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Last summer 35 11th-graders from four Newark high schools — Central, Malcolm X Shabazz, Science Park and Technology — participated in a seven-week enrichment program as part of the inaugural Math Success Initiative (MSI), an academic partnership between NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education (NBOE).

Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location.

NEWARK, NJ – With the health and safety of its member institutions’ communities, the importance of successful institutional campus reopenings and the overall well‐being of its student‐athletes as its top priorities, the America East Conference Board of Presidents announced today a postponement, not cancellation, of all America East fall sport athletics competition and championships for the duration of the first semester.

When Mike Amegashie ’09, owner of Clyver Interview Prep, was invited to attend InnovateNJ’s inaugural “happy hour” for New Jersey entrepreneurs, he jumped at the opportunity to participate.

In response to the extreme challenges to clinical capacity posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, three New Jersey institutions – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation – are collaborating in a unique partnership on the development of modular, mobile medical care facilities to be deployed to areas of surging disease outbreaks and other disasters, as well as to regions that lack health care infrastructure.

By: Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor of History Every year, with the dry season, come the researchers. They arrive with audio recorders, microscopes and glucose meters. They bring backpacks filled with GPS recorders, cameras and field notebooks. They ask endless streams of questions about how to live in the Cerrado of Central Brazil. The Xavante community members who receive and host us are long accustomed to these visits.

Smartphone owners who unlock their devices with knock codes aren't as safe as they think, according to researchers from NJIT, the George Washington University (GW) and Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Knock codes work by letting people select patterns to tap on a phone’s locked screen. LG popularized the method in 2014, and now there are approximately 700,000 people using this method in the U.S. alone, along with one million downloads worldwide of clone applications for Google Android devices generally, the researchers said.

Although quiet this year due to the pandemic, summer has traditionally been a busy time at NJIT. In this first of a six-part series, we look back at some of the many happenings over the past three summers that bolstered and brightened the university. Click on the headlines below. NJII Opens Agile Strategy Lab in Renovated Central King Building

Everyone in the NJIT community is invited to discuss racism and social injustice, as part of virtual forums on July 8 and July 17. The first event is organized by university administration while the second is student-led. Both cited inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement and nationwide protests about Black men and women being killed by police and even targeted by private citizens, after committing only minor crimes if any at all.

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.