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

Thursday, September 19th, 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." Buntain joined NJIT this year to teach computer ethics and to research...

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

Monday, September 16th, 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. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle...

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

Friday, September 13th, 2019
NJIT researchers received an $849,024 National Science Foundation grant to help invent ways of taming the wilderness that is online content moderation. Anyone who interacts in online communities knows the pain, whether you commented on an article, calmed down friends arguing with each other on your ...

NJIT@JerseyCity Launches with Data Science Graduate Programs

Thursday, September 12th, 2019
NJIT @JerseyCity welcomed its first students on September 3, 2019. With the start of the fall semester, dozens of students embarked on graduate-level academic programs in data science at NJIT’s new location, just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the Waterfront district of Jersey City. N...

Already Distinguished, Twin Sisters Are Ready for Further Success at NJIT

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Samara and Samantha Augustin — freshmen at Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering, respectively — are among the first recipients of the fu...

NJIT Ranks in Top 2% Nationwide in College Salary Report by Payscale

Friday, August 30th, 2019
Payscale has released its 2019 College Salary Report and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has placed #53 out of over 4,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. in the mid-career salary rankings. In addition, NJIT is #1 for state schools in mid-career salary. “NJIT students are in high...

Inspiring Students From NJIT to Africa

Friday, August 30th, 2019
Finding Keith Williams in a classroom isn’t unusual. He’s taught at NJIT for years, but this summer he taught somewhere quite different. Williams traveled more than 7,400 miles to teach at ZCAS University in Zambia, invited by the Zambian government to teach a course on mobile technology and set up ...

NJIT Professor Awarded Prestigious DARPA Fellowship

Wednesday, August 28th, 2019
Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The $500,000 grant that comes with the Fellowship will be used to continue to advance deploy...

The Makerspace at NJIT Wins $125,000 in a U.S. Small Business Administration Competition

Friday, August 23rd, 2019
The Makerspace at NJIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s training-focused, rapid prototyping facility, is the winner of a $125,000 award from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to advance careers in advanced manufacturing. NJIT is one of 12 winners of the SBA’s MaTCH Pilot Competition,...

Program started by NJIT Professor Spreading Entrepreneurial Spirit Around the World

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Three times a year, NJIT’s Osama Eljabiri makes the trip to Medellin, Colombia, as part of his Real World Connections (RWC) program. RWC mirrors a program he started more than a decade ago in New Jersey for middle school and high school students, designed to help them innovate, create and gain real...