Alumni News

The NJIT track and field closed out 2022 by opening their indoor campaign at the Wagner College Seahawk Shootout, held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex. A number of school records fell on the Highlanders' first time out and set the tone for the season as the program prepares for the rest of the schedule in 2023. HIGHLANDER RECORDS

Ioannis Koutis, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, was the recipient of the William J.

A forest’s resilience, or ability to absorb environmental disturbances, has long been thought to be a boost for its odds of survival against the looming threat of climate change. But a new study suggests that for some Western U.S. forests, it’s quite the opposite. In the journal Global Change Biology, researchers have published one of the first large-scale studies of U.S. forest land exploring the link between forest resilience and mortality.

New Jersey Institute of Technology alumna Melissa Nieves ’19 is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects New Jersey 2022 Service Award. Nieves, associate architect for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, earned her master’s in architecture with a concentration in infrastructure planning.  “Melissa has had the pleasure of becoming a leader and mentor inside and outside her workplace. She embodies what it means to be an advocate and representative for diversity and mentorship within the profession,” said the AIA.

Student entrepreneurs at NJIT's annual New Business Model Competition had one word for the experienced judges this week: plastics. It's the opposite of the revered 1967 film The Graduate, where a young Dustin Hoffman receives that single word of career advice from an accomplished friend of his parents. But it holds true, as plastics technology was a common theme to the student winners, all born decades after the movie debuted.

Immy Humes, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and first-time author, presented her book The Only Woman at the Littman Library on November 9th. The Only Woman is a collection of 100 historical photos collected by Humes showing group portraits of workers, politicians, artists, scientist, musicians… Each photo features men and only one woman among them.

NJIT Men's Cross Country placed a student-athlete on the America East All-Academic Team for the third season in a row after Matthew Morena was named to the team by the conference. 

Rima Taher, Senior University Lecturer at the Hillier College of Architecture & Design at NJIT, is working with Habitat for Humanity on a project in Passaic, NJ to rebuild Albert Lawson Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, which was deemed unsafe and forced to close in December of 2019.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is now ranked No. 9 in the country for its department of electrical and computer engineering, according to a U.S. News & World Report study of 2,165 universities worldwide.