Albert Dorman Honors College

NJIT Undergraduate Researchers Secure Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Monday, April 15, 2024
From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Danna Valentina Sanchez Hernandez and Owen West — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as among the country’s most prestigious for STEM undergraduates pursuing research careers. The NJIT Goldwater Scholars represent two of 10 statewide, and 438 total students across the United States represented by 227 institutions. Goldwater Scholars each earn a prize of up to $7,500 per year for up to two...

NJIT Aims to Be an Innovation Nexus Under Its New Strategic Plan

Monday, April 8, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology aims to be a nexus of innovation that embraces new tech, commercializes groundbreaking research, leverages its diversity and tackles global environmental and socioeconomic challenges under a new strategic plan that extends through 2030. The plan, NJIT Makes An Innovation Nexus, identifies six priorities, spells out the university’s mission to be a leader in research, innovation and entrepreneurship, and reaffirms its core values, including collaboration, social responsibility, diversity and sustainability. The priorities define student and faculty...

Chief Engineer of Port Authority NY/NJ Rizwan Baig Visits NJIT

Thursday, March 21, 2024
Rizwan Baig, chief engineer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, visited NJIT to give a presentation on building the 21st-century transportation system. His talk, covering the architectural, design, construction and asset management aspects of the agency, highlighted the agency’s plan to revitalize infrastructure that is essential to economic growth and vitality. Baig is a transportation industry leader with over 35 years of extensive engineering leadership experience. In 1990, he began his career with the Port Authority as a junior engineer, and now serves as the chief...

'Green Brick City' Selected as Winning Proposal in Honors College Biodiversity Initiative

Friday, March 1, 2024
NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which six student-led proposals were presented to renovate an area next to Kupfrian Hall.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab (UEL), ADHC, the Real Estate Development and Capital Operations (REDCO) and the Office of Sustainability to team up together to make NJIT’s campus into a more sustainable and biodiverse community. “Service is at the heart of what we do here in the Honors College, all the scholars are required to do 60 hours of service a...

Ingenuity of NJIT's Budding Engineers Spotlighted at NCE Showcase

Friday, February 23, 2024
Recently, the ingenuity of Newark College of Engineering’s brightest first-year students was on full display at the 2024 NCE First Year Engineering Design Showcase. Forty-two teams featured in this year’s showcase to present a wide range of innovative engineering projects originating from their fall semester introductory engineering design course — from prosthetic limbs and exoskeleton knee braces built at NJIT’s Makerspace, to traffic light clocks for improving intersections on campus, temperature-controlled fans, home security systems and more. The friendly competition, which first...

NJIT Featured on Amazon Prime Video Series 'The College Tour en Español'

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology is featured in the premiere season of “The College Tour en Español,” a new series from Emmy-nominated producers, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hosted by Lorena Segura, “The College Tour en Español” travels the country, showcasing colleges and universities through the unique lens of Spanish-speaking students on today's campuses. Each episode offers an intimate view of college life, allowing the entire Spanish-speaking population worldwide a chance to explore colleges. NJIT’s episode of "The College Tour" travels back to the Brick City —...

Remarkable Sibling Duo Volunteer at Saint Michael's While Attending NJIT

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
This story is republished with permission from Saint Michael's Medical Center By the time she was in seventh grade, Pooja Datir’s teachers ran out of grade-level material to give her. Her teachers suggested she start taking college courses. Her brother Rohit maxed out in fifth grade and also started taking college courses. Both graduated high school in three years while simultaneously earning five associate’s degrees from the community college near their home in California. Today, the remarkable students are Albert Dorman Honors College scholars at New Jersey Institute of...

Middle and High School Students Compete in Regional Science Olympiad at NJIT

Friday, January 19, 2024
Dozens of teams of middle and high school students came to New Jersey Institute of Technology last week for a regional round of the annual New Jersey Science Olympiad hands-on learning competition. NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, along with the university’s Newark College of Engineering, served as the event hosts for about 700 academically excited children. They competed in events spanning topics such as anatomy, ecology, engineering and technical writing. Max Randall, an 8th-grader from Montclair’s Glenfield Middle School, said this was his third year participating in the...

Registration Open for NJIT's Spring Career Fair

Friday, January 19, 2024
NJIT’s spring career fair is right around the corner and registration is now open for students on the Handshake platform. Career Development Services biannual career fair has become one of the most anticipated events for students. The fall semester fair, held last September, was the largest-ever participation: 3,300 students and alumni and 240 companies packed into the WEC and Naimoli Center. The spring fair, now scheduled for March 4 from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., is shaping up to be another packed house. Students are encouraged to register now for the upcoming fair and for pre-fair events...

Social Media Star, Milad Mirg, Explains His NJIT Connections and Work Ethic

Thursday, January 18, 2024
Milad Mirghahari, a social media influencer known publicly as Milad Mirg, has more than six million followers each on TikTok and YouTube and is a first-generation NJIT student, Albert Dorman Honors College member and computer science major. Just like NASA astronaut Wally Schirra and Chicago Cubs pitcher Mark Leiter Jr., Mirghahari took skills honed in Newark and excelled in public. He is known not for orbiting the planet or throwing baseballs, but for making short videos that depict him trying different jobs, usually in the restaurant or retail fields. Mirghahari, his brother and a...

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