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Federal Stimulus Update

Monday, December 28th, 2020
NJIT Community Members, The President has signed an approximately $900 billion coronavirus stimulus funding package that Congress had approved one week ago. This relief package includes $22.9 billion for higher education. While the official distribution within higher education has not been released ...

Computer Science Student Wins Business Challenge With Health Care App

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Yashwee J. Kothari, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Parsippany, placed first among student competitors at this year’s New Business Model Competition for her innovative work supporting patients living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual competition was host...

NJIT@JerseyCity Celebrates First Graduates of M.S. in Data Science Program

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
NJIT @JerseyCity celebrated the graduation of its first group of master’s students, with four students earning their Master of Science in Data Science at the end of the fall semester this week. While a typical part-time M.S. program takes five semesters to complete, including a full summer semester,...

NJIT Earns Another National Accolade: Best Online MBA in Information Systems

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
NJIT’s online MBA program continues to earn national accolades. After being recognized as one of the Best Online MBA Programs by U.S. News and World Report, NJIT’s online MBA in management information systems has been ranked No. 1 by Master’s Programs Guide. NJIT’s managment information systems MBA...

NJIT Researchers Help Prevent Cyberattacks From Software Supply Chain

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
An open-source tool that cryptographically protects the layout of your software code supply chain is now available from researchers at NJIT, New York University and Purdue University, bolstering the type of weakness exploited in the recent cyberattack on the commercial SolarWinds monitoring applicat...

Business Data Observatory Coming Soon to Van Houten Library

Friday, December 18th, 2020
A room in the university library is being rebuilt as the Leir Business Data Observatory, providing a dedicated high-tech space for graduate students and faculty from Martin Tuchman School of Management to collaboratively study data science as it pertains to business and finance. Data science is typi...

Miguel Rodrigues aka Kaliptus Published in Collaborations - Vol.1 by APEX Collective

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
The book, Collaborations Vol. 1, by APEX Collective, includes works of art, particularly painting collaborations, created from 2014-2020 by various artists that were exhibited in a multitude of art galleries, including the Ryan Joseph Gallery in Denver, Knew Conscious Gallery also in Denver, Alex Gr...

Kum-Biocca Presents Projection Mapping at SIGGRAPH Asia

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
SIGGRAPH ASIA Siggraph Asia Projection Mapping work title AI: Artificial Interruption The artificial, a curtain of cubes, interrupts, and rolls over the natural order. Leaves fall and freeze into polygonal crystals. As the artificial interruption spreads, fields and leaves shatter into ice cubes....

COVID-19 Vaccines Breathe Life into Research Done 20 Years Ago

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Barry Cohen, who was an associate dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, worked on the algorithm for bioengineering stable messenger RNA (mRNA), a key ingredient of the vaccine...

Alumna Masha Drozdov '09 on Responsibility and the Value of Technical Skills

Thursday, December 17th, 2020
Masha Drozdov is a frequent guest critic for the advanced integrated architecture studios at Hillier College and Columbia GSAPP and has also participated as a guest for the Alumni Tea discussions at NJIT with students who are figuring out what their career paths will be. Masha’s admiration for Louis...