Albert Dorman Honors College

NJIT's Second Elementary STEM Challenge Conquered by 30 Local Schools

Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Wise Wolves, a team of fifth-graders from Morristown's Unity Charter School, won this year's Elementary STEM Challenge at an awards ceremony in the Campus Center ballroom on Monday. The event provides scientific and technical opportunities to students including girls, minorities, and underserved communities that may lack resources. It's organized by the NJIT Center for Pre-College Programs and began last year as a virtual conference, due to the COVID pandemic, moving back on campus this year. "The Center has, for many years, held STEM competitions and challenges for middle and high...

Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! [[{"fid":"14701","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]] Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's...

NJIT Reaffirmed As An Elite Research University, Retains R1 Classification

Thursday, February 3, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has reaffirmed its status among the nation’s most elite and productive research institutions by once again achieving an R1 status — the highest designation — by the Carnegie Classification. First published in 1973, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is the primary measure used by rating organizations and governmental agencies to describe colleges and universities. Institutions that grant doctoral degrees are divided into three tiers that represent their level of research activity in terms of research and development...

Management Alum's Startup App Offers New Approach to Make Friends and Date

Friday, January 28, 2022
Business school alumnus Tomi Antoljak wants to do for online relationships what NBC's The Voice did for singing competitions. People using his new mobile app, Hangoo, talk first — and then only get to see each other if there's a match. "My belief really is that voice is the more authentic way to communicate," said Antoljak, who in 2019 earned a B.S. in business with a concentration in financial technology from NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. He was also a member of Albert Dorman Honors College. Antoljak grew up in Croatia, was recruited to the University of Nebraska as a...

NSF Hub, With NJIT as Member, Now Taking Applications to Commercialize Research

Monday, January 10, 2022
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week following its announcement last summer, as applications are now open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the challenges of creating successful startups and entrepreneurial ventures based on scientific and technological discoveries, kicks off Feb. 28 and runs through March 23 online. Funded with a 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation, the Hub brings together an initial eight of the region’s top...

New Jersey Institute of Technology Names Dr. Teik C. Lim as University's Ninth President

Wednesday, January 5, 2022
The Board of Trustees of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Teik C. Lim as NJIT’s ninth president following a national search and a unanimous vote of the Board on January 5, 2022. President-elect Lim, who also will be appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, will begin his NJIT tenure on July 1, 2022. “The appointment of Dr. Lim as NJIT’s next president is the result of his emergence from an exceptionally talented pool of candidates,” said Robert Cohen, chair of NJIT’s Board of Trustees. “Teik has incredibly...

Computing Student Applied Neural Networks to Sound Waves as AMD Intern

Monday, December 20, 2021
Bhargav Samineni loves applied math, and there are few better ways to see math in action than working on scientific computing problems with a mentor from a chip company like AMD. Samineni interned last summer at the University of California/Los Angeles - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, under guidance from an AMD scientific computing engineer in the application of neural networks to acoustic wave propagation, as an exercise in machine learning and a demonstration of the company's graphics processing units. The NJIT senior from East Brunswick, an Albert Dorman Honors College...

Surprise Finding: Zebrafish Break Out Into 'Panic Wave' Mosh Pits to Social Distance

Thursday, December 16, 2021
Social distancing is nothing new in the time of COVID. But new research of the well-studied zebrafish (Danio rerio) has captured a previously undocumented behavior of the animal that takes such measures to the extreme — and the end result resembles the frenzy of a circle pit typically associated with heavy metal concert-goers. In the journal Frontiers in Physics, a student-faculty team of biologists and mathematicians at New Jersey Institute of Technology have described a collective social-avoidance behavior in larval zebrafish that occurs when their small,...

Samuel Carlos Wins Boren Scholarship Award to Study in Taiwan

Friday, December 3, 2021
The world is at Samuel Carlos’ fingertips. Since coming NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College out of high school with an associates degree in math and computer science, he’s interned at Amazon, Google, and Facebook. He’s since added a third major - history with a focus on the history of computer science and is now planning to study Mandarin and Southeast Asian technology and politics at National Taiwan University in the spring and summer of 2022.  Carlos is the recipient of the 2021 National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship, which funds students to study...

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Method Wins GSA Research Showcase

Thursday, December 2, 2021
NJIT's annual Graduate Student Association Research Day returned to the campus this week, after being cancelled last year because of COVID, with 39 students who are pursuing doctoral and master's degrees showcasing their cutting-edge research on topics such as the pandemic, climate, transportation and cybersecurity. The winner was Aida Lopez Ruiz, a chemical engineering doctoral student from Spain, who is helping breast cancer patients by putting chemotherapy drugs inside microscopic bits of platinum which only become toxic when they reach tumors. That way the drugs do not harm healthy...

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