Alumni News

Donald J. Reifer '69 To Receive NJIT Alumni Achievement Award

Donald J. Reifer ’69 is recognized as an agile thought leader and a leading figure in the fields of software engineering and management. He has more than 40 years of management experience in industry, academia and government. He is skilled in program/project/product management, development, metrics, measurement and change management. He has led major agile enterprisewide initiatives, headed process improvement efforts, built businesses, managed major programs and changed the way organizations did their business.

Anthony Schuman To Receive NJIT Van Houten Award

Anthony Schuman is Professor of Architecture in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, where he has taught for 40 years. He typically teaches a design studio plus a seminar class each semester. He is currently leading an upper-year undergraduate “options” studio addressing three adjacent parcels in Newark’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Last fall, he offered an elective seminar called “Envisioning Newark”, which takes students off-campus each week to meet leaders in the public, nonprofit, institutional and corporate sectors.

Management school professors Stacie Tao and Alan Yan

Investigating the Investment Environment

While shares in foreign firms known as American depositary receipts (ADRs) can help diversify investors’ portfolios and fetch high returns, they also pose risk in countries where protections for investors are limited and firms’ information environments – the quality, quantity and timing of earnings releases – are unpredictable or opaque. Finance researchers Zhipeng (Alan) Yan and Xinyuan (Stacie) Tao are examining how the stock-price activity of ADRs, which are traded in the U.S. financial market and denominated in U.S. dollars, reflect these uncertainties.

Oya Tukel, dean of Martin Tuchman School of Management and professor of supply chain management

Allocating Limited Resources for Megaprojects on Deadline

For much of her career, Oya Tukel, dean of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management and a professor of supply chain management, has researched problems in resource-constrained project scheduling that can cause significant delays, particularly for large, complex projects that require thousands of activities.

Ying Wu Grad Students to Get Quantum Computing Course in Fall '20

Quantum computing will be offered as a new course for computer science graduate students beginning next fall. This marks the first time the subject is available outside of a special-topics course or independent study in the Ying Wu College of Computing here at NJIT.

Simulated 'Frankenfish Brain-Swaps' Reveal Senses Control Body Movement

Plenty of fictional works like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein have explored the idea of swapping out a brain from one individual and transferring it into a completely different body. However, a team of biologists and engineers has now used a variation of the sci-fi concept, via computer simulation, to explore a core brain-body question.

NJIT campus

NJIT a Top Graduate School for Engineering for the 17th Straight Year

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2021 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university moved up two slots this year to No. 87 — up 24 slots in the past five years — and has been included on the distinguished list since 2003.

NJII's Biopharma Division Announces Its Advisory Committee

The New Jersey Innovation Institute’s (NJII) Biopharma division is pleased to announce the formation of their advisory committee which includes experts from across the industry. The committee will meet quarterly and provide strategic direction to the division as well as help identify emerging opportunities and challenges in the area of regenerative medicine.

Graduate studies class at NJIT

NJIT Is Mad for Graduate Studies, With More Than 100 Academic Programs and Counting: Part 2

From traditional classroom learning and accelerated programs to online and hybrid (combining online and face-to-face) instruction, graduate students at NJIT have a variety of options to earn advanced degrees. They also have a lot of choice, with 50+ master’s programs (including 15 fully online), 19 doctoral programs and 40 certificate programs representing an array of STEM disciplines.

NJIT graduate student

NJIT Is Mad for Graduate Studies, With More Than 100 Academic Programs and Counting: Part 1

They represent a sizable segment of NJIT’s student population — about a quarter — and come from around the country and the world to attend the university and acquire advanced skills to secure successful professional careers. Indeed, graduate students are pursuing degrees in a range of academic disciplines through a variety of instructional formats, from traditional classroom or face-to-face learning, to online and hybrid (combines online and face-to-face) learning.

NJIT Robotics Club Qualifies for Vex World Championships Tournament

NJIT's robotics club just stamped its ticket to the world championships tournament of a top-level league, despite competing as underdogs this season after all of its top members graduated last year. Chief engineer Yichao Zhang and lead programmer Dale Nacianceno — the former a senior, the latter a freshman — are leading the Highlanders to Louisville, Ky. to play in a tournament comprising up to 92 teams, after qualifying with a victory at a College of Southern Maryland tournament in February.

Happy Pi(e) Day, Highlanders!

It’s no secret that citizens in Northern New Jersey like to debate over where the best slice is -- and no NJIT student is hiding the fact that they enjoy a nice slice to break up their study sessions. We’ve asked a handful of NJIT students to tell us where their favorite pizza places were in Newark or near campus. Here’s a list of places around campus to pick up your favorite slice: Giovanni Pizza Pasta & Grill: 191 Central Avenue, Newark NJ 07102

COVID-19 Campus Update and New Measures

Dear NJIT Community Members,

President's Council Launches 'Be More in NJ' Campaign

Men's Volleyball Upsets No. 11 Princeton in Straight Sets

NJIT upset No. 11 Princeton in straight sets, 3-0, (30-28, 25-18, 25-22) Friday evening in EIVA men's volleyball action inside Dillion Gymnasium. NJIT (9-5 overall, 4-3 EIVA) are winners of three in a row. The Highlanders have now defeated three nationally ranked teams this season – USC (then-ranked No. 12), Purdue Fort Wayne (then-ranked No. 11) and Princeton (ranked No. 11).

Thomas Manley to Represent NJIT at 2020 National Collegiate Men's Fencing Championships

Senior Thomas Manley will represent NJIT at the 2020 National Collegiate Men's Fencing Championships in the Men's Foil on March 19-22 in Detroit, Michigan.

NJIT Launches NJ Brownfields Assistance Center

New Jersey communities grappling to bring damaged properties to productive reuse will now be able to turn to NJIT experts for advice, as the university recently launched NJ Brownfields Assistance Center @ NJIT, the first of its kind center that solely serves New Jersey.

Industrial engineering alumna Rukayat Balogun

Industrial Engineering Grad's Journey in STEM Takes Her to Facebook

By the end of this month, Rukayat Balogun will be working at Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will be located just outside of Atlanta for this new position, which came her way last fall when a fellow student in NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) introduced Balogun to a visiting Facebook recruiter. The company flew her down south for what turned out to be a series of video interviews, followed by a bit of a wait.

Women of Color Looking to the Past and Future for Diversity in Architecture

In the 1950s and 60s it was uncommon to see a black woman practicing architecture. Norma Merrick Sklarek, pictured above during her tenure at Gruen Associates, was an uncommon woman. She excelled in math and science despite having few peers at her predominantly white high school and virtually no role models in the workplace.

Dale McLeod, HR VP

Dale A. McLeod Appointed Vice President for Human Resources at NJIT

NJIT has appointed Dale A. McLeod as its new vice president for human resources. McLeod will join the university effective March 16 with the dual mission of delivering a world-class human resources function with a strong service orientation for faculty and staff, and supporting the objectives of the university’s new strategic plan, Building on a Strong Foundation–NJIT 2025.

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