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Priscilla Maryanski, a first-year computer science major from Jersey City, was always told that learning by doing was the only way to succeed at college — but at NJIT she discovered a different approach of learning by doing good deeds.

Since April 2020, Maryanski has been a volunteer at Erevna, a multinational, student-led organization founded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that focuses on community service.

Nearly 100 employers and more than 1,000 students are expected to participate in this month’s NJIT career fair, which remains online via the Handshake networking platform.

Among the employers offering internships, co-operative educational opportunities and jobs at the Feb. 19 fair are Bristol Myers Squibb; General Dynamics, Gladstone Design; Johnson & Johnson; Tata Consultancy Services; Colgate-Palmolive; the Metropolitan Transit Authority; Mott MacDonald; the Naval Air Systems Command; Perkins Eastman; the New York State Department of Transportation and Bowman Consulting.

Students who study computing teamed with those in digital design from Jan. 29-31 at Global Game Jam, a hackathon for video game development, which was virtual this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

About three dozen entrants spanning five teams completed the challenge to finish a game in 48 hours, with some teams also including alumni and students from other universities, said Julian Quinn, the lead event organizer, who is a junior information technology major in Ying Wu College of Computing.

Artificial intelligence software used in everything from cancer research to vehicle navigation sometimes relies on unreliable data-sorting algorithms that can lead to serious real-world problems, but an NJIT expert is working on new ways to identify the causes and find possible solutions.

When companies want to address important challenges and opportunities that would benefit from computing expertise, they look to the Industrial Affiliate Program (IAP) at the NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC).

NJIT's student ACM chapter is known for its tutoring center, which is moving online this semester in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, matching the new way that university instruction is provided.

The program, designed in conjunction with Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), , matches student volunteers with those who need assistance via WebEx sessions.

Four of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities.

While studying online became an important academic offering in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or hybrid, online degree programs as part of the university’s vision of a global campus.

Vrushti Dalal, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Sayreville, won the new University Innovation Challenge, a pitch-style competition sponsored by the Guardian Life Insurance Company.

For young entrepreneurs, pitch competitions are a popular way to present concepts, hone essential business skills and make industry connections, which can help transform their creativity and talent into viable, real-world business ventures.

People who have low vision — those who have difficulty seeing even when wearing corrective lens, according to American Foundation for the Blind — may soon be able to learn basic skills such as crossing the street or learning their way around by simulating the experience through a new application of virtual reality, which is being designed by NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski and his students.

NJIT @JerseyCity celebrated the graduation of its first group of master’s students, with four students earning their Master of Science in Data Science at the end of the fall semester this week. While a typical part-time M.S. program takes five semesters to complete, including a full summer semester, these students raced ahead to complete the program in just four semesters.