Alumni News

Randy Valerio, a production maintenance supervisor for a pharmaceutical company, receives his training certificate as Professor ShaQueel Dyer (left), who taught the course, and Newark College of Engineering Dean Moshe Kam (right) look on.
August 4, 2020

35 Professionals Graduate from NJIT's Inaugural Advanced Manufacturing and Mechatronics Program

Matthew Berdel, a systems engineer who tests software during the workweek, spent his Saturday mornings in NJIT’s Makerspace last semester immersed in engineering of a very different sort: constructing a working machine from fabricated parts. “I wanted to know more about hardware,” Berdel explained. “I was looking for a deeper understanding of electrical and mechanical systems – and to develop a new set of skills I can rely on.”
August 6, 2020

New Fossil Discovery Shows How Ancient 'Hell Ants' Hunted with Killer Headgear

A fossil recently recovered from the age of the dinosaurs is giving scientists the most vivid picture yet of how one of the most enigmatic and fearsome groups of ants to exist once used their uncanny tusk-like mandibles and diverse horns to successfully hunt down victims for nearly 20 million years, before vanishing from the planet...
August 3, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/3/20-8/7/20

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.
Students in Cong Wang’s Control Automation Robotics Lab are developing cars, guided by remote drivers at gaming-style steering wheel and pedal control stations, that will be deployed on the streets of a miniaturized Newark, N.J.
July 28, 2020

Model Cars With Human Drivers Take to the Streets of a Miniaturized Newark

In an NJIT robotics lab spilling over with 3D-printed parts, engineering students are gutting toy trucks, SUVs, sedans and two-door Mini Coopers and refitting them with custom-designed systems: laser-cut side mirrors, wheels that can parallel park and a braking system that employs algorithms to control an electric motor, thus enabling soft and hard breaking, idling and taxiing.
July 27, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 7/27/20-7/31/20

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 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.
Books on shelf
August 7, 2020

Attention Bibliophiles: Pick Up a Book by an NJIT Author

Reading took center stage Aug. 9 when Book Lovers Day was celebrated throughout the country. The unofficial holiday honors reading and literature, and urges people to spend the day transported by a book. Many members of the NJIT community are published book authors, with works ranging from historical accounts and scientific manuals to career handbooks and children’s stories. In observance of Book Lovers Day, here we highlight just a few of the recent page-turners by Highlander faculty and alumni (in alphabetical order).
July 27, 2020

Deane Evans Named Hillier College Associate Dean of Research

Deane Evans, newly named Associate Dean of Research at Hillier College, has been at the  School of Architecture at NJIT since 2001, building one of the most successful architecture research programs in the country as Executive Director of the Center for Building Knowledge (CBK) and the Center for Resilient Design.
July 27, 2020

From Hillier College to Southern China – a Personal Odyssey

This story was submitted by Adam Brillhart, architecture alumnus, Class of 2008.
July 23, 2020

LISTEN: NJIT President on Bloomberg Podcast to Talk Mobile Medical Care Unit and Pandemic Response

Joel S. Bloom, president of NJIT, joined Bloomberg's Businessweek podcast to discuss the opening of a mobile medical care unit to aid in fighting COVID-19, as well as NJIT's response to the pandemic.  
July 23, 2020

Students Bring New Ideas to NJIT For Black Lives Matter Movement

African-American students, backed by members of the faculty, said they will look to the college administration for help enacting new measures that could lead to more opportunities for Black people in NJIT classrooms and beyond. The ideas, expressed in two virtual forums this month as part of a campus reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, include creating a university task force on racism that would involve student members, forming a required class or seminar to educate new students on inclusion and actively increasing the number of Black professors.
July 22, 2020

A Message from the Chair of the Board of Trustees Robert Cohen

Dear NJIT Community,
July 20, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 7/20/20-7/24/20

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 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announcements email.  
July 20, 2020

Hillier Faculty Building Energy Research Portfolio Growing

Associate Professor Hyojin Kim has distinguished herself in a number of ways since she joined the Hillier College of Architecture and Design in fall of 2019. She came to NJIT with a research project funded by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) within the U.S. Department of the Interior. This research aims to develop a new field toolkit and methodology for evaluating the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) performance of historic buildings for their sustainable and effective reuse, while preserving the integrity and fabric of those buildings.
July 20, 2020

Architecture Alums Redesign Historic Church for New Harriet Tubman Museum

Cape May's new Harriet Tubman Museum, which is hosting virtual openings this year due to COVID-19 and plans to open conventionally in spring 2021, has a touch of Highlander inside.
July 17, 2020

America East Fall Sports Competition Postponed for Duration of First Semester

NEWARK, NJ – With the health and safety of its member institutions’ communities, the importance of successful institutional campus reopenings and the overall well‐being of its student‐athletes as its top priorities, the America East Conference Board of Presidents announced today a postponement, not cancellation, of all America East fall sport athletics competition and championships for the duration of the first semester.
July 17, 2020

NJIT@JerseyCity Expands with New Graduate Programs in Computing

Three master's degrees and five graduate certificate programs are now available to Ying Wu College of Computing students in the NJIT​ @​JerseyCity location.
Leir Research Institute at Martin Tuchman School of Management
July 16, 2020

Leir Research Institute to Hold Timely Conference on Disruptive Technologies

In this unprecedented era of the COVID-19 pandemic and many other disruptive occurrences, the landscapes of society, industry and academics have been and will continue to be reshaped. Resilience and sustainability have become more imperative than ever before, and leveraging innovative technology to embrace the new normal is a strategic necessity.
Researchers Rosanna Dent, José Rodolfo Mendonça de Lucena, James R. Welch and Caio Bibiani in Xavante territory in Central Brazil during the 30-day spiritual initiation ritual, darini, that takes place every 15 years.
July 14, 2020

In Xavante Territory, the Researched Recruit the Researchers

By: Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor of History Every year, with the dry season, come the researchers. They arrive with audio recorders, microscopes and glucose meters. They bring backpacks filled with GPS recorders, cameras and field notebooks. They ask endless streams of questions about how to live in the Cerrado of Central Brazil. The Xavante community members who receive and host us are long accustomed to these visits.
July 14, 2020

NJ Consortium Develops Mobile Medical Unit to Address Health Facility Shortage

In response to the extreme challenges to clinical capacity posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, three New Jersey institutions – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation – are collaborating in a unique partnership on the development of modular, mobile medical care facilities to be deployed to areas of surging disease outbreaks and other disasters, as well as to regions that lack health care infrastructure.
Logo created by Jessica Vattima, outreach & events associate for Rowan University's Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
July 15, 2020

Virtual Meetup Connects Business Owners and Entrepreneurship Experts

When Mike Amegashie ’09, owner of Clyver Interview Prep, was invited to attend InnovateNJ’s inaugural “happy hour” for New Jersey entrepreneurs, he jumped at the opportunity to participate.

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