Alumni News

Starting your first year at college can be a whirlwind of emotions.  No matter if you’re coming from a different country or if you’re just coming from down the block, college life is bound to be a change in your life. A full class load, joining clubs and organizations and making new friends can seem like a lot in the first week. But sit back and take a deep breath - NJIT has got your back! Here are some first week events to get you adjusted to your new life at NJIT:  

Bipin Rajendran, an engineer who develops computing systems that aim to match the efficiency seen in nature by studying the organizational principles of the brain, has been elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators “who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society,” according to the Academy. They have also proved successful in patenting, licensing and commercializing their inventions.

Crystal Smith has been appointed director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), effective July 1, 2019. Smith is responsible for EOP’s overall administration and supervision, which involves collaborating and coordinating with many universitywide departments and offices. She also sees to programs under the auspices of EOP, including the Black Engineering Technology Alumni Association, the Minority Engineering Program and the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and stop signs with roundabouts, they wanted to be prepared for the questions that would come.

“The Largest Voice Tech Event of the Year.” That was the official event billing that stirred a groundswell of attention from technology leaders and innovators, global brands and thousands more at the 2019 VOICE Summit held July 22-25 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). 

A campus-based health care startup with a device that employs virtual reality gaming to correct a vision dysfunction – technology designed and developed by a professor and a team of students, now alumni, in a biomedical engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) – has received a $500,000 commitment from Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC, an affiliate of New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF).

Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited.

The underground culture of hardcore drug abuse is dynamic and evolves rapidly. Street names for drugs, hot spots where users go for their fix, and new, dangerous strains laced with different substances change frequently and regularly.  For nonprofits aiming to help users overcome their addiction, getting real-time, actionable information on this fast-changing landscape can be difficult. 

Newark, NJ -- From July 22 - 25, 2019, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome VOICE Summit 2019 — “the world’s largest voice tech conference.”  VOICE will be held for the second consecutive year at NJIT, drawing a roster of internationally recognized brands from around the world and nearly 5,000 attendees over the course of the four-day event interested in “reimagining how we interact with technology through voice.”