News

Parth Agrawal, a 2021 biomedical engineering graduate and Albert Dorman Honors scholar, was accepted to the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. But he’s not going – right away, at least. He deferred admission for a two-year fellowship with Venture For America, a nonprofit organization that trains recent college graduates to work in startups in cities across the country.

The NJ Brownfields Assistance Center serves New Jersey communities by providing free training and guidance on how to get brownfields cleaned up for productive redevelopment. Their work includes assistance to community groups developing a strategy for moving local brownfields toward redevelopment, identification of funding and financing sources as well as guidance through the environmental regulatory process.

Tommy Rodrigues ‘16 came to Hillier College’s industrial design program while employed in the roofing industry. Now he is working at Tesla, based in California, in the role of staff mechanical design engineer. He is part of a team of engineers developing Tesla Solar Roof. He took some time out to share his experience and the value of an industrial design education. AS: You were already working in the roofing industry when you came to NJIT, did you consider other program options such as architecture or engineering and how did industrial design win out?

Former NJIT men's volleyball standout Alvaro Gimeno announced on Wednesday, June 23 that he has signed a contract to play professional volleyball for Rio Duero Soria volleyball club in Spain.

The NJIT men's swimming and diving program was once again honored by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as one of the 426 overall institutions and 110 Division I men's programs to earn Scholar All-America team honors for the spring semester.

New Jersey Institute of Technology has accepted an invitation from the Southland Conference and will join the NCAA Division I league as an associate member in the sports of men's and women's tennis, effective for the 2021-22 academic year. "We are very happy to welcome NJIT tennis to the Southland, and we look forward to providing the Highlanders' men's and women's teams with an outstanding NCAA postseason experience," Southland Commissioner Tom Burnett said.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is extending its partnership with HackerU to launch three additional career-prep bootcamps in UI/UX Design, Full-Stack Development, and Data Science and Analytics. These accelerated, non-credit training programs are designed to meet the needs of working professionals, offering flexible weekend and evening course schedules.

Three teams of student engineers are showcasing their applied research this week at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Student Design Expo, as they vie for a second round of funding from the EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet program, which aims to spur new systems and technologies that advance sustainability.

Ying Wu College of Computing at its NJIT @JerseyCity location will offer new master's degrees in information systems and business information systems this fall, to meet demand from local technology professionals for graduate-level education. The new degrees will bring the number of master’s programs offered at NJIT @JerseyCity to five. The location also offers five graduate certificate programs.

Sabastian Fernandes, a writer for NJIT's Vector student newspaper, is the winner of a prestigious Society of Professional Journalists award for his Oct. 10, 2020 review of video games as a means of maintaining human bonds during the COVID pandemic.