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From Regional Champions to Nationals: NJIT Dominates at the 2025 NCAE Cyber Games

Thursday, May 1, 2025
“Fake it 'til you make it” won’t cut it when defending against cybersecurity attacks, especially when the “bad actors” are some of the best in the industry.
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Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Git, the most common protocol for computer programmers to keep track of their code, is becoming more secure because of software jointly developed by researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology and New York University.
Student hardware hackers at play, in the NJIT Makerspace

An Alarm Clock that Hides From You is Highlight of MakeNJIT Competition

Monday, April 28, 2025
A robotic alarm clock that hides from you, so you have to get out of bed anyway if you wish to silence it, was the star Highlander entry in the spring 2025 edition of the MakeNJIT hardware hackathon.
Danielle Grunwald is looking forward to putting her data science skills to good use

Data Science Major Danielle Grunwald Will Become an Axtria Analyst

Monday, April 21, 2025
Graduating NJIT senior Danielle Grunwald and her employer as of this summer, Axtria Inc., are made for each other — Grunwald loves digging into life sciences data to extract useful insights, and that’s the gist of what Axtria does.

JerseyCTF 2025 Was (A Lot) More Than Fun and Games

Monday, April 21, 2025
The NJIT JerseyCTF competition is now in its fifth year and has continued to draw competitors on-campus and around the world in a quest to hack their way through a...

NJIT Senior Lecturer Fuad Hamidli Shares Expert Insights at AARP's Newark Fraud Summit

Thursday, April 10, 2025
Fuad Hamidli, a senior university lecturer in the Ying Wu College of Computing and recognized expert in cryptography and cybercrime prevention, was a featured speaker and panelist at the AARP Newark Fraud Summit: Fraud 360 – Awareness, Prevention...
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3 NJIT Colleges Are Among US News 'Best Graduate Schools'

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report highlight the national standing of New Jersey Institute of Technology in the fields of engineering, computer science and now business.

Experience Day 2025: Accepted YWCC Students See the Fun Side of Computing

Friday, April 4, 2025
All hard work and no play makes “techies” anxious for more. 244 recently accepted high school seniors and their parents need not worry.

Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive Hackathons

Friday, March 28, 2025
Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025, one of the most competitive hackathons globally.

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science.