Alumni News

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/10/21-5/14/21

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.

Message from President Bloom – Best Places to Work in New Jersey Survey

Dear Faculty and Staff, Next week, we will launch a critical component of the university’s strategic initiative to build NJIT’s reputation as a great place to work: a comprehensive employee satisfaction and engagement assessment by faculty and staff. I ask that you mark your calendars for May 14, when you will receive an electronic survey that should take you no more than 15 minutes to complete.

Heft, A Fintech Fanatic and Volleyball Star, Heading to Brown University

Logan Heft, a senior business major and NJIT volleyball player, will intern as a business intelligence specialist at Global X ETFs this summer and then head to Brown University in the fall to study for a master's degree in data science.

Researchers Explain, and Predict, COVID-19 Spread With Advanced Models

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the virus’s migration from the initial, densely populated hot spots and try to curb its spread. Months later, infections were nonetheless recorded in similar patterns in nearly every region of the country, both urban and rural.

NJIT Shines Again as a Top 100 University in the QS USA Rankings for 2021

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked third in New Jersey and in the top 100 nationally in the second annual Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking USA list for 2021. More than 750 institutions across the country were considered for the ranking. At No. 90, NJIT is joined by Princeton University and Rutgers-New Brunswick as the only New Jersey institutions within the top 100.

NJIT to Honor Class of 2021 With In-Person and Virtual Commencement

New Jersey Institute of Technology will honor the Class of 2021, in addition to August and December graduates from 2020, through in-person ceremonies on May 12 and 14, and a hybrid ceremony streamed live on May 18. The uniqueness of this year's ceremony is due to local, national and worldwide activity restrictions necessitated by the COVID pandemic.

NJIT Athletics Hosts 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic June 7

Register for the 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic NEWARK, NJ--The Department of NJIT Athletics will hold its 22nd Annual Highlanders Golf Classic, presented by ikon.5 architects on Monday, June 7, 2021, at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, N.J.

NJIT Completes Series Sweep of UMBC, Highlanders Have Won Five Straight

The NJIT baseball team swept a doubleheader from host UMBC for the second-straight day, defeating the Retrievers 7-5 in game one, before winning game two 14-6 to complete the four-game series weep. NJIT (15-19, 14-14 America East) has now won five-straight games for the first time since 2018. UMBC's record now stands at 14-18 overall and 9-18 in America East action. The Highlanders are now tied with Binghamton for second place in the America East 'B' Division, with the top two teams in the division qualifying for the America East Playoffs. Game One

Pair of Highlanders Earn 2021 NVA/AVCA All-America Honors

A pair of Highlanders, outside hitter Alvaro Gimeno and middle blocker Luca Berger were named to the 2021 National Volleyball Association (NVA)/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) men's Division I-II All-America team.

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/3/21-5/7/21

Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.

Missing the NJIT Campus? Engineering Student Made One in Minecraft

New Jersey Institute of Technology has a new campus, but you can only go there by computer because civil engineering major Pawel Sierhej built it entirely in Minecraft.

NJIT-led Project 'Visualize Organic Chemistry' Gets Global Reaction

A new NJIT-led project is making learning about the abstract world of organic chemistry a fresher, interactive experience that students can now easily explore in hi-res action through their digital devices. Already, it’s created quite a reaction among young chemists and their teachers around the world. The new web project, called Visualize Organic Chemistry (VOC), was launched in March by students in the research group of NJIT Assistant Professor of Chemistry Pier Alexandre Champagne.

NJIT ACM Chapter Hosts JerseyCTF Cybersecurity Competition

NJIT's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first cybersecurity competition last month, with one of its own members on the winning team among more than 600 participants from 26 countries.

NJIT computer science major Yashee Kothari

NJIT Student Earns Top Prize in Statewide Business Pitch Competition

A computer science major at New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned the top prize in a statewide collegiate competition that judges pitches for innovative business ideas. The student, Yashwee Kothari ’22, pitched a mobile application for tracking the symptoms of people recovering from traumatic brain injuries – an idea she has been developing since high school.

Researchers Creating Drones with Artificial Intelligence to Help Firefighters

Human-computer interaction researchers at NJIT and Israel's Ben-Gurion University are exploring how AI-enabled drones could communicate with people at the scene, so that firefighters can save more lives and property. Firefighters already use drones because they can go where people can't, while human controllers are located someplace safe. But if the drones could get a dose of autonomy, through the clever use of artificial intelligence software, then their usefulness could be interactive rather than only serving as flying cameras and heat sensors.

NJIT Blasts Six HRs in Sunday Doubleheader to Take Series From No. 26 Stony Brook

A day after sweeping a doubleheader from No. 26 Stony Brook, the NJIT baseball team earned a split to take the four-game America East series in wild fashion on Sunday at Jim Hynes Stadium on the campus of Kean University. Stony Brook (20-11, 16-4 America East) took game one 5-2 and led by as many as six early in game two, before a ferocious come back from NJIT (11-19, 10-14 America East) gave the Highlanders a walk-off 9-8 victory. All three of NJIT's win's this weekend came by one run. Game One

Samantha Pires Design for Newark Airport Biophilic Headhouse and Community Nexus

NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition Partner with Cities and Airports

April 30th, from 8:15am - 4pm NJIT and the Newark Airport City Coalition are hosting a one-day virtual conference focused on how cities can work together with their airports to optimize economic, societal, and environmental benefits in support of job generation and equitable, inclusive growth. Two key sessions will address the successes of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Amsterdam Airport- Schiphol and their airport city strategies.

Men's Swimming Takes Third At America East Championships, Horstkamp-Vinekar Named Top Rookie

The NJIT men's swimming and diving team wrapped up its first-ever America East Swimming Championships appearance Sunday evening, claiming third place overall with a total of 614 points. Binghamton took the men's championship with 889 points and UMBC placed second with 872. In the women's swimming championships, New Hampshire prevailed (817 points) over UMBC (621.5) and Vermont (613.5).

NJIT Selected as EPA Region 2 Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities Provider

NJIT has been chosen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide training and technical assistance to communities in EPA Region 2, which comprises New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, under the Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Program.

Motion Cafe by Palacio

Interior Designers Palacio and des Lauriers Win Awards and Recognition

Nicole Palacio and Okhyun Des Lauriers were both awarded scholarships for interior design by the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality (NEWH). Palacio is a 3rd year design student who submitted work she completed in 2nd year with Prof. Goldman. Des Lauriers is also a third year interior design student.

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