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This month, three-time NJIT alum and new Board of Trustees Chair Robert C.

Albert Dorman Honors College welcomed more than 70 additional students this year as part of a new program called Dean's Scholars, designed to allow for a more robust honors education across campus. The program admits scholars from the College of Science and Liberal Arts, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, Martin Tuchman School of Management, Newark College of Engineering and Ying Wu College of Computing each year who desire the rigor of an honors education within their academic discipline.

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The ALICE Training Institute has recertified NJIT in active threat and emergency response efforts, with 82% of its full-time staff and faculty completing online training that’s designed to safeguard the campus community in the event of an active threat. To achieve recertification, NJIT’s Department of Public Safety also conducted a drill simulating an active threat and updated the NJIT Emergency and Continuity of Operations Plan that met the institute’s standards, Deputy Chief Kevin Kesselman said.

Ying Wu College of Computing Assistant Prof. Michael Lee, in an effort to help informatics students consider social consciousness, began teaching a new course last spring, Design Thinking: Addressing Structural Inequality, which will be offered again in spring 2021 due to its success.

About two dozen experts on data science are giving seminars to the NJIT community this semester and next, with many of them excited to participate virtually from far away with the students and faculty here in New Jersey .

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Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT welcomed this fall four new faculty members. Focused on expanding its footprint in research and teaching, these strategic faculty hires are an important element of that effort, bringing an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge to the college and its students.

Yiannis Koutis wants to know if a method inspired by electrical laws could lead to a faster and more insightful way of comparing seemingly disparate networks. Koutis, an associate professor of computer science in NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, will study this question for his $150,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation program known as EAGER — EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research — which supports research that is unproven yet potentially transformative.