NJIT’s online MBA program continues to earn national accolades. After being recognized as one of the Best Online MBA Programs by U.S. News and World Report, NJIT’s online MBA in management information systems has been ranked No. 1 by Master’s Programs Guide.

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.

An open-source tool that cryptographically protects the layout of your software code supply chain is now available from researchers at NJIT, New York University and Purdue University, bolstering the type of weakness exploited in the recent cyberattack on the commercial SolarWinds monitoring application used by the U.S. government.

A room in the university library is being rebuilt as the Leir Business Data Observatory, providing a dedicated high-tech space for graduate students and faculty from Martin Tuchman School of Management to collaboratively study data science as it pertains to business and finance.

Research conducted 20 years ago by a former NJIT dean is being put to new use in the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. Barry Cohen, who was an associate dean of Ying Wu College of Computing, worked on the algorithm for bioengineering stable messenger RNA (mRNA), a key ingredient of the vaccine recently approved for emergency use by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration.

Architects consider cost, design aesthetics, materials, uses and a host of other factors when planning new spaces, but now the COVID-19 pandemic is making occupant health another factor to consider.

It is a long-standing practice within architecture studios to assign real-world projects to students as they develop the skills to build for the future. In a studio taught by Associate Professor Darius Sollohub, the reimagining of the Mueller Florist Supplies site continues this practice.

Two pioneering researchers, Rajesh Davé, a distinguished professor of chemical and materials engineering, and MengChu Zhou, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, were recently elected fellows of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Davé and Zhou join 173 other academic innovators, together representing 115 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes, in this year’s class of fellows. Collectively, the group holds more than 4,700 issued U.S. patents. Davé has 15 U.S. patents and Zhou has 14.

Freshman Lyzi Litwinko was selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week for the second straight week the league office announced on Monday. The 5-foot-8 guard from Berlin, CT, averaged 9.5ppg and 5.5rpg in a pair of games for the Highlanders last week. Litwinko shot 42 percent on the week and matched her career-high with 11 points on Saturday against Fairleigh Dickinson.

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