Alumni News

Monica Weglarz Wins Best Early-Stage Startup Award at UPitch Competition

Recent NJIT alumna Monica Weglarz envisioned a company delivering fuel and mechanic services while you're at work, offered as an employee benefit, in turn earning her a $1,500 award for the best early-stage startup at the 2022 UPitch New Jersey business plan competition. Weglarz said the research that she conducted, and the prize she earned, will help as she becomes a law student. She's studying for the Law School Admission Test this summer while working as a paralegal and has entrepreneurial ambitions.

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and accelerated after his second year at NJIT, when he tackled a Humanity in Action Fellowship that examined democracy and pluralism in modern Germany in the context of the Holocaust.

Senior Success: Published Researcher Marcos Molina to Pursue PhD at Princeton

Marcos Molina, a chemical engineer with a penchant for complicated algorithms, made a tough call when deciding among Ph.D. programs at several graduate Ivy League institutions. In the end, he chose to pursue theoretical and computational research at Princeton.

NJIT Hosts Big Data Alliance Symposium with Focus on Education

NJIT hosted the ninth New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, bringing together nearly 200 experts from academia, government and industry to share ideas about the present state and future trends of their field. Attendees represented a gamut of careers, not just programmers, which the panelists said indicates that the importance of artificial intelligence, data science and machine learning applies to nearly all aspects of life in the 21st century. Many students were also present.

2022 Hashimoto Prize Winner - Shihab Hafiz

Shihab Bin Hafiz was born in Bogura, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in July 2014. He completed his Master of Science in Nanoengineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in May 2017. He started his doctoral study at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in September 2017, where he joined Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices lab for his doctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Dong-Kyun Ko.

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to take on such challenges with the goal of improving lives.

Pradnya Desai Awarded in Startup Competition, Off to Microsoft

Pradnya Desai, a senior computer science major, made it her mission to accomplish as much as possible during her four years at NJIT, amassing an impressive resume that includes multiple awards and recognitions for her work combining technological invention with a desire to positively affect society.

NJIT Professors Prime Jada Evans for UCLA School of Law

Jada Evans had a plan when she arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2019 and achieved it – and then some – in just three years.

Senior Success: Sreya Sanyal Is Off to Become an NIH Researcher

Sreya Sanyal ’22 is right where she wants to be in the fight against cancer — at the cutting-edge of medical research. She’ll soon be using the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “genetic scissors”, to study human disease as a post baccalaureate researcher with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after graduation. For Sanyal, whose parents met and graduated from medical school in India, her journey toward a career as a physician-scientist specializing in cancer biology has deep roots, beginning at the age of 10.

New Jersey Innovation Institute Announces Sale of its Subsidiary, BioCentriq, for $73 Million

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) announced on May 16, 2022, the sale of its subsidiary, BioCentriq Inc., to GC corp. for $73 million. BioCentriq manufactures autologous and allogeneic cell therapies and gene therapies and specializes in viral vector production, cell and viral banking, and upstream and downstream processing.

David Marcano Named to COSIDA Academic All-District Team

David Marcano, a graduate student on the NJIT baseball team was named COSIDA Academic All-District II, it was announced on Thursday. Marcano, the team's shortstop who has played in and started 41 of 42 games this season, leads the Highlanders (21-21) in batting average (.333), while ranking second in home runs (seven) and RBIs (29). Earlier this season Marcano hit in 20-straight games, the longest hitting streak by a Highlander since 2007.

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NJIT Ranked No. 14 Nationally in Money's 2022 List of 'Best Colleges'

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked No. 14 overall in the United States by Money in its list of Best Colleges for 2022. Money evaluated more than 600 institutions focusing on 24 factors in three main categories that surveys have shown are the most important to students: quality of education, affordability and alumni outcomes.

Walking with Paralysis

Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landing him in a wheelchair. He was relishing his verticality.

NJIT Business Major Charis Hwang Lines Up PwC Role - But First, a Master's

Charis Hwang packed a lot into her four years studying business at New Jersey Institute of Technology, including three internships and a cooperative educational experience. That thick undergraduate resumé may explain why even before completing an accelerated master’s program, she landed a job with global consulting firm PwC. In fact, her last internship, during the summer of 2021, was at PwC, where she found a calling.

Senior Success: Architect, Student-Athlete Sydne Nance Joins Studio 1200

Sydne Nance's journey from NJIT architectural summer camp to track star to chapter president to professional designer was fueled by the confidence she gained through the university's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP).

Joseph Kennedy, Business Major and Volleyball Player, Heading to Georgetown

Joseph Kennedy has arms for volleyball, but now he's also armed with a B.S. in business from Martin Tuchman School of Management and will make Georgetown University his next stop for an M.S. in finance.

Senior Success: Badeti, Student Senate Prez, Working at Bloomberg

Anuja Badeti started interning at Bloomberg in high school, kept working there during summer breaks from college and will accept a full-time role upon her graduation from the joint B.S./M.S. program in computer science this spring. It's a strikingly logical career path, considering her childhood dream of being a farmer — "I really liked the idea of being able to grow food and eat it," she said — and then her move into campus politics, where she served as president of the NJIT Student Senate after not being involved until her junior year.

Sara Obead - ECE PhD Student of the Month - May 2022

Sarah Obead is a soon-to-be-hooded Ph.D. from the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Ms. Obead worked under the advisement of Professor Joerg Kliewer and has successfully defended her dissertation on April 27, 2022. She also completed her M.Sc. in Telecommunications from NJIT in 2016.

Students Earn High Marks in a Return to Engineering Competitions

Students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering have earned first, second and third place recognitions across steel bridge, chemical car and concrete canoe events held for inter-institutional competition.

Highlanders Win 6-3 on Sunday to Take Pivotal Series From Binghamton

The NJIT baseball team got a first inning home run from Julio Marcano on Sunday and never looked back en route to a 6-3 victory over host Binghamton in America East Conference action. The victory clinched the series for the Highlanders as the teams split the first two games and, more importantly, gives NJIT a one-game lead over Binghamton for the second bye in the upcoming America East Playoffs with six regular season games remaining.

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