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Freshman Wins Top Prize at HackNJIT, Zoo Theme Leads to Productive Apps

Monday, November 22, 2021
Students who developed software for game animation, package delivery, lecture transcription and wildlife sightings were all winners at HackNJIT this month.

Game Jam Brings Design Skills to Techies, Tech Skills to Designers

Tuesday, February 9, 2021
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...

Winners of Virtual HackNJIT Made Music, Chat App, Disease Detector

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in...

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

Tuesday, October 20, 2020
GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386...

Highlander Esports Team Looks to Level Up into Regional Powerhouse

Monday, February 24, 2020
Leaders of NJIT's esports team, which is among the most successful collegiate videogame groups in the region and one of...

Game Jam Brings Together Art, Computer Science, Design Students

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Broken droids, space rodents and unethical relationship therapists have one thing in common — they're all protagonists in video games developed at the NJIT edition of the annual...

High Schoolers Come to NJIT to Learn About Virtual Reality and Research

Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Students from the Hunterdon County Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy came to NJIT on Nov. 22 to participate in a study of the impact of virtual reality (...
Prof. Eric Nersesian discussing the mixed-reality laboratory

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Get Real-World Use At NJIT MIXR Lab

Monday, September 23, 2019
An augmented and virtual reality educational game developed by the NJIT MIXR Laboratory, which is a dual project of the Ying Wu College of Computing and Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is being showcased at an important conference in...

How Using Virtual Reality Helps to Make Real-World Roads Safer

Friday, August 2, 2019
Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community.