Alumni News

On Monday, March 16, 2020, NJIT will make science competitive yet fun when it hosts the Technology Student Association’s Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TSA-TEAMS). The annual, statewide STEM competition for middle and high school students is designed to help them discover their potential for engineering in an engaging way, by showing them how math and science, with an engineering focus, are used to make tangible differences in the world.

In the 1950’s it was uncommon to see a black woman practicing architecture. Pictured here during her tenure at Gruen Associates, Norma Merrick Sklarek was an uncommon woman. She is recognized as the 3rd African American woman to be licensed to practice architecture in the U.S., after Beverly Loraine Greene and Georgia Louise Harris Brown. As the stories of her predecessors were unknown to her, she keenly felt the absence of others like herself in the profession.

The NJIT women's tennis team immediately bounced back from Friday's loss at St. John's to earn a 4-3 victory over Army West Point Saturday evening at the Lichtenberg Tennis Center. The Highlanders (6-3) lost the doubles point but were able to secure the win by taking four of the six singles flights, all in straight sets.

Social Security benefits continue to make up a substantial portion of most Americans’ retirement portfolios. With many people depending on this program during their golden years, understanding the associated value and risks of future Social Security payments is of the utmost importance. But just what are the associated risks for recipients based on their health profile and wage history?

As the great improv comic Robin Williams once said, “You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Newark audiences enjoyed plenty of unique and entertaining moments, sparked with that little bit of madness, during the city’s annual celebration of improv theater recently.

NJIT researchers will look to continue a successful string of space-bound studies at the International Space Station (ISS) when a new payload of experimental samples launches to the station with the SpaceX CRS-20 commercial cargo resupply mission on Mar. 7. 

The NJIT Athletic Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) is teaming up with Project Life Movement on February 18-19 to hold a Swab Drive in support of increasing the number of potential bone marrow donors nationwide. The Swab Drive will be held Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 from 11 a.m to 4 p.m.  Registration will take place in the NJIT Campus Center Lobby. NJIT SAAC will be promoting the event on social media with the hashtag #swabtosave.

From the Arctic Ocean to the shores of Hawaii, NJIT Distinguished Professor of philosophy and music David Rothenberg has long been traveling, clarinet in-hand, across the seas of the world — playing along to the tune of nature while recording the dramatic songs produced by whales from the ocean's depths. Now, after a recent collaboration, those far-out sounds could make it into the music you hear during a night out this year.

Ralph Izzo ’10 HON, chairman, president and CEO of PSEG, New Jersey’s largest energy provider, argued at a forum on campus this week that the country’s climate policies are ineffectual and, in some instances, even counterproductive. “There is a lot of work to do, but we’re not moving in the right direction,” he told an audience of students and faculty at the Guttenberg Information Technology Center at a talk entitled, “Five Things to Tackle Climate Change.”