NJIT is introducing a new staff member who will be crucial to the future of ecological sustainability at the school — Assistant Director of Sustainability Prabhakar Shrestha.

In the fall of 2021, Professor Georgeen Theodore led her Urban Design students in a collaboration with the Newark-based federal offices of the General Services Administration. Located at 970 Broad Street, the federal building is named after U.S Representative Peter Rodino, and is home to the offices of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

NJIT's Conrad Corpus has assumed the new role of university bursar and associate treasurer. Corpus, a longtime university employee, previously was director of Financial Systems and Innovation (FSI). He has been with NJIT since 2006. In his new role, Corpus will manage the overall student financial services function, which includes billings and receivables. Additionally, he will oversee the treasury operations, focusing on managing banking relations, credit card operations and federal and state regulatory compliances.

Kevin Belfield, dean of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, has been named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). RSC is the world’s oldest professional society of chemists, founded in 1841, and has grown to over 54,000 members around the world. The society awards fellow status to distinguished chemists that have served a minimum of five years in a senior position and have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the chemical sciences.

The NJIT women's basketball team recorded its 12th win of the season in a 69-52 win at Hartford behind four double-figure scorers paced by Lyzi Litwinko's team-best 16 points Saturday afternoon in America East Conference women's basketball action at Chase Family Arena. The 12 wins for NJIT this season is the second highest win total since moving to Division I in the 2006-07 and the seven road wins is a new NJIT Division I mark.

The NJIT men's volleyball team extended its win streak to six, defeating visiting Princeton, 3-1, in EIVA Conference men's volleyball action Saturday afternoon inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected co-vice chair of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Trustees Norma Clayton ’81 as a new member. The culmination of a yearlong process, Clayton is part of a new cohort of 111 national and 22 international members, bringing the NAE’s total U.S. membership to 2,388 and the number of international members to 310.

Imagine designing an inexpensive, flat and strong structure that bends perfectly into Spaceship Earth from Disney's EPCOT theme park. NJIT's Przemyslaw Musialski, associate professor of computer science, believes his latest research is a step in the right direction, sitting at the intersection of architecture, computing and geometry.

Gennady Gor is becoming a go-to expert at combining the power of chemistry and computers to protect our bodies. Gor's specialty is molecular simulation of fluids and their interactions with porous materials. "I am interested in coupling between surface chemistry and mechanics. This is the main focus of my NSF Career Award from 2020," he explained.

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