Cyber Robotics Competition

Friday, February 15th, 2019
Almost 100 middle school students from more than 40 schools across New Jersey recently participated in a cyber robotics coding competition held at NJIT. They were finalists in the New Jersey Cyber Robotics Coding Competition, an exciting online event in which students used a cloud-based simulat...

NJIT Hosts Game Development Marathon for Global Game Jam

Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Nearly 100 budding game designers pulled all-nighters at NJIT for the Eleventh Annual Global Game Jam (GGJ) in what has become a much anticipated event for both design and information technology students. Organized in 2008, GGJ, an international nonprofit corporation based in California, is th...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Match Candidates to Jobs

Friday, January 25th, 2019
Milad Mirghahari came up with his idea the way many entrepreneurs do, by trying to solve a real-world problem he faced daily. The difference in Mirghahari’s case is he was only 15 years old. Mirghahari’s family operated two Subway franchises and in his words — they were failing. The main prob...