Alumni News

 Zach Cooks scored a season-high 25 points, while Miles Coleman and Antwuan Butler each added double-digit scoring performances off the bench as the NJIT men's basketball team defeated visiting Stony Brook 74-65 in America East Conference action on Saturday afternoon at the Well

There is no sustainable cure at present for osteoarthritis, the most common chronic musculoskeletal disorder of the joints. And while joint replacements are successful treatments for older patients with already reduced mobility, they hold less promise for younger patients, with failure in the long-term nearly guaranteed. Biomaterial engineers propose another solution: restoring the damaged tissue itself.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Program, Christine Liaukus at the Center for Building Knowledge is heading a research team of Hillier College students, experts from BASF, industry contractors and the United Way. The project is called “Re-Side Right” and it’s testing the performance benefit of installing a new insulation developed by BASF as part of a re-siding job. Neopor® Graphite polystyrene (GPS) is rigid foam insulation designed to improve the R-value of existing walls and when detailed as an air barrier, can also reduce air leakage through exterior walls.

Daniel Meza, Albert Dormans honors scholar, industrial design alum ‘20 and Fulbright scholarship recipient, has some advice for the current cohort of industrial design students. “There are a lot more opportunities for research and innovation in industrial design than you might think. For the first three years of my program it had not been on my radar that research is viable and something that you can make happen at NJIT.”  

NJIT picked up it first America East Conference series sweep of the season, behind freshman Lyzi Litwinko's first career double-double, combining for 10 points, 13 rebounds as the Highlanders cruised to a 62-42 win over visiting Hartford Monday afternoon in women's basketball conference action inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

NJIT's interior design program has new opportunities for students to learn career, leadership and life skills from alumni mentors, as its graduate population that started with the original class of 2012 expands, enters higher levels of their field and looks to give back. The idea evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic from alumnae Alma Villalba and Pamela Ospina, who in their current jobs observed colleagues from other universities serving as mentors and saw the potential for their own alma mater.

People who have low vision — those who have difficulty seeing even when wearing corrective lens, according to American Foundation for the Blind — may soon be able to learn basic skills such as crossing the street or learning their way around by simulating the experience through a new application of virtual reality, which is being designed by NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski and his students.

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.

Senior captain San Antonio Brinson continued his impressive season on Saturday afternoon as he helped lead the NJIT men's basketball team to a 73-67 America East conference victory against host UMass Lowell at the Costello Athletic Center.