Alumni News

Marjorie Perry ’05, president and CEO of MZM Construction and Management, sits in a meeting room inside NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC). Her well-manicured hands are folded on top of a large conference table. Pink nail polish adds a pop of color to her all-black ensemble. She removes a Harvard-emblazoned lanyard from around her neck and lays it on the table. “I’m scared to death,” she says.

William V. Rapp, Martin Tuchman School of Management’s Henry J. Leir Professor of International Trade and Business, and director of the Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research, was one of 34 presenters invited to discuss the 2019 economic forecast at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s 32nd Annual Economic Outlook Symposium. The event, held Nov. 30, welcomed participants from manufacturing, banking, academia and other industries, and consulting and service firms.

Atam Dhawan, senior vice provost for research at NJIT, has recently been selected to chair the Independent Expert Board (IEB) of the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN). POCTRN was created in 2007 to drive the development of appropriate point-of-care diagnostic technologies though collaborative efforts that simultaneously merge scientific and technological capabilities with clinical need.

A new research collaboration between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Louisiana State University (LSU) and University of Florida is set to launch the first evolutionary study of the unique pelvic structure and walking mechanics of blind cavefish (Cryptotora thamicola) — the only living species of fish known capable of walking on land similarly to four-limbed mammal and amphibian vertebrates, or tetrapods.

Now in its fourth year, the Music Initiative at New Jersey Institute of Technology has become a fixture on campus and this week performed their winter concert series. The music community took the gathering as an opportunity to honor and remember Kevin Milford-Sanchez, an NJIT student who passed away earlier this year. Kevin was a prolific member in both the concert and jazz bands who played multiple instruments.

NJIT freshman Fiona Wright added to her 2018 accolades, earning Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I Women's Soccer Rookie of the Year recognition as the organization released its women's soccer postseason awards.

More than 250 college students recently descended on NJIT for a 24-hour hackathon. The event challenged students to develop a software solution addressing some interesting applications of their choice, in a fast-paced, collaborative, yet competitive environment lasting a mere 24 hours.

At NJIT, Craig Gotsman is best known as dean of Ying Wu College of Computing. Within the scientific community, he is better known as the inventor of a number of cutting-edge software technologies for manipulating 3D geometric data, enabling their use in a variety of applications. Many of these technologies have been patented and commercialized, some through startup companies, which Gotsman founded — spinoffs of his academic research. In recognition of these achievements, Gotsman has been named a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for 2018.