Alumni News

October 23, 2019

Interior Design Program Ranks High in Report From National Magazine

NJIT's Hillier College of Architecture and Design improved in several rankings by Design Intelligence magazine this month. Our interior design program ranked second nationwide for the most hires among 15 similar-sized programs, an impressive improvement from its 14 ranking last year. The magazine also cited interior design coordinator David Brothers as one of the 16 most-admired educators in his field.
October 18, 2019

Security Expert On Guard For NJIT Networks, Prepares Users For Digital Wilds

Five monitors adorn George Eliopoulos' desk — he tried six and said it was too many — where the security analyst is responsible for protecting NJIT computer systems from malicious hackers.
October 18, 2019

NJIT VentureLink Inventors Fortify Weak Links in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

The surge in mail-order drug deliveries, amid rising temperatures and climate volatility, presents a growing challenge to the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Every time vaccine is subject to excessive heat or cold, for example, its potency may be diminished, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A single exposure to freezing temperatures can destroy a batch entirely.
Forensic science professor, David Fisher, addresses the crowd at Pre-College's STEM Forum.
October 18, 2019

Pre-College STEM Forum Focuses on Forensic Science

NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) hosted its third annual STEM School Leadership Forum Oct. 3 on the university’s campus. The free networking event brings together superintendents and other education professionals to discuss how best to expand and enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instruction in secondary schools.
NJIT student Tomi Antoljak spoke at the university's TEDx talk on resilience.
October 18, 2019

Martin Tuchman School of Management at TEDxNJIT

TEDxNJIT aims to bring innovation and remarkable people together to share a TED-like experience in Newark. This year’s event was all about stories of resilience from guest speakers of all different backgrounds, including the following members of Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM). Tomi Antoljak
October 16, 2019

NJIT Scientists Aim to Triple the Life of Batteries Used in Everyday Appliances

Scientists at NJIT have developed high-capacity, printable-on-demand batteries for everyday appliances that are designed to last nearly three times as long as those currently on store shelves.
October 14, 2019

Samuel Reisgys Earns ASUN Conference Defensive Player of the Week

NJIT freshman goalkeeper Samuel Reisgys has been selected ASUN Conference Defensive Player of the Week the conference office announced on Monday. The 6-foot-3 goalkeeper picks up his third career Defensive Player of the Week honor after posting a clean sheet on Saturday in the Highlanders 2-0 win over visiting North Florida in ASUN action. Reisgys, from Rimbach, Germany, recorded his fourth career shutout of the season, posting two saves against the Ospreys.
October 12, 2019

Men's Soccer Blanks Visiting North Florida in ASUN Action

NJIT's Gerald Cubero and Regsan Watkins registered goals for NJIT and Samuel Reisgys picked up his fourth shutout in the Highlanders 2-0 home victory over visiting North Florida in ASUN Conference action at L
November 5, 2019

NJIT Professor Wins Fulbright Award, Joins Int'l Circadian Clock Research Project

Casey Diekman, associate professor of mathematics at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been named recipient of a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to the United Kingdom in Mathematical Biology.  
October 15, 2019

NJIT Develops New Computer Memory Control to Speed Up Cloud Servers

Virtual machines are an important kind of software, invented in the 1960s but only popular since the 2000s, that enables servers to run several operating systems simultaneously — but lately they're facing an efficiency problem that NJIT professor Xiaoning Ding believes he can address.
Facebook engineer-in-residence Noah Cantor (kneeling)
October 14, 2019

NJIT Collaboration with Facebook Boosts Opportunities for Students

Catarina DeMatos’ experience with Facebook started with a surprise in the fall of 2018.  She walked into her CS 114 class and learned her instructor was Miki Friedmann, a Facebook software engineer and a visiting faculty member at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing.
October 9, 2019

NJIT Launches ScholarshipUniverse: A Scholarship-Matching Tool for Students

Oct. 9, 2019 – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has announced it is now offering a new way for students to connect with scholarship opportunities through the launch of ScholarshipUniverse — a “state-of-the-art digital scholarship-matching system aimed toward maximizing funding for students.”
October 5, 2019

NJIT Shuts Out VMI, 5-0, Rene White Becomes NJIT D1 All-Time Scoring Leader

NJIT redshirt junior Rene White scored a pair of goals and became NJIT's Division I All-Time scoring leader with 28 goals as the Highlanders shutout visiting VMI, 5-0, in non-conference men's soccer action on Homecoming Weekend at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.   In pregame ceremonies, NJIT recognized the Lubetkin and Simon Families in a re-dedication of Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium, the home for the NJIT men's and women's soccer and men's lacrosse teams.
October 4, 2019

NJIT Student Launching New Mobile Payment App for Small Businesses

Stop in any Starbucks or McDonalds and you’ll see the signs by the credit card reader: Google Pay accepted here, Apple Pay accepted, or tap to pay.  Visit a vendor at a farmers market and you’ll find many accept credit or debit cards using an attachment on their smartphone from Square or Clover.
MTSM students and faculty visit the Federal Reserve Bank.
October 7, 2019

Highlanders Take a Trip to the Federal Reserve

As the state of our economy receives greater and greater attention, last week a group of Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) business students were given the opportunity to leave their classrooms and see things for themselves at the New York Federal Reserve in New York City. Organized by Zhipeng Yan, corporate finance professor and associate dean, and accompanied by Oya I. Tukel, MTSM dean, the trip brought business students to the financial capital of the world, where they enjoyed an inside look at the gold vaults hidden some 80 feet beneath its busy streets.
October 10, 2019

Two Recent Grants Support Programs and Services for Pre-College Students

NJIT is one of six higher education partners in New Jersey awarded federal funding over the next seven years, from the U.S. Department of Education, for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). Here in Newark, the university’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) administers GEAR UP, which provides academic enrichment opportunities to economically disadvantaged middle and high school students with the aim to improve their college attendance and success.
October 4, 2019

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award.
October 3, 2019

NJIT Promotes Lenny Kaplan to Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics

Lenny Kaplan, who has headed New Jersey Institute of Technology's division of physical education and athletics since August 2000, has been promoted to the new title of associate vice president/director of athletics. Kaplan has been instrumental in guiding the program's growth, first at the NCAA Division II level and, since late 2002, in its successful reclassification to NCAA Division I.
Dorman Scholars, computer science majors and hackathon winners Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan
October 4, 2019

NJIT Students Come in 1st With Election-Inspired Hackathon Project

It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win.
As a Gilman Scholar, Mohamed Mohamed will study entrepreneurship and marketing at SKEMA Business School this fall.
October 3, 2019

Management School Heads to France for Spring Break Study Abroad

Building on last year’s fruitful trip to Germany, NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), in collaboration with the university’s Office of Global Initiatives, is again offering a faculty-led study abroad trip during Spring Break — this time to Lyon, France, in March 2020. Students will learn about international marketing principles through visits with French companies, including JP Riviere Winery and Groupe SEB, and lectures at ESDES, the business school of UCLy — Lyon Catholic University.

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