Alumni News

October 23, 2018

Mini MBA Partnership Program Boosts Entrepreneurship

Eighty-two percent of participating businesses reported profitability, while overall they secured $776 million in government, institutional and corporate contracting. These are just two of the noteworthy results* of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation’s (CEDC) Mini MBA Program.
October 22, 2018

NJIT Men's Basketball Season Tickets on Sale for 2018-19 Home Games

The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Department of Athletics has announced it's men's basketball ticket packages for the 2018-19 season. All home games will be played at NJIT's new home, the Wellness and Events Center (WEC).
NJIT Women's Soccer Huddle
October 22, 2018

NJIT Women's Soccer Ranked No. 10 in South Region Poll

The historic NJIT women's soccer season continues as the Highlanders receive the programs first-ever, ranking (No. 10) in the latest United Soccer Coaches South Region. NJIT (11-4-1) is coming off a 2-1 victory over Kennesaw State (ranked No. 8 in the South Poll), heading into the final weekend of the regular season with a potential first-round bye into the 2018 ASUN Conference Women's Soccer Championship.
Shravanthi Budhi
October 22, 2018

Figuring Out My Future: My Day at Siemens Financial Services

By Shravanthi Budhi As a college student, it’s challenging to juggle the daily responsibilities of classes, jobs and extracurricular activities, not to mention the added pressure of answering the question every college student dreads, “What do you want to do for the rest of your life?”
October 21, 2018

An NJIT Vision Therapy Team Wins "Most Innovative" in Worldwide VR Competition

An NJIT-led team of engineers, game designers, artists and clinicians won two major international awards for its vision therapy platform, including “most innovative breakthrough,” at the 2018 Augmented World Expo Europe (AWE EU), the leading industry conference for augmented reality technology.
October 18, 2018

From Euthanasia to Gene Editing: A Q&A With Bioethics Expert Arthur Caplan

In the 1990s, Jack Kevorkian controversially brought the issue of physician-assisted dying to the forefront of a conversation at the crossroads of medicine, technology, law and morality — known as bioethics. 
March 12, 2019

NJIT Alumna Named to Top 20 Under 40 and Top 40 Under 40

Áine O’Dwyer, PE, CEO of Enovate Engineering, LLC, was named to the Engineering News Record (ENR) National Top 20 Under 40 for 2018. Honored earlier in the year with the regional Top Young Professionals award, O’Dwyer was chosen from a pool of more than 400 regional candidates from which 20 winners were chosen.
Gale Tenen Spak
October 17, 2018

Leading Women Entrepreneurs Honors Gale Tenen Spak

Gale Tenen Spak, associate vice president of Continuing and Distance Education at NJIT, has been named one of the Top 25 Leading Women Intraprenuers by Leading Women Entrepreneurs and its presenting sponsor. Spak and the other honorees were feted at a special awards reception and ceremony on Oct. 15.
October 17, 2018

NJIT and Raritan Valley Community College to Host Construction & Utilities Talent Network Summit

Industry professionals will come together to speak on women in construction and utilities and workforce development aimed at the youth demographic.
October 17, 2018

Newark Debuts LinkNWK, Joins NYC and London with Connected Kiosks

Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka, Newark Community Economic Development Corporation, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Intersection, the leading smart cities technology and media company, today officially launched LinkNWK (pronounced “Link Newark”), activating Newark’s first Link kiosks that deliver super fast, secure Wi-Fi and other services at no cost to taxpayers or users.
Attendees at the MetroLab Network 2018 Annual Summit
October 16, 2018

MetroLab Network Comes to the WEC

Municipal leaders, academic presenters, as well as chief technology, information and analytics officers from across the country gathered at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center Oct. 15 and 16 for the MetroLab Network 2018 Annual Summit. The conference centered on leveraging city-university partnerships to deliver technology, data and analytics to local government and drive civic innovation.
October 16, 2018

Men's Soccer Registers First ASUN Win of Season; Blanks Stetson, 2-0

NJIT registered its first ASUN Conference win of the season with a 2-0 shutout victory over visiting Stetson Saturday evening in league action at Kean University East Campus Facility. NJIT moves to 1-3-0 in the ASUN, 6-7 overall, snapping a six-match skid, while Stetson stands at 0-2-1 in the ASUN, 5-7-1 overall. The Highlanders scored both goals in the second half to secure the 2-0 victory. Redshirt sophomore Rene White scored his team-leading ninth goal of the season and ranks tied for first in the ASUN in total goals.
October 16, 2018

Wright Nets Pair of Goals in Win Over Kennesaw State; Highlanders Move Into First Place in ASUN

Freshman Fiona Wright netted a pair of goals in the Highlanders' 2-1 victory over visiting Kennesaw State in ASUN Conference action at Kean University East Campus Facility. NJIT, winners of its last five-out-of-six contests, improves to 5-2 in the ASUN, 11-4-1 overall while the Owls move to 5-2 in the league, 12-4-1 overall. With the win, the Highlanders which clinched its first-ever postseason appearance in the ASUN Conference, moved into the top spot in the ASUN (15 points) after tallying three points in the win over the Owls.
October 17, 2018

NJIT's Rajesh Davé is Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering

Rajesh Davé, a problem-driven inventor whose groundbreaking methods for re-engineering tiny particles have fueled advances in such diverse areas as weapons safety and drug delivery systems, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Dale Gary Excellence in Research
October 12, 2018

Distinguished Professor of Physics Awarded for Research on Solar Flares
October 12, 2018

Started From The Bottom, Now She's Here: An Alumna's Journey to CEO

DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL​ Toni Vasquez-Shawan ’10 was in the sixth grade when she started her architecture career as a telephone receptionist at T.I. Vasquez Architects & Planners, Inc. (TVAP), a Manila-based architecture firm founded in 1993 by her father Topy Vasquez. The design bug bit her while accompanying Topy on a site visit. After graduating from the University of Santo Tomas in 2007 with a B.S. in architecture, she acquired a full-time position at TVAP, working under the supervision of a project architect.
October 11, 2018

The MIXRLab is Pushing the Boundaries of Game Design and Simulation

The MIXRLab in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) has officially opened.
Ericsson North America Vice President Sree Koratala’s keynote speech addressed how 5G wireless networks and Edge Cloud evolution drive industrial innovation.
October 9, 2018

Sarnoff Symposium Comes to NJIT

Now in its 39th year, the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium is the premier forum in telecom and related topics for researchers, engineers and business executives in the Northeast.   “It has a long history as a place where industry leaders can share their insights with academia on state-of-the-art research, where the industry is going and the challenges they face,” said Grace (Guiling) Wang, co-chair of this year’s symposium and professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC).
October 9, 2018

TEDxNJIT Event on November 8

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host a TEDxNJIT event Nov. 8, 2018 in the Jim Wise Theatre on the NJIT campus and via an accompanying live simulcast available to viewers worldwide. The independently organized event, licensed by TED, is themed “ReFraming” and will feature leaders from business, academia and the arts addressing a range of topics.
October 8, 2018

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: City Resilience

In the face of both natural and man-made threat to city infrastructure, greater pushes have been made toward the planning and design of “resilient cities” — cities positioned to protect and enhance urban life through development of components necessary to respond to terrorism, earthquakes, coastal flooding, solar flares, as well as infrastructure adoption of sustainable energy.

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