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Free College Persistence Mentoring Available to NJIT Students

Through the university’s partnership with Strive for College, an online college mentoring platform, NJIT students are invited to participate in a free pilot program over the next year aimed at helping them complete their courses, earn a degree and prepare for living-wage careers after college.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/25/20-5/29/20

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.

NJIT Day of Caring: Support the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Senior Success: Google Hires Software Engineer David Michaelson

David Michaelson is the latest Ying Wu College of Computing graduate to enter Google's software engineering residency program. Michaelson finished his computer science degree in May with plenty of experience. Besides studying, he worked 20 hours per week for several semesters starting in 2018 as an applications development intern at Broadridge Financial Solutions, riding his electric scooter back and forth between NJIT and downtown Newark.

Senior Success: Biology Major Chloe Jelley is an Entomologist-in-the-Making

As a kid growing up in Omaha, Neb., Chloe Jelley ’20 had a major aversion to insects that many can relate with. “I was one of the more careful kids and I was not into bugs at all when I was young … actually, I was really afraid of all bugs,” recalled Jelley.

September 9, 2020

NJIT Ranks #74 Nationally in QS USA 2020 Rankings, #3 in NJ

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked third in New Jersey and 74th nationally in a Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking® USA 2020 list, placing NJIT in the top 10% of universities nationwide.

Senior Success: Josh Gallic Launches Career at Valcor Engineering

Mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Josh Gallic will graduate this semester and has a job offer from Valcor Engineering to be a junior design engineer.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/18/20-5/22/20

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.

Adapting to a Pandemic: What Was Gained and What Was Lost

The Covid-19 pandemic presented some challenges that may have been unique to the students and faculty in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD). Architecture and design are taught in a collective process, with students working together in large studios and maker spaces, where the interchange of ideas, methods, and technical know-how is how students learn.

Three Highlander Programs Receive NCAA Academic Performance Public Recognition

Three NJIT Athletic programs were recognized in the NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program for the 2018-19 academic year for ranking in the top 10% for Academic Progress Rate (APR) in their respective sport the NCAA announced on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. The NJIT men's cross country, women's tennis and women's volleyball programs all had scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sport.

Student's App Helps Organize Remediation of Lead Pipes for Water Supply

A recent graduate in computer science played a small but important role in fixing the city of Newark's problem of lead in its public water supply. The student, Sammy Faraj, did his part by developing a database and mobile application for Newark-based Roman E&G Corp., which needed to organize photographs of where its workers were replacing outdated lead pipes with modern copper ones for the city government’s remediation project.

NJIT Senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz Lands Merck R&D Internship to Work on Vaccines

Biochemistry senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz hasn’t wasted much time during her past three years at NJIT. Outside of class, she’s spent most of her free hours inside the university’s labs researching an aspect of time itself — our circadian clock, or the internal biological clock that helps takes us through various phases of the day from morning to night.

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!

Student Parth Agrawal of The CommonHealth Project

Students' Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home

For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJIT, for example, hears stories from his mother, a physician working on the front line at Mountainside Hospital.

David Marcano Named to the 2020 ASUN Spring Winners for Life Team

NJIT junior David Marcano has been selected to the 2020 ASUN Conference Spring Winners for Life team, the league office announced Thursday.

Senior Success: Darius Singletary Answers Call of Duty at NJIT

It isn't an easy balance between working and going to school — especially for students determined to excel in the challenging studies they take on at NJIT. But even considering the double-life that many students endure to help pay their way while earning their coveted degree, Darius Singletary has gone beyond the call of duty in his five years at NJIT.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/11/20-5/15/20

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.

Senior Success: The Skyline Soars on Engineer Niyam Shah's Horizon

For his senior capstone project, Niyam Shah went big: The civil engineering major and his teammates designed a 40-story commercial tower with a thick concrete core and X-patterned steel bracing for an empty lot on Manhattan’s building-jammed West Side.

Senior Success: Chloe Blottman Is an Interior Designer at M Moser Associates

Chloe Blottman, who is graduating this semester with a Bachelor of Arts in interior design, found a job at M Moser Associates thanks to her networking skills and career readiness.

Mental Health, COVID-19 & Our Tech: Q&A with NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis

The current pandemic has deeply influenced our social behavior in many ways, among the most obvious being that while physical interaction is way down, screen time is way up — some early estimates since March showed total web hits jumping up to 70%, and streaming content by at least 30% worldwide.

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