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An S-STEM Alumnus Who Did It on His Own – With the Right Support

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Rafael Abreu ’25 (Computer Science) came to the U.S. alone as a high school student from the Dominican Republic because he believed in the American dream: work hard, confront obstacles with grit and determination and create your destiny. He knew it would not be easy. But without risk there is no rew...

NJIT AI Researcher Makes Small Language Models Accessible

Thursday, January 29th, 2026
While ordinary people around the world are waking up to large language models on the cloud, researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology want you to know about the power of small models on your own hardware.It’s not unlike fifty years ago, when people were becoming aware of business computers t...

Hillier College Provides Art Courses for All Students with Arts@NJIT Initiative

Thursday, January 15th, 2026
From Leonardo da Vinci to Nam Jun Paik to Lillian Schwartz, art and technology have a long and intertwined relationship. Beginning in spring 2026, all NJIT students will have the opportunity to explore this productive feedback loop.Thanks to a generous gift from NJIT alumnus Ron Dooley (Mechanical E...

Companies Learn What’s Possible During Fall 2025 Capstone Program

Monday, December 22nd, 2025
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Capstone Program has been a defining benchmark in NJIT’s signature experiential learning approach for senior and select master’s students for over two decades. This graduation requirement tasks students with providing solutions to real-world challenges as entr...

YWCC Alumna Lead Authors Undergraduate Research Team Paper Accepted to ACM ASSETS Despite Challenges

Thursday, December 18th, 2025
Research on how large language models portray aging, conducted entirely by undergraduate students in the Ying Wu College of Computing, was published and accepted to ACM ASSETS, a top venue for computing and accessibility, with recent alumna Sherwin Dewan ’25 (Human-Computer Interaction) as lead auth...

In Augmented Reality Project, a Rodent of Unusual Size Educates Kids

Thursday, December 18th, 2025
New research shows that AI-enhanced augmented reality, when used for supporting computational thinking skills in K-12 education, can be more effective than simply letting children passively consume content built on the same technologies.Lei Zhang, assistant informatics professor in NJIT’s Ying Wu Co...

Future Cellular Networks Could Reach Top Speed with Help from NJIT Professor

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Sixth-generation mobile networks arriving in the 2030s will connect your smart devices by dozens or even hundreds of times faster than the data rates of today, and those networks might employ important research from New Jersey Institute of Technology and the State University of New York - Buffalo to...

For Students in NJIT Library Hackathon, There are Maps to the Stacks

Monday, December 8th, 2025
“Where do I find…” is the preponderant question from visitors to New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library — distributed across four levels and 56,000 square feet — so the library staff held a hackathon to find a better solution than just traditional signs.The winning team, announced D...

YWCC Expands K–12 Computing and Math Outreach Across Newark

Thursday, December 4th, 2025
Technology for the greater good of society. That is a principal tenet of the NJIT mission, and one that is carried forward by the university’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and its many initiatives to increase education and opportunity for K-12 students in the city of Newark. Several NJIT...

AI Minor at NJIT Creates a Foundation for All Students

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
The increasing need to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) pervades every aspect of daily life and has created new opportunities for students across all levels to learn about what is becoming fundamental to transforming the modern business infrastructure. Thanks to several recent ...