Students and faculty of NJIT’s String Ensemble have released a digital production of their annual Winter Concert Series performance celebrating internationally-inspired music and diversity within the university community.
Vrushti Dalal, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Sayreville, won the new University Innovation Challenge, a pitch-style competition sponsored by the Guardian Life Insurance Company.
For young entrepreneurs, pitch competitions are a popular way to present concepts, hone essential business skills and make industry connections, which can help transform their creativity and talent into viable, real-world business ventures.
Yashwee J. Kothari, an Albert Dorman Honors College and computer science student from Parsippany, placed first among student competitors at this year’s New Business Model Competition for her innovative work supporting patients living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The annual competition was hosted virtually by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Acceleration Center Dec. 7, marking its twelfth year.
NJIT President Joel S. Bloom joined a panel discussion about statewide innovation, and received an award for public service, at the New Jersey Business and Industry Association's virtual Public Policy Forum on December 1.
A team of NJIT entrepreneurs was among those recognized by TiE Global, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship around the world, at the organization’s second annual TiE University Pitch Competition this fall, which included 13 teams representing TiE chapters from India, Israel, UAE, Israel, the U.S. and Canada.
Highlanders won the top three prizes at November's HackNJIT competition, with software allowing friends to remotely jam together, video chat with speech translations and even detect pneumonia in chest X-rays.
The annual event was virtual this year due to COVID-19, which for a hackathon tends to mean fewer hardware hacks, as those require in-person work, and instead focused more on software in the form of mobile and web applications.
Nicole Campos, a freshman in the Albert Dorman Honors College pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at Hillier College, started on her path to NJIT even before she got to high school. Her interest in architecture started when she was a kid through a curiosity of meticulous exploration in every house she entered. When it came to choosing a high school, she applied to the closest high school with specialized programs like engineering.
NJIT’s inaugural inductees into its new Colton Society represent an array of disciplines, including engineering, architecture, finance, education and technology. Each, however, shares something remarkable in common: lifetime contributions to the university that exceed half a million dollars.
Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology.
In the first of a series of events honoring its 25th anniversary, the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT held a live, online celebration. Reflecting on the anniversary of the college that he endowed, NJIT alumnus Albert Dorman revisited his remarks from its inauguration, and they are as relevant today as they were in 1995 — perhaps even more so.
