Alumni News

November 11, 2019

Çelik Wins Prestigious Tamayouz Award for Middle East Research

Zeynep Çelik, a distinguished professor in the NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won this year's Tamayouz Women in Architecture and Construction award for her research and writing about the Middle East and North Africa. The award series, named for the Arabic word meaning excellence, began in 2012. Çelik picked up the Woman of Outstanding Achievement prize.
November 10, 2019

NJIT Advances to ASUN Finals; Rabell, White and Watkins Net Goals in 3-2 Win

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), the top-seed in the 2019 ASUN Conference Tournament had three players net a goal in the Highlanders' 3-2 victory over fourth-seeded Stetson in the ASUN Conference Men's Soccer Semifinals on Sunday afternoon at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.  
November 11, 2020

Veteran's Day Message from President Bloom

On this Veterans Day, NJIT salutes all those who have served our country in the United States Armed Forces. We are especially proud of and grateful for the many NJIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni who have served our nation bravely. With enduring admiration, we thank you for the many sacrifices you and your loved ones have made for all of us. Be well, and stay safe. Sincerely, NJIT President Joel S. Bloom
November 11, 2019

NJIT's Brooke Flammang Wins 2019 Young Investigator Award

Brooke Flammang, assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, has been named winner of the 2019 Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award by the scientific journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. Flammang is the third-ever winner of the international award, started in 2017 in honor of biomechanics pioneer Steven Vogel. The honor is externally nominated by the journal to annually recognize early career excellence in the journal's field, and is open to researchers in the 10 years after completing their Ph.D. 
November 8, 2019

GirlHacks Winner Aims to Help Students with Hearing Loss

Anupriya Gotkhindi was listening to a lecture in her machine learning graduate class when she noticed a sign language translator having difficulty trying to decipher the complex issues being taught and the technical terms used by the instructor.
November 7, 2019

Ways to Get Ahead Over Winter Break

It’s nearing the end of the semester - you’re probably juggling final projects and preparing for final exams. Don’t worry - winter break is right around the corner! Whether you’re spending the break on campus or returning home for the short break, you can use the time to get ahead for the semester.   
Kamela Chandrika, first-gen college student at NJIT
November 7, 2019

This First-Gen College Student Is Becoming a Leader and Making an Impact

Kamela Chandrika, a soft-spoken third-year biomedical engineering major, remembers some of the challenges she faced during her first days at NJIT — like going to the Bursar’s Office to pay her tuition bill, but not knowing how to fill out a check.
November 5, 2019

College Stress Relief: Ways to Reduce Stress

Carrying a semester load of classes, managing a social life and having free time can be extremely taxing for a college student. Here’s a useful guide to making sure you are feeling your very best during these stressful times.
November 6, 2019

NJIT Avanade Scholars Meet CEO Pam Maynard

Written by Shravanthi Budhi
November 5, 2019

NJIT Students Compete With Region's Best in Programming Competition

An NJIT team finished in the top third at this year's regional bracket of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, approximately matching last year's result and leaving members with valuable lessons for next year and for their careers beyond.
November 12, 2019

Practical Project Experience Provides Students With Valuable Career Preparation

Employment is becoming increasingly skills-focused. Indeed, the abilities to communicate effectively, problem-solve and quickly learn and apply new technologies, for instance, are proving to be of the utmost importance for landing jobs and nurturing early careers.
Jianyong Qiao, BUPT president (seated left), and Joel S. Bloom, NJIT president (seated right), sign agreements between the two universities as faculty and staff look on.
November 5, 2019

NJIT Signs 3 Agreements to Collaborate With Chinese University

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.
David Rothenberg playing music on a boat
November 4, 2019

Professor David Rothenberg & His Orca-stra for Humpback Whales

NJIT’s very own Professor David Rothenberg is well-known for his music philosophy. Rothenberg has spent many years combining music and nature, to create music that features the natural world including birds, whales and insects. In fact, he has been referred to as an “interspecies musician.” Recently, Rothenberg has collaborated with Pattern Radio, a project in partnership with Google and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to collect thousands of hours of whale songs.
November 4, 2019

New Experiences at New Student Orientation

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.  
Highlander Halloween 2019
November 4, 2019

Highlander Halloween

NJIT students were creepin’ it real this All Hallow’s Eve! NJIT’s campus was busy with lots of ghouls, goblins and ghosts!    Check out some of the Highlander Halloween costumes this year:  
November 2, 2019

NJIT Clinches ASUN Conference Regular Season Title in Historic Night

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).    
Part of a menu diagram for EIES from 1977
October 31, 2019

NJIT Research in 1970s Became Vital Parts of Today's Social Media Recipe

Long before social networks, instant messengers, web forums, Internet Relay Chat, AOL, Compuserve, and dial-up bulletin board systems, there was EIES – Electronic Information Exchange System, pronounced like the word eyes – developed here at NJIT in the 1970s.
A scene from the film
October 31, 2019

Hillier Prof. Zaitseva Wins Fashion Film Award

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.
A doctor's stethoscope
October 30, 2019

Tech Treatment: NJIT Re-engineering Team Helps Local Emergency Department

Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades. Among other notable rankings, the acute-care teaching hospital has received 16 A ratings in a row from the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, and is one of less than 41 hospitals in the country to achieve this consistency.
October 29, 2019

An NJIT Engineer Proposes a New Model for the Way Humans Localize Sounds

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.

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