Alumni News

October 22, 2020

Firefighting, Fitness, and Furniture Design are Passions for Hillier Freshman

When NJIT industrial design major Christopher Hasenkopf isn't in class this semester, it might be because he's out saving someone's home, office or even their life. His local volunteer fire station in New Providence practically didn't need a dalmatian for their mascot — "I've been going around the station since I moved here when I was three. They had a lot of open houses," he joked. He joined the junior firefighter corps two days after turning 16, which is the earliest age allowed, and entered the Morris County Public Safety Training Academy at 18.
Susana Holguin-Veras '06 BS ARCH
October 21, 2020

Architecture To Marketing - Susana Holguin-Veras '06 On Finding Your Career Path

Susana Holguin-Veras, Principal at TheoryCo. talks about how she discovered her career path by following her interests, using her strengths, and understanding architecture can be practiced in many ways.   
October 22, 2020

Three-Time NJIT Alum and Medtech Leader Robert C. Cohen Named New NJIT Board of Trustees Chair

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is pleased to announce that Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, of Basking Ridge, NJ, has been appointed Chair of its Board of Trustees. Cohen succeeds Stephen P. DePalma ’72, who stepped down after a distinguished seven-year term. 
October 20, 2020

GirlHacks Went Virtual, Projects Focused on COVID-19 and Social Justice

GirlHacks went virtual this year, with extra-diverse participation and several healthcare-oriented projects, all due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event, which was hosted Oct. 10-11 by NJIT's Women in Computing Society, had almost 80 entrants spanning 28 projects from colleges and even high schools across the U.S. and beyond.
Pneu muscles designed by Vera Parlac
October 19, 2020

Designing Dynamic Building Facades For Exchange, Energy and Flow

Vera Parlac, associate professor of architecture in the Hillier College, presented her futuristic work on integration of pneumatic muscles into building skins recently at the Façade Tectonics World Congress. 
October 19, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 10/19/20-10/23/20

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 19, 2020

Using the Internet of Things to Teach Computer Science to High School Students

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of billions of devices like cell phones, cars, smart TVs and home alarms connected to the internet. It's also the idea behind the innovative curriculum that Pramod Abichandani and Prateek Shekhar are developing to teach computer science and software engineering to high school students. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the curriculum will use low-cost, IoT hardware kits to challenge 300 students
October 16, 2020

New Admissions Option Will Increase Honors Student Enrollment

Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Martin Tuchman School of Management, Newark College of Engineering and Ying Wu College of Computing each year who desire the rigor of an honors education within their academic discipline.
October 16, 2020

Q&A with NJIT's BoT Chair and Stryker's President of Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technologies
October 16, 2020

'NJIT Magazine' Fall 2020 Edition Available Now
NJIT students get active threat training from Public Safety
October 13, 2020

NJIT Earns Recertification in Active Threat, Emergency Response Preparedness

The ALICE Training Institute has recertified NJIT in active threat and emergency response efforts, with 82% of its full-time staff and faculty completing online training that’s designed to safeguard the campus community in the event of an active threat. To achieve recertification, NJIT’s Department of Public Safety also conducted a drill simulating an active threat and updated the NJIT Emergency and Continuity of Operations Plan that met the institute’s standards, Deputy Chief Kevin Kesselman said. 
October 13, 2020

Former NASA Astronaut Bernard Harris Joins NJIT Forum on Post-COVID STEM Learning
October 12, 2020

Institute for Data Science Unveils 2020-2021 Talks, Many to Discuss COVID-19

About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey .
October 12, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 10/12/20-10/16/20

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 13, 2020

Honors Students Learn to Merge Information Tech and Social Consciousness

Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success.
October 8, 2020

The Missing Link in COVID Planning is Real-Time, Data-Driven Risk Modeling

Our national COVID-19 policy for reopening the economy is a patchwork of plans with varying mixes of masking, social distancing and testing. What’s missing, as evident in the results of these measures on the ground, is the collective action that unites the strength of government and industry with our nation’s technical prowess. We must not only implement widescale rapid testing, but link it to high-speed risk modeling to inform policy and responses at the local, regional and national levels.
October 8, 2020

College of Computing Welcomes New Faculty in AI, Databases, Networking

Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students.
October 6, 2020

Electrical Laws Can Help Break Network Graph Comparison Bottleneck

Yiannis Koutis wants to know if a method inspired by electrical laws could lead to a faster and more insightful way of comparing seemingly disparate networks. Koutis, an associate professor of computer science in NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, will study this question for his $150,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation program known as EAGER — EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research — which supports research that is unproven yet potentially transformative.
Bernard Harris speaking at STEM forum in 2018
October 6, 2020

Former Astronaut and CEO of National Initiative to Reimagine STEM Education at NJIT Forum 

Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr., CEO of the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and the first African-American astronaut to complete a space walk, will reimagine STEM education at NJIT’s annual STEM School Leadership Forum.
October 5, 2020

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 10/5/20-10/9/20

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.  

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