Alumni News

Among 13 children in a struggling Ivory Coast family, it would have been understandable if Vincent Oria went into business, apprenticed to a tradesman, or dreamed of the soccer pitch. Instead, long before becoming chairman of NJIT's Department of Computer Science, he followed his schoolteacher father into the world of academics, concentrating on physics as he loved the applied mathematics of science.

NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented changes to improve candidate and employer efficiency and experience.

A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast to the annual NJIT ACM chapter's HackNJIT, which skews to the software side. Registration is here.

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) has been honored as a “Leader in Digital Technology” by NJBIZ, a leading business journal in New Jersey, for its role in advances in health information technology (HealthIT) used throughout the state. NJII, an NJIT corporation, is part of the 2023 cohort of awardees in which the publication is recognizing the most impactful companies and individuals “making a difference in the digital space.”

Freshman Alejandra Zuniga has been selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week for the fourth time this season and league office announced on Monday. Zuniga, who picked up her second consecutive Rookie of the Week honor, averaged 22.0ppg, 4.5rpg and 4.5apg in a 1-1 week for the Highlanders.

The J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) Gallery has opened “Troy West: The Architecture and Art of Belonging,” an exhibition that showcases the drawings, sculptures and architectural projects of the late Troy West, RA. Born in Pittsburgh, West began practicing architecture and art in the late 1950’s, with a specialty in community design advocacy. He moved to Newark, New Jersey in 1973 to become one of the founding faculty at the NJIT School of Architecture. 

NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which four student-led proposals were presented to renovate the space near the Summit Street parking garage.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab, ADHC, the Real Estate Development and Capital Operations (REDCO) and the Office of Sustainability to team up together to make NJIT’s campus into a more sustainable community.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) was recognized by the 117th United States Congress for its role in providing a mobile medical care unit (M2CU) to aid in COVID-19 vaccination and testing.

Ecevit Bilgili, a professor of chemical and materials engineering who boosts the therapeutic efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs through nanoengineering, while also lowering the cost to design and manufacture them, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In his Particle Engineering and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Laboratory, Bilgili and his team develop, for example, nanoparticle formulations and processes that enable the immediate release of poorly water-soluble drugs and enhance the performance of long-acting injectable drugs.