Albert Dorman Honors College

NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College held its First-Year Seminar Biodiversity Initiatives colloquium, in which four student-led proposals were presented to renovate the space near the Summit Street parking garage.  These student-driven initiatives allow for the Urban Ecology Lab, 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 community. “One of the very cool things about this project is that it helps us as a university become a more sustainable community because we...

Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Alvarez was one of 169 inventors from 110 research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutions worldwide inducted into the Academy in 2022 in a class that includes members of the National Academy of Sciences and Nobel Laureates. Together, they hold more than 5,000 issued U.S. patents. With her election, there are now...

NJIT students Aliya Laliwala and Mrunmayi Joshi have been selected to be part of this year’s Governor’s STEM Scholars class, which includes 128 scholars from 20 New Jersey counties — the program’s largest cohort ever. The Governor’s STEM Scholars program was created to engage the next generation of research and innovation leaders in the state’s vast STEM economy early. Sixty-four percent of the class identify as female and 83% as students of color. When they graduate in May 2023, they will join an alumni cohort of over 700 Scholars. Laliwala is a freshman majoring in computer science,...

When you visit the rooftop at the Campus Center, students are now invited to relax and enjoy a holistic healing experience from the Newark Rooftop Therapy Garden.  Students at NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College are working toward creating a greener, more sustainable urban environment in keeping with the university’s broader push toward sustainability, as it’s a core value in the university’s strategic plan, “Building on a Strong Foundation — NJIT 2025,” and has shaped operations for years. The sustainability push has yielded results with national accolades from The Princeton...