Alumni News

November 3, 2020

America East Releases 2020-21 Men's Basketball Conference Schedule

The America East Conference has announced its league schedule, with each team playing one another twice, on back-to-back days at one single location. NJIT will host New Hampshire in its first-ever America East games Dec. 12 and 13 at the Wellness and Events Center in Newark. In addition to the Wildcats, the Highlanders will also host Maine (Jan. 9/10), Stony Brook (Jan. 23/24) and UMBC (Feb. 18/19).
November 3, 2020

2020-21 America East Conference Women's Basketball Schedule Unveiled

The America East Conference has announced its 2020-21 women's basketball conference schedule which will feature NJIT's first season as a member in the league.
November 2, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 11/2/20-11/6/20

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.  
October 30, 2020

What is the Architect's Role in Rebuilding After Disaster?

The Fall 2020 Lecture Series on the theme of 'Responsibility' is hosting Jiakun Liu in conversation with Doreen Heng Liu, Monday November 2nd at 7:30pm, on the topic of the architects role in rebuilding after disaster.
October 30, 2020

Technology VIPs, Including an Internet Pioneer, Visit NJIT for Inspiration

TTI/Vanguard, a prestigious organization of technology industry executives who meet a few times each year to study and debate emerging innovations, chose to virtually visit New Jersey Institute of Technology this week for their latest intellectual retreat. The group's members, through exposure to wide swaths of cutting-edge technology research, advise their clients and employers about what directions to follow for commercialization and investment opportunities.
October 30, 2020

2020 Research Report Highlights Innovative Computing Research from YWCC Faculty

The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) at NJIT has published its 2020 Research Report, showcasing the diverse research activities conducted by Ying Wu faculty over the past year.
Eberhardt Hall Donor Wall Colton Society members
October 29, 2020

NJIT Honors Exceptional Donors at Launch of the Colton Society

NJIT’s inaugural inductees into its new Colton Society represent an array of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, finance, education and technology. Each, however, shares something remarkable in common: lifetime contributions to the university that exceed half a million dollars.
October 29, 2020

NJIT Mourns the Passing of Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail

It is with great sadness that I inform you about the death of Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, who received an honorary degree from NJIT in 2015 and served eloquently as our main Commencement speaker that year. Dr. McPhail is reported to have succumbed to complications from COVID-19 last week. He most recently was the president of St. Augustine University and enjoyed a long and distinguished career in higher education as a professor and administrator. At the time he received his honorary degree from NJIT, Dr.
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October 28, 2020

NJIT Turns Mobile Medical Care Prototype into Hub for COVID-19 Testing

NJIT has activated a prototype mobile medical care unit as a COVID-19 testing center for students, faculty and staff. 
October 28, 2020

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October 27, 2020

A Newly Minted NJIT Engineering Professor is Named a Fellow of the Academy of Optometry

Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology.
October 27, 2020

Researching the Effects of Online Misinformation and Realities of the Coronavirus

Assistant Professor Cody Buntain, NJIT's expert on the science of understanding social media, is turning his trained eyes to the connections between online misinformation and public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 28, 2020

Int'l Study Uncovers Secret Surfing Life of Remoras Hitchhiking on Blue Whales

Sticking to the bodies of sharks and other larger marine life is a well-known specialty of remora fishes (Echeneidae) and their super-powered suction disks on their heads. But a new study has now fully documented the “suckerfish” in hitchhiking action below the ocean’s surface, uncovering a much more refined skillset that the fish uses for navigating intense hydrodynamics that come with trying to ride aboard a 100-foot blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). 
October 26, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 10/26/20-10/30/20

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.  
October 26, 2020

School of Management Adds New Major in Financial Technology

NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management will offer a new major next fall, a Bachelor of Science in Financial Technology, inspired by the pressing need of corporations on Wall Street and beyond to hire a new generation of workers who are skilled in the latest trends of applying computing to commerce.
Joan Dorman and Albert Dorman '45 '99 HON alumnus
October 26, 2020

Honors College 25th Anniversary Celebrates Past, Looks to the Future

In the first of a series of events honoring its 25th anniversary, the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT held a live, online celebration. Reflecting on the anniversary of the college that he endowed, NJIT alumnus Albert Dorman revisited his remarks from its inauguration, and they are as relevant today as they were in 1995 — perhaps even more so.
October 23, 2020

NJIT Intern for Cisco Systems Left Her Mark in Silicon Valley, Virtually

Aarati Srikumar, a junior computer science major from Edison and honors student at NJIT, made the best of her summer internship with networking giant Cisco Systems despite the pandemic changing her plans to experience Silicon Valley in person. Cisco adjusted their program to be fully remote, giving Aarati and her fellow interns a unique and rewarding learning opportunity to work on the company's software updating processes.
October 22, 2020

NJIT Shines as a 'Best Global University' by US News & World Report Rankings

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) once again is ranked among the best international universities in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s global college and university rankings. The university saw its overall score increase in the expanded rankings. Notably, NJIT is one of only six universities in New Jersey to make the list of nearly 1,500 institutions from 86 countries scored by the publication.
October 21, 2020

New Executive & Professional Programs Offered by NJIT

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) and the Leadership Difference announced its newly formed professional and executive education partnership to serve and upskill innovative leaders across all levels in all industries at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  
Rendering from the Claiborne Innovation District project
October 23, 2020

Design Justice: The Language of Anti-Racist Architectural Vernacular

“For every injustice in the world there is an architecture, a plan, a design that sustains it.“ Bryan C. Lee Jr ‘08 Architecture, as a field of design, is coming to terms with the ways that architects are educated within a canon that places modern western culture and the object, a building, at the center of its practice. It has been a culturally narrow approach that has disregarded the localized vernacular designs that reflect the history and culture of communities of color and their relationship to and experience of place. 

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