Alumni News

NJIT Public Safety Swearing-In and Awards Ceremony Highlights Department's Community Engagement

A new crop of police officers have officially been sworn into the NJIT police force, which included the promotion of Kevin Kesselman to Chief of Police. Kesselman, who has been a member of the NJIT force since 2001 starting as a public safety officer, welcomed a packed house that included faculty, staff, students, families and members of neighboring police departments showing support in NJIT’s Ballroom.

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Martin Tuchman School of Management Sharpens Tech MBA Degree

Current and future MBA students are in for good news at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, with the degree requirements being shortened from 48 credits to 36, and with an even stronger emphasis on their forward-looking, technology-focused curriculum. The changes streamline the program into the nationwide trend of shorter, more affordable paths to graduation, while doubling down on the uniqueness of being part of a public polytechnic institution.

Grant Billmeier Introductory Press Conference Set for April 20 at Noon

The NJIT Department of Athletics has announced it will officially introduce new men's basketball head coach Grant Billmeier to the media and Highlander Nation on Thursday, April 20, at noon.

Two NJIT Students Win Prestigious Fellowships to Grow in their Fields of Study

Two NJIT undergraduates won prestigious fellowships. Olivia Kolakowski ’24 was awarded the Brooke Owens Fellowship, and Milan Patel ’23 has been selected as an Amgen Scholar at Columbia University. The Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women and other gender minorities who, like Dawn Brooke Owens (1980-2016), aspire to explore the sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow people here on planet Earth.

NJIT Prof. Wins NSF CAREER Award to Study Quantum Material for Next-Gen Electronics

NJIT Assistant Professor of Physics Junjie Yang has won a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER Award to explore the unusual properties of quantum materials that hold the potential to propel the next generation of smaller, more energy-efficient electronic devices. The CAREER Award is among NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, and lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Approximately 500 awards are issued each year nationally.

NJIT Names Grant Billmeier as Head Coach of Men's Basketball

New Jersey Institute of Technology has named Grant Billmeier as its new men's basketball head coach, Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan announced.

4 Leaders from NJIT Named Higher Ed Influencers by ROI-NJ

The business publication ROI-NJ recognized four leaders at New Jersey Institute of Technology in its annual lists of higher education influencers, including President Teik C. Lim. Lim made a list of presidents of New Jersey universities and colleges and the others — Martin Tuchman School of Management Dean Oya Tukel, Albert Dorman Honors College Dean Louis Hamilton and Leir Research Institute for Business, Technology and Society Director Michael Ehrlich — made a list of deans, directors and officials.

NJIT Ranked 14th Nationwide for Online Masters in Computer Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked 14th nationwide for its online master's degrees in computer science, according to the latest research from UniversityHQ.org. "While good computer science careers are available for bachelor’s degree holders looking to become computer science professionals, computer science graduate degrees open up an even stronger career path," the higher education company stated.

Rami Rashid - ECE PhD Student of the Month - April 2023

Rami Rashid is a Ph.D. candidate in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is working under the advisement of Professor Abdi. He also earned his master's from ECE-NJIT in 2020, in which he received the 2020 ECE Top Performers Fellowship.

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Men's Tennis Improves to 13-4 with 4-1 Win Over Army

The NJIT men's tennis team improved to 13-4 this season with a 4-1 victory over Army West Point on Sunday. "We were very happy to pull off the victory today," said Head Coach Marco Matteucci." The Black Knights took two of three doubles matches to go ahead 1-0, but NJIT rallied in singles play and won all four completed matches to earn the victory.

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Jared Donnelly's Walk Off Home Run Leads NJIT to 7-6 Win, Series Sweep

Jared Donnelly and the NJIT baseball team closed this weekend's three-game America East series vs. UAlbany just as they started it, with a walk-off victory over the Great Danes at Jim Hynes Stadium.

A Bridge to Equity Between Newark's South Ward and Liberty International

Darius Sollohub, professor and interim director of the New Jersey School of Architecture, Hillier College and Colette Santasieri, executive director of the Center for Community Systems, have been unwavering in their partnership to bring the full benefit of Newark’s Liberty International Airport to the city of Newark, in particular to the adjacent South Ward neighborhood.

Speaking of Careers: NYC Metro Alumni Club Welcomes Current Students and Recent Graduates

Emerging corporate partner Bank of America (BOA) hosted the Alumni Association of NJIT’s “Speaking of Careers” event at the company’s midtown Manhattan headquarters on March 28 for an audience of current students and recent graduates. The evening featured a panel of distinguished alumni who shared personal stories of their individual journeys from NJIT’s classrooms to the boardrooms of some of the country’s most influential companies.

Undergrads Compete in NJIT's First Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Competition

Undergraduates Nora Mahgoub ’25 and Victoria Pirog ’25 are already solving complex ethical dilemmas of today’s engineering world, and doing so on a grand stage, as the first NJIT students to compete at Lockheed Martin’s annual Ethics in Engineering Competition. Mahgoub and Pirog recently joined other two-student teams from more than 70 U.S. colleges and universities at Lockheed Martin’s fifth annual case competition, held at its Center for Leadership Excellence in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 27 through March 1.

NJIT Mathematics Professor Unveils Modeling Projections for MLB's 2023 Season

As baseball fans gear up for MLB’s Opening Day and the marathon of another 162-game season, new modeling predictions of NJIT mathematics professor Bruce Bukiet have already divined the winners and losers when the dust settles on the final day of the 2023 season in October. America’s pastime has always been a game obsessed with numbers, and Bukiet, an associate dean at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, is no different — he has been his applying statistical models to forecast the MLB’s league standings with commendable accuracy for 25 years.

Arthur Hinds, CompSci Alum, Protects TD Bank Customers from Digital Thieves

When someone's job is to protect more than a trillion dollars, you take their advice on cybersecurity seriously — so we should listen to Arthur Hinds '17, TD Bank Group's global head of threat defense operations, who approaches his job by remembering basic lessons learned at NJIT and staying on top of the latest cybersecurity automation tools.

NJIT Ranks No. 1 in The New York Times College Ranking Tool

A new online tool from The New York Times ranks New Jersey Institute of Technology No. 1 among all public universities nationally when you prioritize high alumni earnings, economic mobility and academic profile.

Elementary STEM Event Teaches Children About Microcontrollers and More

Teams of third, fourth and fifth-graders at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Elementary STEM Challenge went high-tech this year, aiming to solve environmental problems in their schools by using the capabilities of Micro Bit microcontrollers. The competition is in its third year, with Randolph's Fernbrook School Green Team taking home first place for their invention that detects hallway noise and alerts the principal's office when students distract their classmates by talking too loudly.

Ian Horstkamp-Vinekar Earns Spot On Inaugural CSC Men's Swimming & Diving Academic All-America Team

Following his selection to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Men's Swimming & Diving Academic All-District team, junior Ian Horstkamp-Vinekar has been named to one of the inaugural CSC Men's Swimming & Diving Academic All-America® teams, the organization announced Tuesday afternoon.

NJII Healthcare Division Achieves Center Medicaid Enterprise System Certification for NJHIN

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a leading provider of innovative and transformative services across the state, announced today that the New Jersey Department of Human Services (NJDHS) and New Jersey Health Information Network (NJHIN) have been granted Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) certification. A long-standing facilitator of many statewide healthcare initiatives, NJDHS has been a key partner with NJHIN in driving interoperability across New Jersey and ensuring healthy outcomes for more than 2.2 million Medicaid beneficiaries.

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