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We've all wished that some people on social media would use a fake news detector before sharing, and now an NJIT computer science student has built one that works pretty well. Natalia Smith, a junior from Newark, said her fake news detector application has performed with up to 90 percent accuracy in evaluating COVID-related tweets for truthfulness.

The NJIT women's basketball team took time from its summer workout schedule to give back to the community teaming up with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) in Hillside, NJ. Members of the women's basketball team and coaching staff offered their assistance inside the CFBNJ warehouse preparing meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for those in need.

A cadre of NJIT police officers led hundreds of Navy SEALs, fellow veterans and military supporters in the pre-swim run from Liberty State Park Sept. 11 Monument to the Hudson. The attendees then swam across the Hudson and ran to their final stop at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan as part of the charitable event.

On August 3, 2022, the NJIT Police Department signed on to the 30x30 Pledge – a series of low- and no-cost actions policing agencies can take to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement. The activities help policing agencies assess the current state of a department with regard to gender equity, identify factors that may be driving any disparities and develop and implement strategies and solutions to eliminate barriers and advance women in policing.

Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability.

A rapid point-of-care device with a unique electrode structure designed to identify toxin molecules in human fluids was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium.

The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision therapy company that launched in 2018.

The NJIT men's basketball team took off from its summer workout schedule and made a short trek within the Brick City to help two different entities provide service to those in need.

New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval with in-person and remote participants focusing on critical, societal and technical presentations in the art of searching for vivid data online.

NJIT's electrical and computer engineering department hosted 65 girls representing 40 high schools in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania last week, teaching the students about opportunities in technical fields where females are historically overlooked.