Alumni News

Students, Faculty, and Staff of NJIT, Yesterday we celebrated the final of our commencement ceremonies, and it truly has been uplifting to offer these opportunities for our graduates to come together in-person, as well as virtually, to mark such an important occasion. Seeing members of the Class of 2021, as well as our honorary degree recipients, on campus, in their regalia, taking photos with their classmates, family, and friends raised the spirits of all involved and gave us a real sense of progress toward a return to normalcy.

Four Highlander programs have been recognized by the NCAA for perfect Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the 2020-21 academic year.  The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation of all student-athletes on scholarship, and provides a measure of each team's academic performance.

Every pitcher believes he has enough gas for one more strike-out, but an invention from NJIT Associate Professor Tao Han might forever change that old stare-down between players and coaches on the mound. A coach wearing a mixed-reality headset could receive real-time statistics and facial interpretation data to evaluate whether the pitcher is right to stand his ground, what he should change or whether it's time to call the bullpen, while also interfacing with a team of analysts and trainers who work remotely and see the same information.

NJIT student-athletes Molly Saylor and David Marcano have been selected 2021-22 America East Conference Man and Woman of the Year Nominees, the league office announced June 9.

Two undergraduates have turned a free Android mobile app development course they took into a teaching moment through CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses at colleges and universities who support low-income computer science students. 

New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top 10 Best College for Engineering Majors in the U.S., according to Money.

The idea for a service that would give buyers recommendations for products they cannot live without has won four computer science students in the Ying Wu College of Computing 1st place and a $5,000 grand prize as part of GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition.

New Jersey Institute of Technology President-Elect Teik C. Lim will talk about innovation at the next annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors. Lim, who'll begin his NJIT presidency on July 1, is participating in a Presidents’ Panel on “innovation in university culture, innovating for future generations and the role of invention in promotion and tenure,” as described by NAI. 

The America East Conference has announced that 12 student-athletes from NJIT have been named America East Presidential Scholar-Athletes for their outstanding academic achievements throughout their entire career, the league office announced Thursday. The award recognizes graduating student-athletes who compiled a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher as an undergraduate student and earned their undergraduate this spring.