Alumni News

January 30, 2024

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and universities through the unique lens of Spanish-speaking students on today's campuses. Each episode offers an intimate view of college life, allowing the entire Spanish-speaking population worldwide a chance to explore colleges.
January 29, 2024

Men's Volleyball Rallies Back in Five-Set Victory, Gregg and Negri Share Match-High Honors

NJIT's Josh Gregg and Alessandro Negri shared match-high honors with 19 kills as the Highlanders rallied back in a five-set 3-2 victory over Queens (NC) Saturday evening on the campus of Saint Francis U.
January 27, 2024

NJIT Erases 22-Point Halftime Deficit to Earn First America East Win at UMBC

For the second time this season, veteran big man Kjell de Graaf put back an NJIT miss in the final minute of play to put the Highlanders in front and give them a victory, this time against host UMBC in America East Conference action on Saturday evening at the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena.
January 29, 2024

Architect LoriAnne Jones Shares Her Journey from NJIT to DIGroup Architecture

LoriAnne Jones ’06 developed her architecture interest very early on, as she accompanied her father to work sites. Later, she would find out that her grandmother practiced architecture back in her parents’ home country, Guyana. She was happy to realize that her grandmother was an architect, and was equally proud that she developed interest in architecture without knowing that part of the family story. 
January 26, 2024

NJIT's Simulated Power Grid Helps Engineers Plan for Car Chargers and Wind Farms

Increases in electric car sales and offshore wind farm construction are poised to both tax and bolster the American power transmission grid, so researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology are building a grid simulator to help industry predict the effects and plan accordingly.
January 25, 2024

ROI-NJ Recognizes 17 NJIT Highlanders in its 2024 Power Lists

Seventeen people associated with New Jersey Institute of Technology made ROI-NJ’s annual lists of influential power brokers in New Jersey, with three cracking the top Super 60 Power List.  The Super 60 honorees were President Teik C. Lim, Luiz De La Hoz, a member of NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council, and Michele Siekerka, a member of the Board of Directors of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute.
January 24, 2024

Remarkable Sibling Duo Volunteer at Saint Michael's While Attending NJIT

This story is republished with permission from Saint Michael's Medical Center By the time she was in seventh grade, Pooja Datir’s teachers ran out of grade-level material to give her. Her teachers suggested she start taking college courses. Her brother Rohit maxed out in fifth grade and also started taking college courses.
January 25, 2024

Researchers Establish Brain Pathway Linking Motivation, Addiction and Disease

Over 86 billion neurons are in the human brain, roughly 450,000 of which generate dopamine — a powerful neurotransmitter that drives motivated behavior, learning and habit formation. Now, researchers say one brain region, the cerebellum, may hold more influence over these dopamine neurons than realized.
January 11, 2024

Profesores y estudiantes de arquitectura de NJIT colaboran en la construcción de Hope Village II

El Hillier College of Architecture and Design (con siglas en inglés HCAD) del New Jersey Institute of Technology acompañó al alcalde Ras J. Baraka y al director de la Oficina de Servicios para Personas sin Hogar de la Alcaldía, Luis Ulerio, durante la inauguración de la segunda versión de Hope Village, “Come As You Are” Bridge Housing Community, ubicado sobre la avenida Elizabeth.
January 23, 2024

Architecture Alum Wins 2023 Award of Excellence from AIA

4/4 Architecture was recognized with an Award of Excellence for the renovations of Hellertown Lofts at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Eastern Pennsylvania Design Awards on Thursday, December 7 at the Allentown Art Museum.
January 20, 2024

Men's Swimming and Diving Earns 195-105 Senior Day Victory Over Rider

The NJIT men's swimming and diving team closed out its 2023-24 home schedule and honored its seniors with a 195-105 victory over the Rider Broncs Saturday afternoon at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center Natatorium.
January 23, 2024

NJIT Celebrates the Official Naming of the Tarik Rodgers '96 Practice Court

As part of NJIT's men's volleyball alumni weekend, NJIT officially named the practice court inside the Joel & Diane Bloom Wellness and Event Center, the Tarik Rodgers '96 Practice Court on Sunday, January 21, 2024 in front of family, friends and alumni.
January 22, 2024

Undergraduate Computing Student Presents Paper as Lead Author at ACM CKIM 2023

Vaisnavi Nemala, a senior data science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Albert Dorman Honor’s College, presented a paper on which she served as lead author at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM) 2023 in Birmingham, England.
January 19, 2024

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever participation: 3,300 students and alumni and 240 companies packed into the WEC and Naimoli Center. The spring fair, now scheduled for March 4 from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., is shaping up to be another packed house.
January 19, 2024

Middle and High School Students Compete in Regional Science Olympiad at NJIT

Dozens of teams of middle and high school students came to New Jersey Institute of Technology last week for a regional round of the annual New Jersey Science Olympiad hands-on learning competition. NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, along with the university’s Newark College of Engineering, served as the event hosts for about 700 academically excited children. They competed in events spanning topics such as anatomy, ecology, engineering and technical writing.
January 18, 2024

Hrishi Sidhartha is 'Grinding Gears' in a Job Most Gamers Dream About

Hrishi Sidhartha ’15, has turned an elective into a career to envy. As a game designer with Grinding Gear Games, he spends his day shaping Path of Exile 2, one of the most anticipated action role-playing games on the market. He had to relocate to the other side of the world — or at least down under — to join the Auckland, New Zealand-based company, but making necessary life adjustments was literally in the name of the game when offered a once-in-lifetime opportunity.
January 16, 2024

El viaje de un ingeniero, de ser estudiante en NJIT hasta ser presidente de la Junta de Supervisores

Han pasado cerca de 50 años desde que Bob Medina ‘75 se graduó como ingeniero en NJIT, y cuando recuerda su trayectoria, solo tiene palabras de gratitud por cómo NJIT le brindó las herramientas para sobresalir. De hecho, todavía conserva la regla de cálculo que usaba en clase, en una época en la cual no se permitían las calculadoras, y ni siquiera existían las computadoras portátiles.
January 14, 2024

Record Women's 4x200 Leads Way For Track and Field At Spartan Invite

Led by an outstanding performance from the Women's 4x200 Relay, the NJIT men's and women's track & field programs kicked off 2024 and restarted their indoor season with an excellent showing during St. Thomas Aquinas' Spartan Invitational Friday evening at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex.
January 13, 2024

Negri Leads NJIT with Match-Best 26 Kills in Highlanders Thrilling 3-2 Win Over Purdue Fort Wayne

Despite being down 2-0, NJIT rallied back to earn a thrilling 3-2 five set home victory over visiting Purdue Fort Wayne behind a match-best 26 kills from junior Alessandro Negri in men's volleyball non-conference action inside the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center. NJIT picks up its second straight win of the season, moving to 2-3 on the young season, while Purdue Fort Wayne suffers its first loss of the season, falling to 3-1.
January 18, 2024

Social Media Star, Milad Mirg, Explains His NJIT Connections and Work Ethic

Milad Mirghahari, a social media influencer known publicly as Milad Mirg, has more than six million followers each on TikTok and YouTube and is a first-generation NJIT student, Albert Dorman Honors College member and computer science major.

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