Alumni News

Ivan Mitevski is Newark College of Engineering's Outstanding Engineer

When Mark Quiles, a Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) finance and marketing major, graduates this December, he will continue full time on an entrepreneurial path that has already won him accolades. In 2016, Quiles launched League of Lifeguards, a company dedicated to improving water safety by recruiting and certifying lifeguards and matching them with jobs at pools, parties and other places and events involving swimming. He says League of Lifeguards has been able to protect more than 10,000 lives to date.

Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the race toward the next era of patient care — genomic medicine — was on.  However, advances in being able to treat patients based on their genetic information have also reshaped the training needed for nearly three million nurses in the U.S., who now require deeper working knowledge of cardiovascular genetics and cutting-edge diagnostic technology, in addition to the traditional medical skills they routinely apply on the hospital floor.

NJIT women's tennis players Amanda Helminsky and Mayar Eltony were named to the 2018 ASUN Second-Team All-Conference the league office announced on the eve of the ASUN Women's Tennis Tournament. Eltony, a 2017 ASUN All-Freshmen Team and first-team honoree, tabs second-team honors at No. 2 singles while Helminsky posts her first postseason award at No. 5 singles. To read the full story, click on "Learn More" below.

This month, the work of NJIT’s top student researchers was put on display at the 2018 Knox Student Research Showcase, “A Glimpse Into the Future”.  The showcase, which annually honors outstanding research done at NJIT by its graduate and undergraduate students, awarded Najmaddin Akhundov first place among this year’s graduate researchers for developing a computational model to track and control invasive species that threaten the environment.

A recent report from Forbes ranks NJIT #1 nationally for colleges with the highest percentage of students from the bottom fifth of the income distribution who end up in the top fifth. The study is based on an analysis by The Equality of Opportunity Project which compares the financial status of a student’s family before they enter college and the graduate’s earnings after college.

Success in a Snapshot: Jaasrini Vellore*, a biomedical engineering student who specializes in biomaterials, was honored at the 2018 NCE Salute to Excellence as the Madame Mau Outstanding Female Engineering Student. Although she’s a junior, Vellore’s accomplishments – from a 3.96 GPA, to a key role mentoring freshmen in her department, to research on a longstanding problem with hearing aids, to hospital internships – wowed the committee nonetheless. What also impressed them were qualities that can’t be quantified – her compassion and her ability to quietly lead.

Dylan Renaud, an Albert Dorman Honors College senior studying applied physics and math, won $1,000 at a business plan competition hosted April 12 by the College of Business and Public Management at Kean University. Renaud’s business concept, one of 120 submitted by student entrepreneurship teams from NJIT, Kean University, Wenzhou University (China) and DECA high schools, is a novel enterprise software system

To examine the differential effects of online group influence on digital product consumption, Martin Tuchman School of Management Associate Professor Ellen Thomas turned to online music listening, with a distinction between mainstream and niche music. Why music?