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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.

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.

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.

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.

This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart.

The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses with the goal of making computer science education more equitable, inclusive and effective. 

A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Israel, UAE, Israel, the U.S. and Canada.