Alumni News

August 11, 2022

Trevino Welcomes Four Newcomers to 2022 Women's Volleyball Roster

The NJIT women's volleyball team hit the court for its first day of practice on Thursday and fourth-year Head Coach Pedro Trevino officially welcomed four new faces to the squad.

August 10, 2022

Men's Soccer Welcomes 13 Recruits as Part of 2022 Incoming Class

Seventh-year head coach Fernando Barboto announced that 13 players will be joining the NJIT men's soccer program as part of the 2022 incoming class. The incoming class will be joining a Highlander squad that advanced to the America East Conference Men's Soccer Tournament semifinals in back-to-back seasons. Listed below is the full 2022 men's soccer recruiting class along with a short biography on each player:

August 15, 2022

Computing Alumna from Vietnam, Now at Google, Credits Perseverance

NJIT computer science alumna Hang Nguyen, the first in her family to attend college, started her full-time career as a Google software engineer based on her ability to quickly absorb new skills. Nguyen grew up in central Vietnam, learned English and the outdated Pascal programming language in a school for gifted children, and ultimately chose to pursue her dream of not only obtaining a college degree but doing so in the United States.

August 10, 2022

Highlander Foundry Showcase Gives Students Opportunity to Present their Startups

After concluding their eight-week summer program, NJIT students presented their startups, giving them an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship and business creation. The Highlander Foundry program is a summer startup incubator that helps NJIT students and alumni grow with the same techniques and strategies that launched many of the top startups today.

Akhyurna Swain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2022

Akhyurna Swain is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently, she works in the Sensor Research laboratory under the advisory of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research area focuses on the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks and smart sensors for online health monitoring, fault detection, and predictive maintenance of the power system.

Computing Student Makes Fake Tweets Detector, Satire Checker is Next

We've all wished that some people on social media would use a fake news detector before sharing, and now an NJIT computer science student has built one that works pretty well. Natalia Smith, a junior from Newark, said her fake news detector application has performed with up to 90 percent accuracy in evaluating COVID-related tweets for truthfulness.

NJIT Police Department Pledges to Advance Women in Policing

On August 3, 2022, the NJIT Police Department signed on to the 30x30 Pledge – a series of low- and no-cost actions policing agencies can take to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement. The activities help policing agencies assess the current state of a department with regard to gender equity, identify factors that may be driving any disparities and develop and implement strategies and solutions to eliminate barriers and advance women in policing.

As CEO of Construction Management Firm, NJIT Alum Finds Strength in Diversity

When it comes to diversity, Ken Colao leads by example. More than a third of the 90 staffers — 38% — at his construction management company, CNY Group, is Black, Indigenous or other people of color (BIPOC). Also, in an industry not known for gender balance, women comprise nearly a third of the staff and have earned 62% of the promotions in the past three years.

Women's Basketball Gives Back to the Community

The NJIT women's basketball team took time from its summer workout schedule to give back to the community teaming up with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) in Hillside, NJ. Members of the women's basketball team and coaching staff offered their assistance inside the CFBNJ warehouse preparing meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) for those in need.

NJIT Police Lead 4th Annual Navy Seal Hudson River Swim

A cadre of NJIT police officers led hundreds of Navy SEALs, fellow veterans and military supporters in the pre-swim run from Liberty State Park Sept. 11 Monument to the Hudson. The attendees then swam across the Hudson and ran to their final stop at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan as part of the charitable event.

Smart Microrobots Learn How to Swim and Navigate with Artificial Intelligence

Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability.

From Disease Detection to Criminal Forensics, Student Inventions Energize NJIT's Summer Campus

A rapid point-of-care device with a unique electrode structure designed to identify toxin molecules in human fluids was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT.

Men's Basketball Offers Helping Hands to Local Newark Community

The NJIT men's basketball team took off from its summer workout schedule and made a short trek within the Brick City to help two different entities provide service to those in need.

NJIT Hosts Multimedia Retrieval Forum to Make Smarter Info Networks

New Jersey Institute of Technology hosted the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval with in-person and remote participants focusing on critical, societal and technical presentations in the art of searching for vivid data online.

NJIT Alum, Prof, Entrepreneur Makes NJBIZ's List of Next Generation Leaders

The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision therapy company that launched in 2018.

Yang Deng - ECE PhD Student of the Month - July 2022

Yang Deng is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Tao Han at UNICS Lab in the ECE Department at NJIT. Prior to NJIT, he was a research assistant at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests include 5G/6G network resource management, edge computing, blockchain, and machine learning.

Campus Event Inspires High School Girls to Study Electrical Engineering

NJIT's electrical and computer engineering department hosted 65 girls representing 40 high schools in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania last week, teaching the students about opportunities in technical fields where females are historically overlooked.

Women's Soccer Announces Schedule For 2022 Campaign

NJIT women's soccer head coach Ally Nick has announced the Highlanders' 2022 season schedule, which will consist of 18 regular season games (10 home, 8 away), an eight-game America East conference slate, and a pair of scrimmages to kick off the season.

NJIT Men's Soccer Announces Schedule for 2022 Campaign

NJIT men's soccer head coach Fernando Barboto announced the upcoming 2022 season schedule, a 16-match slate that features nine road matches, including two first-time opponents UConn and Villanova and six home matches set to be played at Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

NJIT Student's Nonprofit Helps Diverse Voices Dive Into Shark Science

July’s annual Shark Week and SharkFest have become can’t-miss TV events for nature lovers, but for NJIT Ph.D. student Amani Webber-Schultz, getting up-close-and-personal with the ocean’s most famous apex predators is not just a year-round occupation — it’s a vehicle for social change.

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