Alumni News

Ask Katharine Ilyutovich what she will miss most about NJIT after graduating this May and she will promptly tell you “the people.” “It’s just nice that I can walk in and people will know who I am and just talk to me about whatever,” said the business major, referring to the kinship she has found over the past four years at Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM). “It’s just very comforting.”

Dear Students,

Courtesy: Marty Myers, Sports Writer, The Scranton Times-Tribune, mmyers@timesshamrock.com Dunmore Grad Martin Knows Road to Recovery All Too Well When she'll step onto a basketball court again, former Dunmore High School standout Martin doesn't know. She's certain of one thing. That third surgery March 11 on the same torn ACL in her left knee isn't going to stop her from playing ball again. Some call her determined. Others might say she's crazy.

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.

The NJIT community is rallying together to help those on the front lines during this global pandemic. Members of the community - including engineers, physicists, advanced manufacturing specialists and students - have pitched in to design, create or donate to the cause.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues upending life for countless people around the world, threatening public health while disrupting everything from basic home and work routines, to air travel and financial markets. But what has the global slowdown meant for the environment and sustainable living, and what could it mean if some of the radical changes in our everyday lifestyles and consumption habits persisted long-term?

For the latter half of 2019, Charles Auriemma was working double-time — spending 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as an audit analyst for Fidelity Investments in Jersey City, and evenings completing his degree in financial technology at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), through a full and final semester of both online and on-campus classes. He didn’t get many zzzs. “Yes, [I was] very tired,” he said with a laugh. But, “I got lots of sleep in January.”

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.

Students applying for Fulbright scholarships often see their work described as advanced, insightful, sophisticated or any number of similar platitudes -- but for senior industrial design major Daniel Meza the word was also slimy. Meza, who plans to graduate in December from Hillier College of Architecture and Design and who's also an Albert Dorman Honors College student, found his medium in mold and slime. He is just the fourth NJIT student to become a Fulbright Scholar and the first from HCAD.