Alumni News

June 19, 2020

NJIT Mourns the Loss of Alumnus John J. Mooney, a Giant in the Fight Against Air Pollution

The New Jersey Institute of Technology community notes with great sadness the passing of John J. Mooney MS ’60, an inspired engineer, renowned inventor and beloved alumnus of Newark College of Engineering who is best known for developing a catalytic converter for vehicles that filters three toxic chemicals.
June 18, 2020

A Message from the President: Supreme Court's DACA Decision

NJIT Students, Faculty and Staff,
Donald "Will" Andrews-Human in Action Fellowship recipient
June 18, 2020

Honors Student Is the First at NJIT to Receive Prestigious Fellowship

Donald “Will” Andrews, NJIT’s first-ever recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship, attributes his selection for the distinguished summertime program to his choice of study at the university: industrial engineering. “There probably weren’t that many engineers that applied … so that made my application stand out from the start — like, ‘hey, look, we have an engineer from Kentucky applying for this social sciences fellowship in Europe,’” said Andrews laughingly.
June 18, 2020

Online Shopping Study Can Help Explain the Internet's Social Connections

Studying the evolution and function of online shopping communities could teach computer science researchers about online community-making in general, experts at NJIT said in a series of recent papers.  The papers cover the methods and motivations of how shoppers interact with each other online, and examine such communities depend on members’ participation and contributions, according to doctoral student Yu Xu and Assistant Professor Michael Lee, both of the informatics department of the Ying Wu College of Computing.
June 15, 2020

See It Again: Hillier College of Architecture and Design Awards Ceremony
June 15, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 6/15/20-6/19/20

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.
June 15, 2020

NJIT Joins America East Conference

The America East Conference and New Jersey Institute of Technology announced that the Highlanders will become the 10th full member institution of the America East, effective for the 2020-21 academic year.  NJIT will officially join the league July 1, 2020. 
Somenath Mitra, who has embedded carbon nanotubes in polymer composites, thin films, nanoelectronics and flexible batteries (above), is now deploying them in the fight against COVID-2.
June 15, 2020

NJIT's Mitra Deploys Nanoscopic Virus Killers in the Fight Against COVID-19

As medical researchers race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an NJIT scientist who specializes in nanomaterials is developing new methods to slow its spread in the environment.
NJIT Commencement 2020
June 12, 2020

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and for epitomizing what “Jersey Strong” is all about.
June 10, 2020

Senior Success: Coder Ayushi Sangoi is Also the Class of 2020's Outstanding Engineer

As it embarks on clinical trials at children’s hospitals across the country, a novel vision therapy device developed by NJIT engineers is generating streams of data on eye movements in need of rapid and precise analysis. Enter Ayushi Sangoi ’20*, coder par excellence, to the algorithmic rescue.
UPitch plaque for MAPD device
June 10, 2020

Students' Research Project Becomes Award-Winning Device at UPitch Contest

In 2019, Owais Aftab was in search of a summer research project to meet his degree requirements for independent study. The biomedical engineering/pre-health Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, then a first-year student, found what he was looking for after a conversation with one of his teachers, John Vito d'Antonio-Bertagnolli ’16, M.S. ’17.
June 9, 2020

Ying Wu College of Computing Starts New Effort to Recruit and Retain Women

A new plan to recruit and retain more women as computer science majors is beginning in earnest this summer at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing.
June 8, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 6/8/20-6/12/20

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.
June 8, 2020

NJ Presidents' Council Statement on Combating Systemic Racism and Fostering Inclusive Communities

NEWARK - In a display of our unwavering solidarity, all private, public, and community colleges and universities of New Jersey, and the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education share space today to comment on the latest display of our country’s horrific legacy of racism and violence against Black individuals.
June 8, 2020

Senior Success: Samantha Lomuscio, Cosmic Gamma-Ray Hunter

Exploring remote, exotic locations is a long-standing tradition among college students. For applied physics major Samantha Lomuscio ’20, that destination during her senior year has been Jupiter, nearly 390 million miles away. Working with astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), where she began conducting high-energy astrophysics research last summer, her goal has been to detect the solar system’s largest planet in a way that has never been done successfully — through gamma-ray emissions.
June 5, 2020

NJIT to Confer Degrees at Virtual Commencement Exercises June 12

Welcome to the NJIT Virtual Commencement Ceremony! For your convenience, candidates are being presented by their respective college/school, and all Doctoral Candidates are presented as one inclusive group. Once you proceed to view the ceremony you will need to go to the upper right hand corner, click on the tab marked “1/8” and choose the ceremony that you wish to view.
June 5, 2020

NJIT's Digital Design Major Again Tops in N.J., Says Industry Website

NJIT's digital design major is the best in New Jersey for the second year in a row, according to industry website Animation Career Review. The Bachelor of Arts degree in digital design -- which has tracks for entertainment and production, as part of the School of Art+Design in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design -- also received strong marks for its standing on the East coast, nationally among public schools and nationwide overall. 
Industrial engineering alumna Rukayat Balogun
June 11, 2020

Senior Success: Rukayat Balogun's STEM Journey Takes Her to Facebook

Since the end of March, Rukayat Balogun has been working remotely for Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will move to the Atlanta area in July for this position, which came her way last fall when a fellow student in NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) introduced Balogun to a visiting Facebook recruiter. The company flew her down south for what turned out to be a series of video interviews, followed by a bit of a wait.
June 4, 2020

Class of 2020 Outstanding Graduates Make Their Marks

Thousands of students earned their degrees this year at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here is a collection of their stories, focusing on what they're doing next. Click on the headlines below to read more.  
June 3, 2020

Senior Success: Mary McGuinness is Off to Study Oceanography

Chemistry student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Mary McGuinness will graduate this semester and will continue her academic career as a master's student at University of Connecticut studying oceanography. Congratulations, Mary!  

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