Alumni News

Manhattan Skyline at night from across the river
December 17, 2020

Alumna Masha Drozdov '09 on Responsibility and the Value of Technical Skills

Masha Drozdov is a frequent guest critic for the advanced integrated architecture studios at Hillier College and Columbia GSAPP and has also participated as a guest for the Alumni Tea discussions at NJIT with students who are figuring out what their career paths will be. Masha’s admiration for Louis Kahns’ work and a fourth year NJIT project has been an inspiration for her volunteer work at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. She has been a docent at the park since 2012.
Code for energy management and cool design by Allie Kostelnik and Meghna Vambukar
December 17, 2020

Architecture Studios Present Research and Projects at Super Jury

After final reviews at the end of this semester the advanced Architecture Studios presented their projects at the Super Jury.
December 16, 2020

Pandemic Gives Architects New Challenges in Designing for Health Concerns

Architects consider cost, design aesthetics, materials, uses and a host of other factors when planning new spaces, but now the COVID-19 pandemic is making occupant health another factor to consider.
Interior view of the COCO coffee-shop-in-a-container prototype design
December 16, 2020

Interior/Digital Design Students Team Up on Coffee Shop Prototype

The team of interior and digital design students who collaborated with students in the Tuchman school of management on the COCO Coffee Shop include Sandy Ghattas, Claritza Guerrero, Ahn Ly, Rua Elmosallamy, and Suzanne Hlinka.  
December 15, 2020

Two NJIT Engineers are Elected 2020 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Two pioneering researchers, Rajesh Davé, a distinguished professor of chemical and materials engineering, and MengChu Zhou, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, were recently elected fellows of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Davé and Zhou join 173 other academic innovators, together representing 115 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes, in this year’s class of fellows. Collectively, the group holds more than 4,700 issued U.S. patents. Davé has 15 U.S. patents and Zhou has 14.
Michael Rivera design for NJIT gateway building
December 15, 2020

Architecture Students Propose NJIT Master Plan, New Building Designs

It is a long-standing practice within architecture studios to assign real-world projects to students as they develop the skills to build for the future. In a studio taught by Associate Professor Darius Sollohub, the reimagining of the Mueller Florist Supplies site continues this practice.
December 15, 2020

Lyzi Litwinko Tabs Second Straight America East Conference Rookie of the Week Honor

Freshman Lyzi Litwinko was selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week for the second straight week the league office announced on Monday. The 5-foot-8 guard from Berlin, CT, averaged 9.5ppg and 5.5rpg in a pair of games for the Highlanders last week.  Litwinko shot 42 percent on the week and matched her career-high with 11 points on Saturday against Fairleigh Dickinson.
Construction site with a "slow down" sign
December 14, 2020

Inculcating Ethics in Engineers

J. Britt Holbrook, a philosopher who specializes in science policy, is designing an innovative course in engineering ethics that focuses on justice and societal impact. The goal of the course is to help engineering students better understand how their future actions and decisions as engineers can directly affect the lives of individuals and communities at large.
December 14, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 12/14/20-12/18/20

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.
December 10, 2020

IBM-4-Good Ideathon Registration Now Open for Students

To celebrate Computer Science Education Week #CSEdWeek, IBM Z is teaming with Goodwall, a youth-led social enterprise, to power its "What’s Your Coding Story" video challenge. What inspired you to learn to code? Why does computer science fire you up? Tell IBM Z and Goodwall and earn an opportunity to win $1,000 toward education expenses through Goodwall’s video challenge. Upload your video now.
December 10, 2020

NJIT President Recognized with Technology Award for Boosting Innovation by TechUnited

In a virtual ceremony Dec. 9, NJIT President Joel S. Bloom was presented with the Martinson-Ballen Technology Supporter award by TechUnited. This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a significant impact and a long-standing contribution to New Jersey's technology and innovation industries. 
Researchers at the mouth of Brazil's São Vicente Cave system. Credit: Adriano Gambarini
December 9, 2020

"Spooky Interactions", Shocking Adaptations Discovered in Electric Fish of Brazil's Amazon

From Brazil's Amazon, researchers report “spooky interactions” among surface- and cave-dwelling electric fish, revealing shocking behavior of 300 blind cavefishes whose ancestors adopted life in darkness tens of thousands of years ago.
December 8, 2020

Engineering Graduates Bring Tech Skills and Gwara Gwara to the Lone Star State

When Jeffrey Jude-Ibe ’20 flew to Dallas in September to begin work as a quality engineer at Texas Instruments, Kelvin Siebeng ’19, the person who put the semiconductor giant on his job-search horizon, picked him up at the airport. With 3 full-time offers from major corporations and another from the FBI at his choosing, Siebeng also cemented the deal.
December 8, 2020

Lyzi Litwinko Selected America East Rookie of the Week

Freshman guard Lyzi Litwinko has been selected America East Conference Rookie of the Week the league office announced on Monday. In a 1-1 week for the Highlanders, Litwinko averaged 6.5 points-per-game and 5.0 rebounds-per-game in two conference games, making 50% of her three-point shots. She scored 11 points, notching four rebounds and three assists in NJIT's first America East Conference game – a 78-57 win over New Hampshire.
December 8, 2020

NJIT Registers First America East Win, Stoll and Squier Lead All Scorers with 19 Points

NJIT captured its first America East Conference victory Saturday afternoon led by senior Ellyn Stoll and sophomore Kenna Squier's game-high 19 points en route to a 78-57 victory over New Hampshire at Lundholm Gymnasium in the conference opener for both teams.
December 7, 2020

Hillier Design Professor Wins Awards for Augmented Reality Prototype

Hannah Kum-Biocca, an assistant professor at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, won two awards for an augmented reality project that she submitted to the EuroXR 2020 conference in Valencia, Spain. In her project, visitors to physical museums can wear a Microsoft Hololens headset to gain additional information about artifacts, such as looking at a real painting by Vincent van Gogh and seeing a virtual 3-D image of the painter himself standing in his bedroom and art studio, while talking about it in his own words. 
December 7, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 12/7/20-12/11/20

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.  
December 7, 2020

Free Android Dev Course Will be Taught by NJIT Students in Spring 2021

This spring semester, NJIT students will have the chance to participate in a free Android mobile app development course backed by major tech companies including Amazon, Cognizant, Facebook, and Microsoft, along with retail giant Walmart. The course is run by CodePath.org, a nonprofit organization that offers free software development courses with the goal of making computer science education more equitable, inclusive and effective. 
December 4, 2020

NJIT President Speaks on Innovation Goals and Receives Business Award

NJIT President Joel S. Bloom joined a panel discussion about statewide innovation, and received an award for public service, at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association's virtual Public Policy Forum on December 1.
fall 2020 trip to Integrated Industries Corp. to select a shipping container for The Coffee Container shop on campus
December 7, 2020

New NJIT Course Puts Students in Charge of Planning a Business

Students in a new NJIT course that delivers the experience of planning a business on campus appreciate the latitude that instructors give them to make decisions. “They guide you and respond to specific questions, but they won’t tell you exactly what to do and how,” said Marina Arrese ’21, a business major who’s part of a team in charge of finance and information systems for the class project. “They give you certain time, budget and operational constraints, but apart from that, you are free to—together with your team—make your own decisions and choose your own tools and methods.”

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