Alumni News

In conjunction with the 2021 Summer Research Symposium, NJIT launched a campus chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an organization founded in 2010 to recognize and promote academic technology and innovation and to encourage its translation into devices and services that benefit society. NJIT inducted 32 faculty members at the ceremony, as well as nine honorary members, including President Joel Bloom and Provost Fadi Deek. Chapter members must hold patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Sixth-year head coach Fernando Barboto announced the Highlanders 2021 schedule, featuring a 17-match regular season slate which will kick off Aug. 26 at home on Lubetkin Field at Mal Simon Stadium.

New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design announced the launch of the revamped microgrids.io, a web-based resource focused on planning and developing sustainable, resilient local government microgrids locally and nationally. 

Dhiraj Shah, a transformational business leader, high growth investor and passionate entrepreneur who founded global IT services company Avaap, has joined NJIT’s Board of Trustees. Shah is executive chairman of Avaap, a technology and management consultancy that provides software services to help organizations modernize and transform their operations for the digital world. Its clients are concentrated in healthcare, higher education and government. Shah founded the Edison-based firm in 2006.

The Newark Community Museum will stand at a flashpoint in history – the infamous police precinct where a rebellion began. Before any bricks can be laid, Roger Smith, adjunct professor at the NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design and design director at Gensler, was called on to lead the design process. At a press conference in July, Smith showed an eager audience a glimpse of Gensler’s conceptual renderings.

A new agreement between Hudson County Community College (HCCC) and NJIT will allow for seamless transfer of students into NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. The articulation agreement, signed Tuesday, July 27 in HCCC's Culinary Conference Center, allows students who earn an Associate of Science in Business Administration degree at HCCC to transfer into NJIT's Bachelor of Science degree programs in Business, Business Online Accelerated Entrepreneurship, and Financial Technology—FinTech.

Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio.

Ayushi Sangoi ’20, a Ph.D. candidate who uses neuroimaging and eye movement-tracking equipment to discover connections between brain injuries and eye disorders was awarded a highly competitive graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. The biomedical engineer is the first NJIT graduate student to receive one. Sangoi was among 28 awardees, selected from a field of 336 applicants, who were commended for their academic achievements, campus leadership and service, and anticipated contributions to their fields. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend.

Elisa Charters, a stalwart for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) and dedicated alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been appointed to the NJIT Board of Trustees.