Albert Dorman Honors College

Princeton Review Ranks NJIT Among Top 'Colleges That Pay You Back'

Monday, February 12, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price according to The Princeton Review®. The education services company profiles NJIT in the recently published 2018 edition of its annual guide, Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. In order to make the list, institutions must demonstrate a strong academic program and affordability, and offer strong opportunities for career prospects after graduation. A return on...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Resolving Complex Fluid Flows

Monday, January 22, 2018
From large-scale weather or environmental disaster predictions and efficient design of vehicles and power generators, to understanding how bacteria propel themselves and how nutrients are delivered to different organs in our body at the cell level — researchers will need to find new ways of studying the complex flow of liquids, gases and plasmas that drive or characterize intricate climatic, transportation and biological systems. In his upcoming Technology and Society Forum presentation, Joseph Katz will demonstrate how today’s latest multidimensional high-speed flow visualization...

NJIT Joins Urban League of Essex County to Teach Kids How to Code

Thursday, January 11, 2018
Come Jan. 20, 2018, 20 middle school students from Sussex Avenue Renew School in Newark will begin a free program to learn basic coding language and hear from guest speakers about coding careers. The initiative, called Newark Kids Code, is a pilot partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Urban League of Essex County. The program also is a joint venture within the NJIT community, calling upon the resources of the Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP), Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) and Albert Dorman Honors College. CPCP is coordinating the program, YWCC...

2017 at NJIT: A Look Back

Friday, January 5, 2018
From ribbon-cuttings and rankings to appointments and awards and more, this past year saw many milestones and achievements at NJIT — with promise for a fruitful 2018. Here are just some of the university community's noteworthy accomplishments and happenings in 2017. JANUARY Academic and student-support partnership established with Ocean County College College of Architecture and Design’s Motion Capture Studio goes completely online Craig Gotsman named new dean of Ying Wu College of Computing NJIT ranked a Top 10 college nationwide with great career services FEBRUARY...

Students Search for Insights into the Brain and Behavior

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Learning is very much a hands-on experience for Nicole Andanar, Hannah Gattuso, Yasmine Ghattas and David Liptsyn, NJIT undergraduates enrolled in Albert Dorman Honors College who are working with Associate Professor Eric Fortune, Department of Biological Sciences, to explore the unknowns of how the brain uses sensory information to influence behavior. In Fortune’s Laboratory in the Central King Building, they’re advancing research that engages them, in a very personal way, with experiments involving fish that navigate by means of electric fields and birds that sing incredibly complex duets...

NJIT Alum Addresses Health Care Needs of the LGBTQ Community

Wednesday, June 14, 2017
A Community in Crisis During his sophomore year while interning at Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s statewide advocacy and education organization for the LGBTQ community, Liem Ho ’17 would often overhear people calling in to give testimonials and ask for doctor recommendations. Inspired by a database journalism seminar he had recently attended, and using a list provided by GSE, Ho came up with a resourceful idea to create a service that helps connect patients with LGBTQ-friendly health care providers. “There are a lot of people who don’t have proper health care and who are...

Distinguished Gentleman

Thursday, January 12, 2017
For over a century, NJIT has produced ambitious leaders. Highlanders are encouraged to be boundary-pushing citizens with a strong sense of global awareness, ushered into the professional world to make a name for themselves. But for distinguished alumnus Ying Wu, the path to success led right back to where he started. On May 16, NJIT trustees, overseers, Provost Fadi Deek, College of Computing Sciences (CCS) Dean Marek Runsinkiewicz, colleagues, students and friends assembled in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, where President Joel S. Bloom christened CCS the Ying Wu College...

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