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A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering techno...

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which was hosted Oct. 10-11 by NJIT's Women in Computing Society, had almost 80 entrants spanning 28 projects from colleges and even high schools...

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Friday, October 16th, 2020
Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architec...

Honors Students Learn to Merge Information Tech and Social Consciousness

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success. The course, I...

Institute for Data Science Unveils 2020-2021 Talks, Many to Discuss COVID-19

Monday, October 12th, 2020
About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey . David Bader, director of NJIT's Institute for Data Science, said he is excite...

College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty in AI, Databases, Networking

Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students....

Wohn Awarded for Mentoring Women and Minorities in Computing

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020
In a lab dedicated to developing novel technologies for positive social interaction and trying to understand how people use social technologies, such as social media, mobile phones, and multiplayer games, it is the face-to-face, in-person relationships that students have with each other, faculty, an...

ACM Chapter Plans Virtual HackNJIT Event, New Special-Interest Groups

Friday, September 18th, 2020
NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery dates back to the 1970s but they've had no semester quite like fall 2020 with all events being virtual. Their annual HackNJIT event (November 7-8), along with the NJIT Women in Computing Society's GirlHacks (October 10...

NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More ...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate ...