Alumni News

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and NJIT are now partners in education. The institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), as well as two other agreements involving NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), Oct. 25 in Beijing. Joel S. Bloom, NJIT president, and Jianyong Qiao, BUPT president, represented their respective universities, along with faculty and staff, at the signing.

College Freshman Orientation covers a lot in a short amount of time, but above all, it serves as a transition into a new phase in a college student’s life.  

A historic night in the making, the NJIT men's soccer team clinched the programs first-ever ASUN Conference regular season title behind a hat trick by redshirt junior Rene White in the Highlanders 5-0 shutout over Jacksonville in the final regular season match for both teams at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.   NJIT men's soccer captures its first-ever ASUN Conference regular season title and first title at the Division I level (first season 2004).    

Polina Zaitseva, an adjunct professor in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won an international competition for fashion and beauty films this month. Showstudio.com, operated by noted photographer Nick Knight, runs the contest known as the Film Fashion Awards. Zaitseva flew to London as a finalist and said she didn't expect to win.

One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group members. In modern times, finding a lost cell phone by using the application "Find My Device,” just to find it had slipped under a sofa pillow, relies on minute differences in the ringing sound that reaches the ears.

There are over 200 hazardous waste sites in Puerto Rico, including 24 Superfund sites, causing significant contamination of water resources. Air pollution from refineries, power plants, motor vehicles, and large ships at ports is also very high. Puerto Ricans stand out as the most health-disparate Hispanic subgroup; Puerto Rico has one of the highest preterm birth rates among all U.S. states and territories. The population is, on average, significantly poorer than the general U.S. population.

Hundreds of college students from throughout the Northeast will descend on NJIT on Oct. 27 to participate in a prestigious international programming competition.  The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), will host its Greater New York Region competition on NJIT’s campus this Sunday. Winners of the regional competition will advance to the national finals to be held next year in Atlanta.

Oct. 28, 2019 — NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts has announced that Julie Ancis will join the Department of Humanities as professor of psychology and director of cyberpsychology.

Equipped with shovels and spades, and tape measures and topsoil, first-year Dorman Scholars gathered behind Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) on a sunny weekend morning in early October to plant a variety of native species: New Jersey tea, blazing star, New England aster, lady fern, butterfly milkweed and coneflower. They were beautifying the ADHC grounds to be sure, but more importantly, they were continuing a project started by last year’s first-years to increase biodiversity on the NJIT campus.