Alumni News

  Whole Foods Market, Chipotle and Hotel Indigo – Newark’s first boutique hotel – have all served as signifiers of urban revitalization in New Jersey’s largest city.

The research that Assistant Professor of Physics Cristiano Dias is pursuing has the potential to expand our knowledge of phenomena that can affect the creation of dangerous obstructions in undersea pipelines transporting natural gas and the formation of protein-based fibers in the brain related to diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Lecturers bring diverse experiences and viewpoints to our students, faculty and the greater university community.

For Daniel A. Henderson '11 HON, whose art explores the viral allure of technology and its unintended consequences, the relocation of three of his sculptures to the ground floor of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute represents a homecoming of sorts. “Fossil Fuel” (2009), “Yellowstone” (2009) and “Premo” (2011) are now situated in an expansive new venue that allows spectators to fully appreciate the scope and grandeur of his work.

Rachel Corres recently won the School of Art + Design Medal.  Each year, the School gives the medal to a graduating senior who combines academic achievement with design excellence. Rachel, who graduated in May with a degree in Digital Design, had many accomplishments at NJIT that lead up to her winning the above medal.. For two years in a row, she won the Design Award for her major. She won first place in a student design competition sponsored by the Virtual Academic Library Environment and was awarded the 2012 Art + Design Director's Scholarship.

NJIT has a long-established reputation as a leader in researching phenomena originating on the star closest to Earth — the Sun. NJIT’s optical telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory and radio telescope array at Owens Valley, both in California, have greatly expanded our understanding of solar events that periodically impact our home planet, events such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can disrupt terrestrial communications and power infrastructure in addition to other effects.

NJIT alum Kurt Vierheilig ’99 has been named one of five new partners at DMR Architects, the fourth-largest architecture firm in New Jersey.

  Buildings and Meanings — Interpreting Cultural Expression in Architecture Distinguished Professor Zeynep Çelik is an internationally honored interpreter — of buildings. Çelik, who has a joint appointment in NJIT’s New Jersey School of Architecture and the Department of History, is an architectural historian whose career has been dedicated to interpreting the meanings buildings communicate about the cultures that create them.

College Factual, a leading source of college data analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT’s information systems program the best in the United States.