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In Tough Job Market, Microcredentials Give Grads Edge While not all are of equal value, a new survey from Coursera found that the vast majority of employers are inclined to offer higher starting salaries to candidates with microcredentials.

Bank of America Bucks AI Job Fears With 2,000 Summer Interns Bank of America Corp. is continuing to hire even as artificial intelligence and other technology tools take over jobs and cut off many traditional career paths.

The capstone program is required for undergraduates, optional for master’s students, and continues to demonstrate how hands-on, practice-based learning delivers real results that exceed expectations – for competitive industry companies (Merck and Wakefern, among many others), and students themselves, who have an open forum to develop new products, expand creativity, and gain a greater sense of confidence in exploring what’s possible when ingenuity leads to discovery.

Spring 2026 Capstone Showcase Continues to Combine Experiential Learning with Real-World Solutions The Capstone Showcase is one of the final steps to completing a degree program in the Ying Wu College of Computing. It’s required of undergraduates, optional for master’s students, and continues to demonstrate how hands-on, practice-based learning delivers real results that exceed expectations ....

We commend Distinguished Professor Julie Ancis on being awarded a fellowship to participate in the prestigious Desert Academic Research Retreat at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel this summer. Her work there will include a presentation on cyberpsychology and social media research through the Center for the Study of Digital Politics and Strategy. She will also meet with BGU faculty to discuss planning for present and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for New Grads 2026, earning a place among the nation’s top workplaces for early-career professionals. It stands as the only higher education institution in New Jersey included among the state’s recognized employers.

NJIT Named One of Forbes’ ‘Best Employers for New Grads’ New Jersey Institute of Technology has been named one of Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for New Grads 2026, earning a place among the nation’s top workplaces for early-career professionals. It stands as the only higher education institution in New Jersey included among the state’s recogniz...

Distinguished Professor David Bader, a renowned expert in the field of high-performance computing, was recently named one of the industry's most influential researchers by Scientific Computing World. His work has had measurable impact across cybersecurity, healthcare and genomics, AI, energy and utilities, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and defense and government technology.

Q&A with David Bader, Recipient of Scientific Computing Honor NJIT’s David Bader, distinguished professor and director of the Institute for Data Science, was recently named one of the industry’s most influential researchers by Scientific Computing World.

The 2nd NJIT Workshop on Multimedia Intelligence (MMI 2026) welcomed 142 attendees for two days of talks, discussions, and community building around multimedia AI with leading researchers from 12 international institutions, including NUS (Singapore), NII (Japan), and Dublin City University (Ireland).

Professors Zephyr Yao and Iulian Neamtiu, funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, are developing a more secure method for preventing widespread software disasters when relying on AI to write code. Considering that 40% of large language model (LLM) generated programs are bug prone, and 60% of LLM's first attempts at code generation are insecure, this research could impact how developers approach the future of AI assisted code.

NJIT Cybersecurity Research Adds Protection to AI-Built Code Software that will harden the security of AI-developed code is being developed at New Jersey Institute of Technology, funded by a $450,000 National Science Foundation grant.NJIT professors Zephyr Yao and Iulian Neamtiu decided they’d seen enough of the downside of programming assisted by artificia...

To all of our 2026 master's and Ph.D. graduates: Go forth in the world and make us proud. You earned it!

These distinguished professors have recently been added to this week's NJIT Workshop on Multimedia Intelligence (MMI 2026):
• Vivek Singh (Rutgers)
• Lesia Semenova (Rutgers)
• Enrique Dunn (Stevens)
• Zining Zhu (Stevens)
• Ping Wang (Stevens)
• Yan Sun (NJIT)