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NJIT Goes Abroad With FinTech Program for Graduate Students

Friday, December 7th, 2018
Financial technology (FinTech) is a rapidly growing subsector of the financial services industry that applies software tools, networking, user experience, interface platforms, and modern modeling and analytical techniques to improve efficiency and deployment of traditional financial services. To ed...

Computer Science Professor's Startup Attracts Millions in Investment From Industry Leaders

Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
A startup company co-founded by a NJIT Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) professor recently received a substantial investment from a startup foundry supported by industry giants including Microsoft and AT&T. Duality Technologies, launched in 2016 by Associate Professor Kurt Rohloff and f...

Healthcare Software Startup Establishes Newark Headquarters

Tuesday, December 4th, 2018
A new startup company focused on software and professional services to improve community health outcomes just selected Newark as its headquarters. SRL Group, LLC, founded by two veterans of healthcare marketing, joined New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Enterprise Development Center (EDC) ...

Highlanders are the 2018 ECAC Winter Champions

Monday, December 3rd, 2018
NJIT posted 1635 points to win by a whopping 329 points over the 10-team field and second-place Monmouth University (1306). In addition, NJIT's first-year head swimming and diving coach, Ron Farina, was named "Coach of the Meet." The Top-5 was rounded out by Fairfield University...

NJIT Hangs On at Drexel for Another Impressive Road Win

Friday, November 30th, 2018
Senior Abdul Lewis posted team-highs in points (17) and rebounds (10) as NJIT held off Drexel University, 70-67, on Wednesday at the Daskalakis Athletic Center. The Highlanders have now started 4-0 on the road for the first time in 30 years -- since a 7-0 road mark to open 1988-89. In a g...

NJIT's Game Development Program Preps Students for Careers in Diverse Fields

Friday, November 30th, 2018
Housed within the School of Art + Design and Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), NJIT’s game development program blends digital design and information technology curriculums to offer students access to faculty and resources that cross disciplinary boundaries and cultivate innova...

MTSM Assistant Professor Honored With Award for Paper

Friday, November 30th, 2018
Ming Fang Taylor, Martin Tuchman School of Management assistant professor of accounting, received the Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award for her paper, “External Social Networks and Earnings Management,” at the 30th Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues, held in November in San ...

NJIT Advances Research, Commerce and Security Through Global Partnerships

Thursday, November 29th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reached out to giants in the field of cryptography nearly 7,000 miles away to advance blockchain, an evolving digital security technology designed to enable enterprises both large and small to expand transactions across borders, supply chains and diverse...

NJIT Launches A Potent Research Hub: The Institute for Space Weather Sciences

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather. As the complexity of engineered systems increases, as new technologies are inv...

Researchers Shine New Light on Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes

Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
When the West Nile virus (WNV) was initially isolated in two patients at a Queens, N.Y., hospital in the summer of 1999, it would have been hard to anticipate how quickly one common species of house mosquito, Culex pipiens, would help begin to spread the virus throughout the western hemisphere. Bit...