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Virtual reality can help prepare cancer patients for urgent situations

NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient Emergencies

Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers.

GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'

Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where...
Kozlik double-majors in computer science and applied mathematics

Jonathan Kozlik, NJIT Student Entrepreneur, Makes the Most of Scholarship

Thursday, October 2, 2025
Scholarships help many students get to college, but for Jonathan Kozlik a scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of...

NJIT Ranked #1 Public University in NJ for Value, Salary in WSJ's '2026 Best Colleges'

Wednesday, October 1, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/Statista “2026 Best Colleges” rankings.

NJIT Rises to No. 80 in U.S. News National University Rankings

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has climbed to No. 80 — its highest-ever placement — in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best National Universities rankings, continuing its steady ascent among the nation’s leading institutions.

Ying Wu College of Computing is Honored to Announce Six New Faculty for 2025-2026

Monday, September 22, 2025
Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) proudly welcomes six recently appointed assistant professors to the departments of Computer Science and Data Science for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Two YWCC Students Win Top Honors in Bank of America Codeathon

Thursday, September 18, 2025
Vibha Venkataraman ’26 (Data Science) and Tina Thai ’26 (Computer Science), two students in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars, will have added their respective first and second place wins...

Is Computer Science Education Still Worth It? Let History Be Your Guide

Friday, August 29, 2025
Computer Science education has gone through boom-and-bust cycles before.
The conference was held at NJIT for the first time.

ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students

Tuesday, July 22, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference — Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing and Technology — organized in part by NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing...

David Bader Selected Among '35 Legends in the Class of 2025' by HPCwire

Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Distinguished Professor David Bader in the Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Data Science has been recognized among an elite roster of High-Performance Computing (HPC) pioneers in the ...