Albert Dorman Honors College

NJIT Undergrad Earns Acclaim Abroad for Antibiotic Waste Research

Monday, September 30, 2024
Biochemistry major Jonas Muller ’27 has earned plaudits abroad this summer after unveiling surprising findings on the environmental impact of antibiotic drugs during a poster competition at the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) annual conference — one of the world's premier events in drug safety research. Muller recently traveled to this year’s conference site of Berlin to deliver his poster presentation, "Climate Impact of Intravenous versus Oral Antibiotics: A Comparative Waste Assessment," which was judged as one of 20 winners from more than 1,200 posters...

NJIT Ranks No. 84, Continues Rise in US News and World Report National Rankings

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s standing in national rankings continues to rise with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 84 among U.S. universities — improving two places from last year — in the 2025 edition of its Best Colleges list. The latest ranking extends NJIT’s upward trajectory — climbing 19 spots since 2022 — and supports the findings of other publications that rank U.S. universities, which emphasize value and return on investment. This year U.S. News revised its criteria to place greater emphasis on student outcomes, like social mobility, and includes other...

New Semester, New Opportunities for First-Year Newark Natives at NJIT

Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Back-to-school buzz has returned to campus, and with it has come the latest wave of promising first-year students hailing from NJIT’s home city of Newark. A growing number of these Newark natives are poised for success in their first semester thanks to several initiatives launched in recent years, which have helped grow the city’s young STEM talent at NJIT — including the Forensic Science Initiative (FSI), the Math Success Initiative (MSI) and Mayor’s Honors Scholar Program. Here, we catch up with a few Class of 2028 students as they take on the next chapter of their academic journey...

NJIT Computing Student Part of Winning Team in International Competition

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sophomore computer science major Hari Sah was on the gold medal team at this year’s Project/Problem-Based Learning competition, hosted by National Taipei University of Technology, where students from New Jersey Institute of Technology brandished their skills against peers from around the world. Sah and three fellow Highlanders from the Albert Dorman Honors College— data science major Haripriya Kemisetti, biomedical engineering major Aliza Mujahid and mechanical engineering technology major An’Jolae Seabrooks — were each assigned to different teams, composed of international students who...

NJIT Devotes Over $10 Million in New Funds for Push in Artificial Intelligence

Monday, September 16, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is launching a new, $10+ million initiative that will significantly advance the university’s strength in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and position NJIT to become a leader in both AI research and application in higher education. This augments already significant existing academic and research activity in AI and related programs. In 2023 alone, NJIT research related to AI totaled nearly $60 million. This new effort will leverage the university’s extensive expertise in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and...

NJIT Celebrates Enrollment Milestone After Revamped Convocation Ceremony

Friday, September 6, 2024
The 2024 academic year kicked off with a Convocation that had a different spin. With the participation of DJ Ricky Bonds, NJIT’s Jazz Band ‘Elementals,’ Highland Dancers and bagpipers and even a special edition of Family Feud NJIT-style, the university’s incoming class received an upbeat welcome. The Class of 2028 is already making a historical impact at NJIT. Projected enrollment for the fall semester stands at more than 12,800, including the largest-ever undergraduate cohort at over 9,800 students. The incoming class is also among the most diverse in history, with 46% identifying as an...

NJIT Celebrates Largest Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her device was “all the women who can't get easy access to mammograms and try to maybe build something, or start to build something that can help improve that problem.” Her device will use piezoelectric polymers, which generate charge in response to mechanical stress, and have much potential for...

NJIT Renames College of Science and Liberal Arts, Honoring Historic Gift from Alumnus Jordan Hu

Monday, August 5, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has announced the renaming of its College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a former member of the university’s Board of Trustees. Hu’s contribution marks the single largest philanthropic commitment ever made by an NJIT graduate to the university, and will provide crucial funding to JHCSLA that will enhance STEM education and research across campus, and open a range of...

NJIT Earns Top Rating in Money's List of the Best Colleges in America

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) earned the top rating in Money’s 2024 analysis of the Best Colleges in America. With five stars, NJIT tied Princeton University as the highest-rated university in New Jersey and matched STEM schools like MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology. The rating marks an improvement from last year, when NJIT earned 4 ½ stars. In 2023, Money shifted from a numerical ranking of the top universities and colleges in the U.S. to individual ratings, based on factors such as graduation rates, cost of attendance, financial...

NJIT's Neel Patil, Hoops Fan and Double STEM Major, Will Work at FanDuel

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Neel Patil, a new graduate in computer science and applied mathematics, is following his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers like All-Star baseball outfielder Jim Edmonds and broadcaster Rich Eisen into the sports business. Patil will be a software engineer at FanDuel starting in July. It’s a perfect fit for the diehard basketball fan, who said he’s never made money from betting on his favorite NBA team, the Boston Celtics, because he always picks the over — he can’t stand to admit that they might not dominate, even when it’s a fiscally irrational decision. His hoops passion began as a...

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