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NSF Continues Funding NJIT's Future Defenders of Government Computing

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
NJIT this month won its second grant from the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, in which students studying toward master's degrees receive up to three years of free tuition and generous stipends, in exchange for working at government cybersecurity jobs af...

NJIT is an International 'Best Maker School' in Inaugural List by Make: and Newsweek

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is in rarified air as it has been recognized as one of 200 colleges and universities named a Best Maker School in Higher Education by Make: magazine and Newsweek. Across the university, NJIT houses facilities that encourage engineers, architects, designers, and sc...

Alumna Afrida Kabir to Study Advanced Energy Solutions at Aalto University

Monday, August 23rd, 2021
Society consumes too much energy. Industry takes an especially large slice of the energy pie, and Afrida Kabir, a process engineer and 2016 NJIT chemical engineering graduate, is heading to Finland to study technologies that would curb industry’s energy appetite. Kabir recently joined the Advanced ...

Remembering NJIT's Bruno Gonçalves da Silva, a Rising Leader in Geotechnical Engineering

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
The NJIT community is mourning the loss this month of Bruno Gonçalves da Silva, an esteemed assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering who launched a new field of study for the university, energy geotechnology, which includes novel experimental investigations into the hydraulic fract...

NJIT Expert Trains Robots to Use Their Hands, Earns NSF CAREER Grant

Thursday, August 12th, 2021
C-3PO walked upright and spoke six million languages, but never did much with his hands beside gesticulate on the odds of surviving space battles.Such is the state of modern robotics and cyberintelligence, where a Boston Dynamics droid does backflips and Apple Siri maintains natural-language convers...

NJIT Launches a Campus Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit socie...

New Diagnosis Tools Will Help Protect Data in Event-Based Applications

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Software behaving badly, especially when it corrupts, exposes or loses someone's data, is the motivation for new research from NJIT Prof. Iulian Neamtiu on how event-based applications go astray and what can be done to fix them. Such applications are often found in smartphones, websites and Interne...

Amazon Buys Wickr, A Secure Messaging App Founded by NJIT Alumni, Faculty

Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early ...

From Congo to Columbia, Engineering Grad Perseveres for Her PhD

Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
Daniela Bushiri, NJIT Class of 2021, has not been in the U.S. for long – about five years. In that time, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in chemical engineering, a minor in Applied Mathematics, and is now taking her talents to Columbia University in the fall where she will research alterna...

Graduate Certificates Enable Easy Transition into Computing M.S. Programs

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
With computing playing an ever-increasing role in how companies operate, and the high demand for skilled computing professionals, people with no previous college or work experience in computing are applying to Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) to pursue graduate degree in one of the college’s M.S....
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