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Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. 

The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club has proven once again that they are formidable competitors to some of the best schools in the Mid-Atlantic region at the 2025 ICPC North America Greater New York Regional Contest held at Columbia University, with one team scoring in the top 20 among the likes of Princeton, Cornell and Columbia. 

Pritam Sen earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at NJIT in May 2025, and has achieved what in horse racing is called the triple crown.

The increasing need to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) pervades every aspect of daily life and has created new opportunities for students across all levels to learn about what is becoming fundamental to transforming the modern business infrastructure.

Art is rooted in thought and emotion. The greatest music and drama allow viewers and performers alike to feel joy, anger or sadness as a shared communicative experience. But how does someone with no voice “sing” in an opera?

Rougly half of patients do not take psychotropic drugs as prescribed, especially those in underserved communities, according to A:Care. To address this, a team of eight Ying Wu College of Computing undergraduate students created "Sidekick," a mental-health side-effect tracker that earned third place at the 2025 Pfizer Digital Hackathon.

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.

New Jersey Institute of Technology's newly-announced Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Enterprise AI will be available to students beginning in fall 2026, with the intention of developing next-level professionals that extends beyond a traditional technical degree.

In a new article featured in Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), NJIT Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis explores how cyberpsychology — the study of the two-way relationship between people and technology — is reshaping modern computing.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the second annual Nexus of Excellence Awards Oct. 8 in the Campus Center Atrium, celebrating the university’s faculty and staff whose achievements exemplify NJIT’s mission and values.

Building on last year’s inaugural ceremony, the 2025 event recognized honorees across categories that reflect NJIT’s Innovation Nexus 2030 Strategic Plan — spanning excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, research, diversity and community engagement.