Alumni News

The New Jersey Alliance for Action recently held its 44th annual Eagle Awards Celebration, which recognizes individuals and firms for their dedication and contribution towards improving the State of New Jersey’s economy.  Held at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, six awards were handed out to representatives from business, education, engineering and government.

“Of course, NJIT will always have a special place in my heart as the institution that provided the foundation that continues to inspire me today,” noted James Stamatis ’85, chief executive officer of Louis Berger, a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, N.J.

NJIT has been ranked among only four universities in New Jersey to make U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 Best Global Universities list, joining Princeton, Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark Universities.

On a Wednesday afternoon, in a handful of rooms along the second-floor corridor of Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT students and alumni networked, albeit not in person. The five participating alumni appeared on screen via Webex from the West Coast for the college’s Virtual Silicon Valley Networking event, interacting with and answering questions from small groups of students that rotated from room to room every 15 minutes.

The Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will be hosting a workshop for middle and high school teachers and STEM curriculum specialists on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m in Central King Building Room 116 and NJIT Makerspace. The workshop will focus on teaching 3D engineering principles applied to a rotational equilibrium problem and classroom applications of 3D printing and laser cutting. The workshop includes continental breakfast and lunch, and easy on-campus parking is available.

Three NJIT women's soccer players were selected to the 2018 ASUN All-Conference team, headed by Freshman of the Year Fiona Wright and Coach of the Year Ally Nick, the league office announced at the women's soccer awards banquet on the campus of NJIT Thursday evening. In addition to Nick and Wright, senior midfielder Arianna Gerber was selected to the 11-person first-team, which included Wright.  Sophomore defender Nicole Loehle was named to the second-team while Wright was selected to the All-Freshman team.

Research by NJIT’s Michel Boufadel on the mechanics of oil dispersion following a spill was recently highlighted by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), a consortium that investigates the impacts of oil, dispersed oil and dispersants on the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico and coastal States. GoMRI aims to better elucidate the dynamics of spill events, as well as their environmental impacts and public health implications, and to develop oil and gas detection, characterization and remediation technologies in order to improve spill mitigation strategies.

Every year, we go through the ritual of rounding up some of the newest members of our student body: astute first-year students, who are critical thinkers in pursuit of a dynamic intellectual environment and insightful instruction. And every year, even as the average overall SAT score of our incoming class (1287) and undergraduate enrollment (1,296 freshmen selected out of 8,126 applications) continue to soar, we marvel at all the ways these gung-ho boundary-pushers descend on campus with a clear vision for their future, ready to take ownership of their education.

Salesforce recently hosted its 15th annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 24-28, 2018, aimed to provide students, business leaders and technology experts with an opportunity to come together and educate themselves through many exciting sessions, keynotes and expo centers. What started with 1,300 attendees at the first Dreamforce in 2003 now had over 160,000 attendees participating all-around San Francisco.