Alumni News

July 5, 2023

NJIT Awarded $10 Million for Technical Assistance at Polluted Brownfield Sites Through EPA Grant

New Jersey Institute of Technology has been awarded $10 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a $315 million initiative from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites across the country. The funding comes entirely from the historic $1.5 billion investment from Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.  Brownfields are abandoned or underutilized properties that may have hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants present, making their redevelopment complex.
June 26, 2023

Asociación Hispana de Estudiantes Universitarios de Computación despega en NJIT

La Asociación Hispana de Estudiantes Universitarios de Computación (con siglas en inglés HACCS) en la Ying Wu College of Computing de NJIT ha arrancado, y ya ha tenido una gran participación en sus reuniones inaugurales. Este club hecho para los hispanos busca satisfacer las necesidades de los estudiantes hispanos de computación y crear un grupo que les permita apoyarse mutuamente con los cursos de computación y hacer lazos que crearán un ambiente familiar en NJIT. 
Matthew Bandelt
June 26, 2023

Lab-Simulated Earthquakes Test the Mettle of 'High-Performance' Building Materials

*"Lab-Simulated Earthquakes Test the Mettle of 'High-Performance' Building Materials" is part of NJIT's 2023 Research Magazine* Despite advances in construction design and materials, a powerful 7.8 magnitude tremor on the San Andreas fault could kill a projected 1,800 people, injure an additional 50,000 and demolish 200 million square feet of commercial, public and residential buildings, according to a recent study. Even the newest, most up-to-date structures would be toppled at a rate of up to 1 in 10.
Eberhardt Hall Donor Wall Colton Society members
June 22, 2023

NJIT Earns National Distinction in Money's 2023 List of 'Best Colleges'

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has earned 4.5 out of 5 stars in a new “Best Colleges” list released by Money. Money evaluated 736 institutions from the more than 2,400 four-year public and private nonprofit colleges in the U.S. and focused on 24 factors in three main categories that surveys have shown are the most important to students: quality of education, affordability and alumni outcomes.
June 21, 2023

Accounting Expert: Executive Networks Can Lead to Earnings Manipulation

Publicly traded companies manipulate their financial documents more often when their officers and directors have well-connected social circles, Assistant Professor Ming Taylor (Ming Fang) of NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management found, earning her the Best Paper of 2022 award from British Accounting Journal.
June 21, 2023

First-Class Success: NJIT Mayor's Scholar Pursues Law Degree at University of Maryland

When Kiaja Jones ’23 arrived at NJIT from Newark’s Technology High School in 2019, she did so as part of the inaugural class of local scholars from the Mayor’s Honors Scholar Program. Now she’s leaving her home city, diploma in-hand, as a reflection of the program’s early success and will be pursuing a law degree at the University of Maryland in the fall.
June 21, 2023

Hispanic Association of Computing College Students Takes Off at NJIT

The Hispanic Association of Computing College Students (HACCS) at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing has taken off and is already seeing a great turnout in their inaugural meetings.  This Hispanic-oriented club seeks to cater to the needs of Hispanic computing students and create a group that will allow them to support each other with computing coursework and make ties that create a homelike atmosphere at NJIT.
June 20, 2023

Men's Tennis Finishes Season with Regional Ranking, Perez Ramos Ranked Regionally

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) came out with its annual regional rankings for teams and individuals earlier this month and the NJIT men's tennis team was represented on both lists. The Highlanders were ranked ninth in the northeast region after posting a 15-8 record this season. Additionally, Pablo Perez Ramos was ranked #13 in the Northeast Regional Rankings.
June 20, 2023

NJIT's Suresh Kumar, Lecturer & Entrepreneurial Director, Elected President of TiE NJ

Suresh U. Kumar, senior university lecturer and director of entrepreneurial programs in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC), has been elected by the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) as the next president of the New Jersey chapter, effective July 1, 2023. TiE is one of the world’s largest entrepreneurship support organizations with over 30,000 members in 14 countries helping 25,000 startups with an economic impact of over $1 trillion, according to KPMG.
June 20, 2023

Researchers Develop Novel System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning To Improve Control Of Lower Limb

A team of researchers has developed a new method for controlling lower limb exoskeletons using deep reinforcement learning. The method, described in a study published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, enables more robust and natural walking control for users of lower limb exoskeletons. 
June 19, 2023

How Video Games, a Support System and Becoming a Leader at NJIT Helped Me Manage My Mental Health

Growing up, I was very quiet, shy and introverted. As I started to discover myself in my teenage years, I began coming out of the closet at age 12. Because of this, I felt isolated at the time and so I found solace in video games and online forums and communities. I have always struggled with my mental health and it's taken me many years and a lot of work to be able to talk about it so openly. I used to try to hide it or make light of it, but it's been very painful and tough.
June 14, 2023

Computational Advance Will Help Researchers Model Climate With Higher Fidelity

Increased computational power has dramatically improved climate modeling over the past several years, allowing scientists to better forecast long term climate evolution. Despite computers becoming faster and more efficient, cloud modeling was still a hazy prospect until a recent algorithmic improvement.
June 12, 2023

Sun's Coldest Region Stores Secret to Heating Million-Degree Corona, Study Finds

With data from Big Bear Solar Observatory’s Goode Solar Telescope, researchers discover intense wave energy in the coldest region on the Sun, the sunspot umbra, which is driving puzzling temperatures in the star’s upper atmosphere.     Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun’s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists — how are temperatures in the star’s upper atmosphere, or corona, hundreds of times hotter than temperatures at the Sun’s visible surface?
June 7, 2023

Amid the Wildfire Haze, NJIT Researcher Alexei Khalizov Explains What's in the Air

The soot permeating the air in New Jersey and New York this month — courtesy of massive wildfires in Canada — is exactly what a New Jersey Institute of Technology professor is studying to determine its impact on climate change.
June 7, 2023

Uncharted Territory: NJIT Ecologist Investigates Forest Fate Amid Climate Change, Wildfire

Nearly a decade ago, a bark beetle infestation tore through southeast Wyoming's Snowy Range, transforming lush landscape of Medicine Bow National Forest into a tinderbox of dead lodgepole pine. In Sept. 2020 it ignited — what became known as the Mullen Fire raged beyond the parkland across 176,000 acres over the next month, fueled by the beetle-killed trees and unusually dry conditions. Xiaonan Tai, assistant professor of biological sciences and director of NJIT’s Ecohydrology Lab, is investigating the fate of the national forest.
June 6, 2023

National Academy of Construction Elects NJIT's Andrew Christ Amid Campus Transformation

Andrew Christ, senior vice president for real estate development and capital operations at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Construction. The academy recognizes exceptional leaders from across the construction industry — including construction managers, contractors, designers, educators and financial managers — who advance the industry through innovation and lasting improvements.
June 5, 2023

Men's Lacrosse's Liam Brown Selected As 2023 America East Man of the Year Finalist

NJIT men's lacrosse senior Liam Brown has been named one of three finalists for the America East Conference's 2022-23 Man of the Year award, the league announced Thursday morning. 
June 2, 2023

Zhenlu Qin - ECE PhD Student of the Month - June 2023

Zhenlu Qin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His advisor is Prof. Qing Liu of the HPC Lab. His research interests are in HPC computing, data reduction and data compression.
May 31, 2023

NJIT Hires a Principal Deputy for Finance

New Jersey Institute of Technology has hired Lynn Azarchi, who most recently directed the Office of Management and Budget in New Jersey’s Department of the Treasury, to be the principal deputy of Catherine Z. Brennan, the university’s senior vice president and chief financial officer.
May 30, 2023

Engineer from India Found a Home at NJIT, Earning a Master's and Landing a Job in NJ

Anjali Khushalani worked in her native India as a project manager and process manager before arriving at New Jersey Institute of Technology last fall to pursue a master’s in engineering management.

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