Alumni News

NJIT Athletics is proud to announce 11 new members that will make up the 2020 Hall of Fame induction class. The Annual Hall of Fame induction banquet will be held on May 16, 2020 in NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced.

Robotics have been part of NJIT engineering curricula for many years, and now the invasion is encroaching on architecture majors, too. It's important for architects to learn about the abilities and limitations of robots, experts say, because the assembly processes and visual appearance of buildings could be planned differently if the construction workers are metal-and-silicon instead of flesh-and-blood.

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) President, Donald H. Sebastian and NJII Board Members, Dean Paranicas, Michele Siekerka and Debbie Hart have been named to the NJBIZ Manufacturing Power 50 for 2019. 

Electric car chargers are becoming more common here at NJIT despite a variety of cultural obstacles and engineering hurdles. There are approximately 5,600 registered drivers per semester, a few dozen of which own electric cars, and 22 chargers on campus. "The university wants to promote sustainable transportation. A main player in that realm is electric vehicles," said Rob Gjini, assistant vice president for facilities systems. Using the spaces is free and there aren't any plans to charge fees for them.

Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to nine months of additional post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, up to $30,000. Recipients must be enrolled in a STEM degree program or seeking a teaching certificate.

For the 14th year in a row, NJIT will host the New Jersey Science Olympiad (NJSO). The university expects upward of 700 middle and high school students on campus Jan. 6, 2020, (snow date Jan. 13) for the event, which is part of a national science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) competition. Participants must possess both strong academic achievements and a great interest in the STEM fields.

Well, no, not quite. He — they were all “he” then — technically graduated from Newark Technical School. But it counts. His name was Maj. George Oakley Totten, Jr. He was born in New York City on December 5, 1866, to George Oakley and Mary Elizabeth (Styles) Totten. George’s family had a long history in New York; his ancestors fought in the American Revolution and his great-grandfather founded Tottenville in Staten Island. George’s father (“senior” to his “junior”) was a New York-based businessman who became a chief real estate investor in Newark.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in collaboration with New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT corporation, has announced it will soon offer both a Professional Science Masters (PSM) degree program and professional graduate certificate in the rapidly expanding field of cell and gene therapy.

Jan. 6, 2020 -- As part of SpaceX’s CRS-19 resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched Dec. 5, researchers from NASA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and New York University (NYU) are set to begin a new scientific investigation to explore how a group of microscopic particles considered key “building blocks” for materials and products here on Earth, known as colloidal particles, behave and form in zero-gravity.