Albert Dorman Honors College

Planting With Purpose: Honors Students Foster Biodiversity on Campus

Friday, October 25, 2019
Equipped with shovels and spades, and tape measures and topsoil, first-year Dorman Scholars gathered behind Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) on a sunny weekend morning in early October to plant a variety of native species: New Jersey tea, blazing star, New England aster, lady fern, butterfly milkweed and coneflower. They were beautifying the ADHC grounds to be sure, but more importantly, they were continuing a project started by last year’s first-years to increase biodiversity on the NJIT campus. The project is part of the Honors First-Year Seminar. “Biodiversity has many different...

NJIT Students Come in 1st With Election-Inspired Hackathon Project

Friday, October 4, 2019
It was a timely inspiration that garnered two Honors College students a first-place hackathon win. With the upcoming election season expected to be fraught with doctored videos of famous figures aiming to influence voters — known as deepfakes — Aarati Srikumar and George Aboudiwan, along with two teammates from other schools, developed a web-based solution to detect such deception and provide “a level of protection and reality for users.” Dubbed DeFake, the web browser extension and application employs machine learning to analyze and determine if online videos are fake or have been...

Honors Faculty Fellows Program Doubles Its Offerings in Year 2

Friday, September 27, 2019
A unique program that packages distinctive coursework with diverse experiences, by connecting NJIT students and faculty with leading corporations, governmental agencies and private donors, has expanded as it heads into its second year. Honors Faculty Fellows will feature twice as many classes and three additional Fellows during the Spring 2020 semester, all made possible by generous gifts to the university’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC), which administers the program. Returning fellows Michel Boufadel, professor of civil engineering and director of NJIT’s Center for Natural...

Getting the Job: NJIT Students Share Their Career Fair Know-how

Monday, September 16, 2019
According to NJIT Career Development Services’ most recent annual report, almost one-fifth of undergrads from the Class of 2018 who reported full-time employment indicated an NJIT career fair as their source. That figure certainly demonstrates the value of students attending the fair, to both mingle with prospective employers and leave a lasting impression on recruiters. But vital to the mix in landing a position is preparedness. With the Fall 2019 Career Fair just around the corner — Wednesday, Oct. 2, at NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center — these Highlanders, who scored internships...

Already Distinguished, Twin Sisters Are Ready for Further Success at NJIT

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Samara and Samantha Augustin — freshmen at Ying Wu College of Computing and Newark College of Engineering, respectively — are among the first recipients of the full scholarship, a partnership of NJIT, the city of Newark and the Newark Board of Education to create a pipeline between Newark Public Schools and NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College. Graduates of Science Park High School, the Augustins were involved there in a variety of extracurricular...

NJIT Ranks in Top 2% Nationwide in College Salary Report by Payscale

Friday, August 30, 2019
Payscale has released its 2019 College Salary Report and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has placed #53 out of over 4,000 colleges and universities across the U.S. in the mid-career salary rankings. In addition, NJIT is #1 for state schools in mid-career salary. “NJIT students are in high demand and our alumni enjoy remarkable success, because we specialize in preparing graduates to thrive in what is unquestionable a tech economy,” said NJIT President Joel S. Bloom. “Every major global industry, at its core, is driven by technological advancement. That’s why our students average...

#NJITSummer Success

Friday, August 23, 2019
    As the #NJITSummer comes to a close, so are the internships and research experiences that began just a few short months ago after school let out. The NJIT staff and faculty are proud to see our fellow Highlanders succeed through their internships and real-world experiences. Here are some of our Highlanders that had a successful  #NJITSummer!   Madagascar [[{"fid":"3484","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"NJIT Student Chloe Jelley Using Microscope","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":...

Mayor's Honors Scholars Program Announces Recipients of Three Scholarship Awards

Friday, June 28, 2019
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka officially announced the three students selected as Mayor’s Honors Scholars from the high school class of 2019 on June 28, 2019 in NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC). In his introductory remarks, Bloom described how students enrolled at the ADHC have a wealth of opportunities to optimize their own educational path. “You have a palette here that you can fill however you want to proceed,” he said.   Natasha Rogers, Interim Deputy Mayor/Director of Economic and Housing Development and COO of the City of...

Reflections from the Class of 2019

Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Meet the 2019 gonfalon carriers! The six seniors chosen to represent their schools at NJIT's Commencement reminisce about life on campus, while they begin to envisage what lies beyond.   Newark College of Engineering Olivia Hadlaw Major: Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics Hometown: South Amboy, N.J. Next up: Design and analysis engineer in the Boeing Company’s Space and Security unit in St. Louis “I’m interested in sensors. For my senior project, I worked with two friends to design a device...

Unprecedented Success for NJIT Students in National Scholarship and Fellowship Competitions

Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were achieved: For the first time, an NJIT student earned the David L. Boren Scholarship, which seeks to build a workforce of national security professionals with critical language skills, and two NJIT students were awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, for undergraduate research, in the same year...

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