Alumni News

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.
The NJIT group at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
October 8, 2019

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms. And after traversing the city, between midtown and downtown, they returned to NJIT at day’s end with a firsthand view and better understanding of the world of entrepreneurship.
October 1, 2019

NJIT Hosts Tech Giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft

NJIT students had a chance to connect with tech powerhouses Facebook, Google and Microsoft during information sessions held on campus. Sessions included tech challenges, puzzle competitions, panel discussions and résumé workshops.
September 28, 2019

NJIT Shuts Out Liberty 3-0, Picks Up First ASUN Victory

NJIT junior Thomas Radon scored a pair of goals and freshman keeper Samuel Reisgys recorded the shutout in the Highlanders' 3-0 win over visiting Liberty in ASUN Conference action on Saturday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.
September 30, 2019

Aseng, Chamberlain Lead Women's Soccer To 2-1 Win Over UNA

For the first time since joining the ASUN Conference in 2015, the NJIT women's soccer team has begun league play with a 2-0 record. The Highlanders held off the North Alabama Lions, 2-1, to improve to 5-3-2 on the season and earn back-to-back ASUN victories to open conference play.
September 29, 2019

Svennson Wins Flight Title as Men's Tennis Completes Season-Opening Tournament

Senior captain George Svensson continued his impressive start to his final season as a Highlander, winning his flight championship as the NJIT men's tennis team wrapped up action at The Star Group Invitational, which was hosted by Binghamton this weekend.
September 26, 2019

Dealing a Therapeutic Counterblow to Traumatic Brain Injury

A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The impact sets off a chemical reaction in the brain that ravages neurons and the networks that supply them with nutrients and oxygen.
September 30, 2019

NJIT Planned Its First Computer Lab 65 Years Ago, Used for Dissertations

There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960. This was not a unique situation. Most computers in 1960 were room-sized beasts performing logic through vacuum tubes. A few companies made smaller machines, when small was a relative term meaning something about the size of a Mini Cooper.
September 25, 2019

Powering Up the Navajo Nation: Glenn Steiger '70, '87

Glenn Steiger ’70, '87 is helping the Navajo Nation see the light — literally.
Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT
September 27, 2019

Honors Faculty Fellows Program Doubles Its Offerings in Year 2

A unique program that packages distinctive coursework with diverse experiences, by connecting NJIT students and faculty with leading corporations, governmental agencies and private donors, has expanded as it heads into its second year. Honors Faculty Fellows will feature twice as many classes and three additional Fellows during the Spring 2020 semester, all made possible by generous gifts to the university’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC), which administers the program.
September 24, 2019

NJIT Features Prominent Female Artists in New Exhibition

The J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) gallery at NJIT is honored to present an exhibition of twelve prominent female artists. Six hail from the East Coast and six are from the West. Exhibition co-curators Matthew Gosser and Gail Enns selected artists whose work deals with the idea of domesticity in several ways. The first is in subject matter and how particular content or imagery speaks to domestic issues or themes.
NJIT campus
September 24, 2019

NJIT's VentureLink Enters Agreements Supporting Innovation & Investment Between New Jersey & India

In an effort to promote mutually beneficial investment, trade and technological exchange opportunities between New Jersey and India, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) community business incubator, VentureLink, has partnered with two forward-thinking, respected business entities in India: The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the top not-for-profit association serving the information technology (IT) and business process management (BPM) industries in Indi
Prof. Eric Nersesian discussing the mixed-reality laboratory
September 23, 2019

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tech Get Real-World Use At NJIT MIXR Lab

An augmented and virtual reality educational game developed by the NJIT MIXR Laboratory, which is a dual project of the Ying Wu College of Computing and Hillier College of Architecture and Design, is being showcased at an important conference in Silicon Valley this month.
Prof. Cody Buntain studies the impact of social media on elections. He's testing a theory about the inevitability of users finding conspiracy theories if they exclusively follow single points of view long enough.
September 19, 2019

Put Away Your Smartphone to Understand Tech's Impact on Elections

Students wishing to understand the chaos of national politics might listen to Cody Buntain, a new assistant professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing informatics department, who said it succinctly: "Look away from the phone." Buntain joined NJIT this year to teach computer ethics and to research how computing systems can be built more resilient against misinformation campaigns.
September 17, 2019

NJIT is Number 2 on College Factual's List of Best Civil Engineering Programs Nationwide

For the second year in a row, the Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) program at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked number two in the nation by College Factual, a data analytics and research company that focuses on outcomes. Only Georgia Tech is ranked higher on the list of 206 programs evaluated, while MIT is third.

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