Alumni News

January 27, 2020

Men's Volleyball Wins Third Straight, Sweeps Ball State

The NJIT men's volleyball team won its third straight match of the season, sweeping visiting Ball State, 3-0, Saturday evening in men's volleyball non-conference action at NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. The win over Ball State marks the third straight win for NJIT, who have won the last four-out-of-five matches, improving to 4-2 overall.  The win over the Cardinals marks the first all-time win against Ball State.
January 27, 2020

NJIT Machine Learning Expertise Powers Tax Software for Vertex Inc.

Throughout the United States there are more than 11,000 tax jurisdictions collecting sales tax. Imagine it’s your job to keep up with all the changes to tax laws and help clients follow every new rule and file every return. That’s the task Vertex, Inc. faces daily. Vertex develops tax software and services for indirect taxes such as sales tax, consumer use tax, payroll tax and value-added tax.
January 24, 2020

NJIT Sweeps No. 11 Purdue Fort Wayne

NJIT combined for a .452 hitting percentage behind Jens Feldthus and Alvaro Gimeno who combined for 24 kills and 14 digs in the Highlanders' 3-0 sweep over No. 11 Purdue Fort Wayne in non-conference men's volleyball action at NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Thursday evening.
Durga Misra
January 21, 2020

Engineering Prof. Misra Named IEEE Fellow, Stops Transistors From Leaking Energy

Durgamadhab Misra is the newest member of NJIT's Newark College of Engineering to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Misra won the prestigious award for his ongoing research on preventing transistors from leaking electrons. Every time a transistor leaks an electron, it wastes battery life or hurts performance.
William Rapp, MTSM professor, outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he presented at the bank's 32nd Annual Economic Outlook Symposium
January 21, 2020

Management Professor On a Roll, Receives 6th Economic Forecasting Award

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has once again lauded William V. Rapp, the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Trade and Business and director of the Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management, for his economic forecasting acumen.
January 21, 2020

Biological Sciences Faculty Member Brooke Flammang Featured in Scientific American Podcast

Federated Department of Biological Sciences faculty member Brooke Flammang was featured on an episode of the podcast "60-Second Science" hosted by Scientific American. Dr. Flammang and colleagues recently discovered a previously unknown receptor in remora – fish that are uniquely adapted to hitchhiking on other marine organisms such as whales and sharks. This receptor, previously only known in platypus and echidnas, allows remoras to sense touch and likely aids in their ability to affix to other animals.
January 21, 2020

Men's Volleyball Returns to the Win Column After 3-1 Victory at Lindenwood

The NJIT men's volleyball team returned back to the win column, behind sophomore Roque Nido's double-double (38 assists, 10 digs) and three players reaching double-figure kills in the Highlanders' 3-1 victory at Lindenwood Saturday evening in men's volleyball non-conference action at Hyland Arena. NJIT (2-2) dropped its first set of the match, 25-20, but bounced in the next three frames, 25-17, 26-24 and 25-20 to earn the 3-1 victory on the road.  
January 21, 2020

Highlanders Use Strong Defense to Roll to Third-Straight ASUN Win

The NJIT men's basketball team won its third-straight ASUN Conference game, defeating visiting Kennessaw State 66-48 at the WEC on Saturday. The win marked the first time the Highlanders (6-12, 3-2 ASUN) have held a Division I opponent to less than 50 points since a 55-44 victory over UMass-Lowell on December 7, 2013. Kennesaw State (1-17, 0-5 ASUN) shot just 30.9% (17-for-55) in the loss on Saturday.
January 16, 2020

NJIT Scientists Measure the Evolving Energy of a Solar Flare's Explosive First Minutes

Toward the end of 2017, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun’s surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic energy produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather conditions at Earth. These were the first flares to be captured, in their moment-by-moment progression, by NJIT’s then recently opened Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) radio telescope. 
January 23, 2020

Science Olympiad Spotlights STEM Know-how of More Than 700 Pre-College Students

They came, they competed and, at day’s end, they convened, to learn the results of the 2020 New Jersey Science Olympiad, hosted on campus Jan. 6 by NJIT for the 14th consecutive year. Hundreds of students making up 43 teams from high schools and middle schools from throughout the Garden State put their knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to the test in 19 hands-on activities.
January 15, 2020

Discovery Reveals How Remora Fishes Know When to Hitch a Ride Aboard Their Hosts

Remoras are among the most successful marine hitchhikers, thanks to powerful suction discs that allow them to stay tightly fastened to the bodies of sharks, whales and other hosts despite incredible drag forces while traveling through the ocean. But how do these suckerfish sense the exact moment when they must “stick their landing” and board their speedy hosts in the first place?  A team of biologists at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Friday Harbor Labs at University of Washington (FHL-UW) and The George Washington University (GWU) now offers an answer. 
National Mentoring Month logo
January 16, 2020

Constructive Counsel: The Merits of Peer Mentoring

Patrycja Ptak, a second-year architecture student at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, vividly recalls the uncertainty she felt and challenges she faced navigating the college pathway — which is why she decided to become a mentor through Strive for College, an online platform that provides resources and support to aspiring and current first-generation college students, and with which NJIT is a strategic partner. 
January 13, 2020

Brinson, Gibbs Lead the Way as NJIT Ends UNF's 10-Game Home Winning Streak

Junior San Antonio Brinson set the tone with a program single-game record 37 points and senior captain Shyquan Gibbs took over down the stretch as the NJIT men's basketball team defeated North Florida 78-66 at UNF Arena.
January 13, 2020

NJIT Sweeps No. 12 USC at 2020 AVCA Showcase

NJIT hit an impressive .442 paced by junior outside hitter Alvaro Gimeno, who registered a match-best 11 kills as the Highlanders swept No. 12 USC, 3-0, Saturday evening in the 2020 AVCA Showcase hosted by Geroge Mason in the RAC. NJIT (1-1) won in straight sets 25-20, 25-20 and 25-17.  In the first two sets, as a team, the Highlanders hit over .500 and combined for a .200 hitting percentage to seal the match in the third stanza.
NJIT campus
January 14, 2020

NJIT Online Programs Among the Best, Says U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for “Best Online Programs” are out, and NJIT realized gains in four graduate-study areas: business, information technology (IT), engineering and MBA. The rankings are the result of extensive assessments over the past year of more than 1,600 online degree programs nationwide, the highest number evaluated to date.
January 7, 2020

NJIT-Stryker Alumni Club Helps High Schools Kick Off New Season of First Robotics

The NJIT-Stryker Alumni Club helped local high schools kick off the new season of First Robotics on January 4, 2020.  First Robotics is a national organization that creates the requirements for robotic designs for high school teams where they build a robot and go against other regional high schools in a challenge competition event.  Stryker is a now a Mid-Atlantic First Robotics regional sponsor.  Stryker is funding and mentoring two N.J. high school teams; International High School in Paterson and Science Park High School in Newark.
January 6, 2020

NJIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Presents: Tech Talks Video Series

 The NJIT Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), in junction with the NJIT Media Relations and Digital Strategy office, is proud to presents a brand-new video series: TECH TALKS. TECH TALKS is a series focused on highlighting Highlander student-athletes and discussing different topics that are important to student-athletes.
January 2, 2020

Businessman, Entrepreneur and Agile Thought Leader: Donald J. Reifer '69

Donald J. Reifer ’69 is recognized as an agile thought leader and a leading figure in the fields of software engineering and management. He has more than 40 years of management experience in industry, academia and government. He is skilled in program/project/product management, development, metrics, measurement and change management. He has led major agile enterprisewide initiatives, headed process improvement efforts, built businesses, managed major programs and changed the way organizations did their business.
December 31, 2019

Top This! Alumnus Vatsal Shah is "Young Engineer of the Year" for 2019

Vatsal Shah '08H, M.S. '09, Ph.D. '14, a civil engineer with Mott MacDonald who oversees the design and construction of foundations – for wind and solar farms, wastewater treatment plants, tunnels and bridges, among others – in starkly diverse landscapes from the East Coast to Texas, is the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) “Young Engineer of the Year” for 2019.
NJIT's Center for Pre-College Programs received federal funding for its Upward Bound program.
January 2, 2020

Grant Will Help Support Greater Number of Local Pre-College Students

Since 1924, Victoria Foundation has awarded more than $300 million in grants to benefit Newark. One of the country’s oldest private foundations, Victoria dedicates itself to improving the lives of children and families in Newark, and protecting water resources and preserving open spaces throughout the Garden State.

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