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Biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez and her team of engineers, game designers, artists and clinicians are finalists for a coveted international award from industry leaders in virtual reality for their vision therapy platform.

Faced with a formidable list of nominees for the annual Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, the Board of Overseers opted this year for its own brand of novelty and innovation: the prize committee picked three. The sector-spanning winners, all at the forefront of their fields, included a solar physicist, a chemical engineer and a neurobiologist.

Please support one of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) pioneering researchers in her pursuit of a highly competitive award for work on concussion diagnosis and VISION therapy. Voting ends Tuesday at 9 a.m.

Before Jonathan Lewis arrived at NJIT to study biomedical engineering, he had already earned five college credits — two after completing the university’s Management 190 course and three after finishing its Fundamentals of Engineering and Design 101. He was then a student at St. Benedict’s Prep, participating in the Center for Pre-College Programs’ (CPCP) Academy College Courses for High School Students.

College Factual, a leading source of higher education analytics and insights, has ranked NJIT in the top 15 percent nationwide in the overall “Best Institution” category for 2019, a 61-place jump compared to 2018 rankings.

NJIT is now ranked 251 out of a 1,779 institutions nationwide, and 5 out of 33 in N.J., a jump of three positions in the state.

The “Best Institution” category looks at several specific factors to generate their score, including: student body caliber, educational resources, degree completion and post-graduation earnings.

The Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) program at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) now ranks second in the nation, according to College Factual, an outcomes-based data analytics and research company.

NJIT jumped six places from last year, landing behind Georgia Tech (1) and ahead of MIT (3), on the list of the 206 programs evaluated. The university's CEE program ranked in the top 20 in numerous areas, including education for veterans, popularity and graduates’ earnings, among others.

Associate degree students from Essex County College (ECC) are now able to seamlessly transfer into appropriate and/or corresponding bachelor’s degree programs at NJIT.   

On Sept. 26, Career Development Services (CDS) will host the Fall 2018 Career Fair — a gathering that will bring together hundreds of employers in search of talent and thousands of jobseekers looking for internship and co-op opportunities as well as full-time positions. The career fair returns to NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center, which provides all attendees a modern, state-of-the art recruitment space in which to meet people and make contacts.

This year’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) freshman class has already set records. The group is 43 percent female, includes 13 New Jersey Medical School students and boasts an average SAT score of 1475.

Aside from these fantastic figures, the incoming class is noteworthy for its geography. A sizable number of students are coming to NJIT from outside New Jersey, some from as far away as California.  

Let’s meet a few of ADHC’s newest out-of-state students.

KRISTEN ABRAHAM