There’s a formula for summer fun. For most undergraduates, it includes shore town getaways, hikes, Netflix, and general frolicking. At NJIT, research is the missing variable. It’s become a summer tradition, as much part of the culture as pizza and bagels. Undergraduates at NJIT enjoy a high degree of interdisciplinary research training throughout the year, but summer is a time to hone skills that can turn research into real world solutions. Several undergraduate research, innovation, and design (URI) programs are at students’ fingertips and the eight-week Honors Summer Research Institute (…

Facebook, Merck, Brown University, the University of Minnesota, Venture for America and the U.S. Air Force are among the destinations of standouts from the Class of 2021 at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here’s a closer look at seven graduates.  Roberto Adamson: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule  The electrical engineering major from Costa Rica will pursue a master’s in the same discipline at ETH – a STEM powerhouse in Zurich, Switzerland – after studying abroad in France. Parth Agrawal: Venture For…

Three leaders at New Jersey Institute of Technology are featured in ROI-NJ’s annual recognition of education influencers, including President Joel S. Bloom, who was named Influencer of the Year. The other honorees were Provost and Senior Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek and Simon Nynens, CEO of New Jersey Innovation Institute, an NJIT corporation that spurs business growth. In addition, ROI-NJ recognized real estate investor and developer Paul Profeta for endowing the launch of two new education and research centers at NJIT: the Paul V. Profeta Foundation Real Estate Technology, Design…

Society consumes too much energy. Industry takes an especially large slice of the energy pie, and Afrida Kabir, a process engineer and 2016 NJIT chemical engineering graduate, is heading to Finland to study technologies that would curb industry’s energy appetite. Kabir recently joined the Advanced Energy Solutions master’s program at Aalto University on a full-ride scholarship to study drying processes, methods, and designs to make drying more efficient and sustainable. “The drying process is nothing more than taking the liquid out of a product,” said Kabir. “What happens in the process is…

Countless hours of research and preparation were on display at the Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium as 134 students presented 108 projects to a group of peers, NJIT faculty and URI External Advisory Board members. The board selected three top project presentations for the Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Awards, named for the late educator and engineer who supported NJIT’s Interdisciplinary Design Studio, TechQuest Innovation and URI programs. The first prize of $1,000 was awarded to Simone Bishara, a McNair scholar majoring in biochemistry, for her project, “…

Dhiraj Shah, a transformational business leader, high growth investor and passionate entrepreneur who founded global IT services company Avaap, has joined NJIT’s Board of Trustees. Shah is executive chairman of Avaap, a technology and management consultancy that provides software services to help organizations modernize and transform their operations for the digital world. Its clients are concentrated in healthcare, higher education and government. Shah founded the Edison-based firm in 2006. The new trustee — one of two appointed this summer — has strong ties to NJIT, as an alumnus and…

Ayushi Sangoi ’20, a Ph.D. candidate who uses neuroimaging and eye movement-tracking equipment to discover connections between brain injuries and eye disorders was awarded a highly competitive graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. The biomedical engineer is the first NJIT graduate student to receive one. Sangoi was among 28 awardees, selected from a field of 336 applicants, who were commended for their academic achievements, campus leadership and service, and anticipated contributions to their fields. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend. “It’s wonderful…

Daniela Bushiri, NJIT Class of 2021, has not been in the U.S. for long – about five years. In that time, she graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in chemical engineering, a minor in Applied Mathematics, and is now taking her talents to Columbia University in the fall where she will research alternative energy in pursuit of a Ph.D. She is an Albert Dorman Scholar, a McNair Scholar, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a member of the National Society of Black Engineers. Bushiri moved with her family from Congo to South Africa in 2000, then to Elizabeth, N.J. in 2016.…

Parth Agrawal, a 2021 biomedical engineering graduate and Albert Dorman Honors scholar, was accepted to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. But he’s not going – right away, at least. He deferred admission for a two-year fellowship with Venture For America, a nonprofit organization that trains recent college graduates to work in startups in cities across the country. Anyone who knows Parth shouldn’t be surprised at this decision. His ingenuity shined through the darkness of the pandemic when the Albert Dorman Honors College issued a call for design submission for face shields, in response…

3.49 is not a baseball ERA, basketball steals per game, volleyball block average, or any other athletic statistic measured of the Highlanders this spring semester. Rather, it is their impressive cumulative grade point average. This semester marks the 25th straight that Highlander student athletes have held above a 3.0 GPA—a streak extending over 12 years.  Throughout this time, many obstacles stood in their path to academic excellence: the move from Division III to Division I, several conference changes (including a stint as the only DI school competing without a conference affiliation…