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Rooted in Research, Ready to Lead: NJIT's Master's and Doctoral Degree Class of 2025

Monday, May 19th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Bloom Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies. The 2025 master’s and doctoral class exemplifies the institution’s commitment to research and scholars...

NJIT Students Shine at Bank of America Code-a-Thon with Innovative Peer Exchange Platform

Monday, May 5th, 2025
At the 2nd Annual Bank of America Code-a-Thon, NJIT students made an impression that resonated beyond the competition floor. Four standout students — Joshua Hernandez (Computer Science), Janina Guarquila (Financial Technology), Luis Duarte (Computer Science) and Layla Rosario (Information Technolog...

Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
Git, the most common protocol for computer programmers to keep track of their code, is becoming more secure because of software jointly developed by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York University. Git underpins services such as GitHub, which alone has more than 100 millio...

An Alarm Clock that Hides From You is Highlight of MakeNJIT Competition

Monday, April 28th, 2025
A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon. The clockmakers earned third place overall among 47 teams from several universities. Members of Tea...

JerseyCTF 2025 Was (A Lot) More Than Fun and Games

Monday, April 21st, 2025
The NJIT JerseyCTF competition is now in its fifth year and has continued to draw competitors on-campus and around the world in a quest to hack their way through a series of information security style puzzles to “capture the flag” and win an impressive array of prizes — along with bragging rights as...

Data Science Major Danielle Grunwald Will Become an Axtria Analyst

Monday, April 21st, 2025
Graduating NJIT senior Danielle Grunwald and her employer as of this summer, Axtria Inc., are made for each other — Grunwald loves digging into life sciences data to extract useful insights, and that’s the gist of what Axtria does. Grunwald is wrapping up her studies with a B.S. in data science fro...

3 NJIT Colleges Are Among US News 'Best Graduate Schools'

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
The latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report highlight the national standing of New Jersey Institute of Technology in the fields of engineering, computer science and now business. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) ranks No. 85 on the publication’s list of the Best...

Experience Day 2025: Accepted YWCC Students See the Fun Side of Computing

Friday, April 4th, 2025
All hard work and no play makes “techies” anxious for more. 244 recently accepted high school seniors and their parents need not worry. Although the Ying Wu College of Computing’s (YWCC) programs are rigorous (that is the reason why they are the most significant generator of tech talent in the NY me...

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wei, who joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing in 2008 and now holds the role of distinguished professor, also became an IEEE Fellow in 2024. “Being elect...

Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive Hackathons

Friday, March 28th, 2025
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally. Sponsored by tech giants like NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, TreeHacks received more than 12,000...