Alumni News

August 27, 2020

Computing Professor's App Manages NJIT Converged Learning

As students return to campus this fall, NJIT and universities around the country face the challenge of adhering to COVID-19 preventative measures such as social distancing and mask use, while also maximizing the usage of the available resources and learning spaces on campus. One of the techniques deployed at NJIT is converged learning, where only a fraction of the students enrolled in a course are physically present in a classroom while the remainder participate online.
Logo design by Bogdan Seredyak
August 21, 2020

Hillier College Logo Design by Bogdan Seredyak

It was a very fruitful time during my 2007-2012 studies at what was then NJIT's CoAD. Before, the New Jersey School of Architecture was still growing and exploring new ways to engage with the latest computer and fabrication techniques. It was great to be a part of that process. I'd like to give a special thank you to Professor Stephen Zdepski, who really helped me shape a grander view on the architecture profession as a whole.
Logo Design by Castellano and Szabla
August 21, 2020

Hillier College Logo Designed by Fabio Castellano and Natalia Szabla

We have had an interesting journey since graduating in 2016. Natalia and I both went into design jobs after graduating. In our free time we would collaborate together on design projects and after seeing that we have a good work relationship decided to start a studio.
August 21, 2020

Hillier College Logo Design by Brian Novello

NJIT alumnus Muhammad Alnakash and I are co-founders of CheckSET Review where we are reinventing Quality Assurance & Risk Management for developers, contractors, and architects through expert peer reviews. By proactively identifying errors and omissions embedded in contract documents, we help reduce construction RFI's and change orders, saving significant time and money for project stakeholders.
August 21, 2020

NJIT Unifies City Engagement Efforts in Newark Design Collaborative

Faculty from Hillier College of Architecture and Design are formalizing their previously ad hoc collaborations with multiple NJIT departments, the City of Newark, local neighborhood groups and private developers into a new entity called the Newark Design Collaborative.
August 25, 2020

Study of Asia's Hillstream Loaches Reveals Keys to Fish Family's Unusual Land-Walking Abilities
August 20, 2020

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college.
August 20, 2020

The School of Art + Design: Innovating Then and Innovating Now

Staying true to the long history of innovation will be the challenge for the next director of the School of Art + Design. Effective July 1, Professor Glenn Goldman, FAIA, IIDA, has decided to return to full time teaching after leading the School as Director since its founding in 2008. He will assume the title of Director Emeritus in recognition of his pivotal role in developing and growing the design programs in the School.
August 20, 2020

NJIT SIGGRAPH 2020 events, elections and spotlight

See the faculty submissions of student work SIGGRAPH 2020 gallery here.  SIGGRAPH Educators Forum panel moderated by Prof. Glenn Goldman on School to Work Transition will be joined in discussion by:  
August 19, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/17/20-8/21/20

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.
August 18, 2020

Accreditation Assessment Team Invites Public Comment for NJIT Police Department

A team of assessors from the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) will virtually examine all aspects of the NJIT Police Department’s policies and procedures, management, operations, and support services Chief Joseph Marswillo announced today. This assessment will occur on Monday, August 24, 2020.
August 18, 2020

Interior Design Program Gets a Stamp of Approval From CIDA Accreditation Board

Thanks to all the hard work by Interior Design Program Coordinator David Brothers pictured above, and A+D Dir. emeritus Glenn Goldman, and all of the excellent faculty who teach these courses, the Interior Design program continues to be one of the best programs in the country to get your degree.  
August 18, 2020

Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Releases 'When The Black Squares Fade'

The NJIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) recently released a video entitled, "When The Black Squares Fade," that reinforces the Highlander student-athlete community's commitment to social justice. The video - written, edited, and produced completely by NJIT SAAC, features over a dozen student-athletes speaking emphatically about doing their part to make the world a better place. Watch the video below:  
NJIT @JerseyCity Students
August 13, 2020

Graduate from NJIT@JerseyCity First Cohort Shares His Experience

Voluminous amounts of data can be overwhelming to even the most experienced professional. That was the experience of Roberto Rivera, a senior research analyst with NJ TRANSIT. Spending his days immersed in large data sets, Roberto realized that continuing his education would provide him with additional skills and training to help him manage the increasingly data-intensive nature of his work.
August 10, 2020

Historic Science Fiction Offers Lessons for Living With Pandemics

Science fiction sometimes shows us the future, but really just shows us ourselves, asserts Associate Professor of Humanities and sci-fi aficionado Nancy Steffen-Fluhr. She was teaching the 2014 novel Station Eleven, about a troupe of actors and musicians struggling for normalcy after a global pandemic kills most of the world's population, in spring 2020 right as COVID-19 formed in Asia, reached America and found its way to Newark.
August 7, 2020

NJIT's Alvaro Gimeno to Represent Spanish National Volleyball Team

NJIT men's volleyball rising senior Alvaro Gimeno will represent the Spanish National Team for the third straight summer. The national team will compete from August 30 to September 6 in Cyprus. The qualifier games will consist of three days of games, two days of rest and three more games against Cyprus, Moldavia, Latvia and Spain. The champion qualifies for 2021 EuroVolley.
August 11, 2020

Free Subscriptions to Barron's for NJIT Students, Spots Are Limited

NJIT students can now access a free digital subscription to the Barron’s in Education Program from Dow Jones. The online offering provides entry to Barron’s, which includes its renowned financial portal and magazine, experiential learning and networking opportunities, and more.
Anuj Patel, president of the NJIT Student Senate, at a retreat earlier this year to discuss goals for the year.
August 11, 2020

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after suffering an allergic reaction and found herself short of funds to cover her co-payment.
August 6, 2020

Acoustic Modems Reach Underwater Where Radio Signals Can't

Communicating by sound underwater works great for dolphins and whales, so an NJIT expert decided to try a new variant of this method for autonomous vehicles, divers and sensors, too. Radio signals used by traditional wireless devices become too weak underwater, explained Ali Abdi, a professor of electrical engineering and director of the Advanced Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory, in NJIT’s Center for Wireless Information Processing.
August 6, 2020

Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome

A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure – and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods. The paper was published online by the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.

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