Alumni News

Seven Highlanders Named to USFCA 2020 Mid-Atlantic/South All-Region Teams

The United States Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) has announced the 2020 NCAA Fencing Mid-Atlantic/South All-Region teams, which was released by the organization Wednesday. These awards are determined based on result and field size at each of the NCAA Regional Competitions.

Thomas Manley and Dorottya Berczy Earn USFCA 2020 All-American Honors

Junior Thomas Manley and freshman Dorottya Berczy have been named to the United States Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) 2020 NCAA Fencing All-American teams, which was released by the organization Wednesday.

NJIT Physics Team Provides Novel Swab Design, Free of Charge, to Augment COVID-19 Testing

A team of NJIT physicists has developed a novel test swab that can be 3D printed using inexpensive, widely available materials and speedily assembled in a range of fabrication settings. To augment the nation’s testing capabilities, the inventors are making the swab’s design publicly available to large and small manufacturers, free of licensing fees, during the COVID-19 emergency.

Smartphone Users Can Keep Privacy During Opt-In Behavior Research

Informatics department Assistant Professor Hai Phan is studying how to protect privacy in mobile applications that track a user's behavior. Phan received a $100,000 grant from a major technology company for the project, Detecting Human Behaviors from Smartphones Using Federated Machine Learning in the Wild.

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May 5 Is Deadline for Ordering Commencement Regalia

Class of 2020 graduates have until this Tuesday, May 5, to order their Commencement regalia and have it shipped to them. Wearing Commencement regalia is necessary to participate in NJIT’s virtual Commencement ceremony, to be held Friday, June 12. Students are urged to visit the Commencement website for details on ordering Commencement regalia. The website provides additional important information, including the deadlines for students to submit the correct pronunciation of their name, as well as photos and videos.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 4/27/20-5/1/20

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.

COVID-19 University Update from President Joel S. Bloom

NJIT Community Members,

NJIT Backgrounds for Video Calls

Highlanders, we know that online classes have meant increasing your time on video conferencing apps. So the next time you open your laptop to hop on your online class, bring a piece of NJIT's campus into the call! Click on the each photo below to download a high res version to program into your video conferencing apps & show off your NJIT pride!

Zach Cooks Earns All-Met Honor for Second-Straight Season

Zach Cooks, a junior captain on the NJIT men's basketball team, earned another accolade on Tuesday, securing Third Team honors from the Metropolitan Writers Basketball Association (MBWA).

Pair of Highlanders Earn AVCA All-America Honors

A pair of Highlanders, outside hitter Alvaro Gimeno and middle blocker Luca Berger were named to the 2020 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) men's Division I-II All-America team.

NSF CAREER Award for Simplifying Crowdsource Requests

NJIT's Senjuti Basu Roy, assistant professor of computer science, received a prestigious National Science Foundation award announced this month for her research addressing inefficiencies of deploying tasks in crowdsourced labor services.

Theater Returns to NJIT: Virtual Series Explores Quarantine Life, Zoom As Stage

Even in the social distancing era, the show must go on for the art world. That includes the NJIT/Rutgers-Newark theatre arts community, which is soon returning to its audiences with a string of all-new virtual performances exploring art, click-based technology and social connections during physical isolation.

Jeremy Bedient, Intern of the Year 2020

Engineering Student Lands J&J Co-op, Named NJIT's Intern of the Year

When Jeremy Bedient was navigating Career Development Services’ (CDS) Spring 2019 Career Fair, seeking a co-op with Johnson & Johnson was nowhere on his radar. But at the moment he passed by the company’s supply-chain booth and saw there was no line, he figured “why not” and took advantage of the opportunity to network with the recruiter. They wound up engaging in a great conversation about Six Sigma, and Bedient was invited to interview for a spot later that week.

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NJIT Ranked 26th Nationwide for Return on Investment

UniversityHQ, “an independent source of information for students pursuing higher education options and/or advancement in their career field,” has ranked NJIT among the country’s Top 55 colleges for return on investment (ROI). The university placed 26th out of 3,300 schools nationwide and joins only two other New Jersey higher education institutions in the listing.

Volunteerism: helping hands

Scholarship Recipients are Winners in Community Service

Volunteerism continues to be part of the foundation of NJIT. In 2019 alone, the university’s students contributed more than 67,000 hours of community service and gave their time to over 300 community-based organizations.

Vector Wins Two Awards in NJ College Journalism Contest

NJIT's student newspaper, The Vector, won third place for general excellence in the 2019-2020 edition of the New Jersey Press Association collegiate contest. It was the staff's first time entering the competition. The association praised the students' range of story ideas and graphics layout. Some of the paper's significant articles this year covered campus sustainability, studio culture among architecture majors, a graduate student protest and the lead in the city of Newark's drinking water.

Experts on Built Environment Design Training For Scoring Energy Efficiency

Members of NJIT’s Center for Building Knowledge (CBK) have produced training material for how to use the first standardized tool for evaluating and scoring the energy efficiency of buildings. Approximately 129 million households and more than 4.7 million commercial buildings account for close to 40% of total U.S. energy use, consuming more energy than the transportation or industry sectors, according to the U.S.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 4/20/20-4/24/20

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.

Computer Science Alum Leads Mask-Making Effort in Morris County

A team of teachers in Morris and Essex counties, looking to do their part to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic, has produced almost 500 face masks, 700 face shields and 1,400 ear guards, led by NJIT alumna Jessica Liatys of the class of 2010. Liatys teaches technology education at Chatham Middle School. She honed her STEM chops with a bachelor's degree in information technology, following that up with a master's in network security in 2016.

Designing and Building with Technology and Data: The Human Factor

On a recent visit to NJIT, Master of Architecture alumna Kate Maher, shared some insights about how technology and data shape human behavior and the practice of architecture. In her role as creative director at Gensler London, part of her job is to understand how a data-driven understanding of human behavior can be applied in the design of the spaces and environments where we spend time and interact.

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