Alumni News

Danna Valentina Sánchez Hernández '25 dio un gran paso al dejar su país natal, Colombia, para realizar sus estudios universitarios en los Estados Unidos, y ahora esta decisión está dando sus frutos en NJIT – su investigación que explora la dinámica de fluidos y la locomoción de la vida marina le ha otorgado la oportunidad de ganar la prestigiosa beca Goldwater. Este año la clase de los ganadores de la beca Goldwater está compuesta por sólo 438 académicos de todo Estados Unidos.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new Extended Reality (XR) Laboratory on campus, where students and faculty can learn to use augmented- and virtual-reality as a learning and teaching tool. The lab is now open in Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, room 1402, across from the NJIT makerspace. It’s operated by the digital learning office and complements Ying Wu College of Computing’s MIXR Lab, where researchers study XR itself, on the third floor of the same building.

While thousands traveled westward and northward from New Jersey through bumper-to-bumper traffic to reach the totality of the solar eclipse on April 8, NJIT undergraduate physics students Anneliese Schmidt ’24 and Joseph Visone ’25 were finally able to relax. For them, the race to the eclipse was over, having finally finished deploying instrumentation in upstate New York to explore the question — How does the eclipse change the space environment near Earth?

The last day of the Penn Relays were memorable for several members of the NJIT track and field team.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) emerged triumphant at the recent American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Student Symposium, showcasing their engineering prowess and securing top positions across multiple competitions. Held at Stony Brook University from April 12-14, the symposium featured competition among 13 universities from New Jersey and New York. NJIT students, under the guidance of several advisors, demonstrated exceptional skills and innovation, earning accolades in various categories and earning spots in society-wide finals.

The Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) hosted its Design Showcase, the college’s flagship fundraising and networking event, which provides a chance for members of the Hillier College community to connect personally and professionally. This year’s event took place in the Jewel Box of One Gateway Center in downtown Newark.

Accomplished computer science and engineering professors at New Jersey Institute of Technology were among the featured speakers at a conference about creating “smart” cities that was organized by two centers of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management: the Leir Research Institute and Hub for Creative Placemaking. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Guiling “Grace” Wang talked about her research into developing responsive traffic signals whose timing adjusts based on the volume of traffic. Artificial intelligence is central to that project.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has the best return-on-investment of any public college in the state, at just under a quarter-million dollars within a decade of graduation, an analysis by Bloomberg News found. Bloomberg placed NJIT second among all Garden State colleges, behind only Princeton University, in its conclusions of the cost of attendance compared to your income by mid-career.

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design continues to help the local Newark community with projects that will transform the city’s public spaces.