Alumni News

Top Row: Fuad Hamidli, Huong Le, Yao Ma, Kamlesh Naik    Bottom Row: Shantanu Sharma,Julie Ancis, Hua Wei Seven new faculty members – researchers and instructors – joined the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) in Fall 2021, embracing the opportunity to contribute to the NJIT academic mission. They collectively bring a wealth of experience from as far as Asia and the Middle East to the four corners of the U.S., hailing from institutions and organizations that are recognized leaders in their fields.

NJIT Athletics held its 2020 Hall of Fame Ceremony on Homecoming Weekend, Saturday, October 9 inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

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They’ve famously survived the vacuum of space, and even returned to life after being frozen for decades in Antarctic moss. But as hard as it is to kill the bizarre microscopic animal, the tardigrade, it’s harder to find one fossilized. In fact, only two have ever been discovered and formally named — until now.

"We need to have a lot of heart this season in order to beat these really talented opponents that we know are very hard to face from last season." Those were fifth year Yasmeen Malik's words back in late August as the NJIT women's soccer team was in the midst of a trying four-game season-opening schedule.

There is nothing outwardly special about the old brick building on State Street and Broadway. To the layperson, it’s just another pile of bricks near a highway entrance. Through a phone app and a camera lens, the NJIT Littman Architecture Library’s Digital Archive of Newark Architecture (DANA) will soon be able to show, in augmented reality, that the building was State Street School, Newark’s longest-running public school and home to the city’s first Black principal. 

Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is proud to welcome a record-breaking number of new students at all levels of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral study for the fall 2021 semester. With 1,150 new students, YWCC achieved an 11% increase in its total enrollment, weighing in at 3,479 students - representing 31% of the total NJIT student body.

NJIT President Dr. Joel Bloom and the Board of Trustees recognized two programs Thursday, Sept. 23, inside the Campus Center. NJIT's baseball team had a historic 2021 season, which culminated with an NCAA Tournament berth and a trip to the NCAA Fayetteville Regional, and NJIT's men's and women's fencing teams captured the first NCAA trophy in program history with a fourth-place finish at the 2021 NCAA Fencing Championships.

Bryan Lee ‘08 and his firm Colloqate have been dismantling systemic racism in the broader social arena and in the practice of architecture for some time now. In his keynote lecture during the Hillier College 2020 Design Showcase, Lee describes how, through the process and outcomes of design, designers can get to Design Justice. It is a practice where designers and the community work together to produce spaces that will serve the people who will use it.