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What had been a typical summer this past August all changed for Alisa Scivetti ’19 after she came across a social media advertisement browsing through her Snapchat story. The open-call advertisement encouraged applications for a chance of entering a highly selective, once-in-a-lifetime competition — one that would test Scivetti against some of New Jersey’s most impressive young women onstage, in front of a live audience of thousands.

On a Wednesday afternoon, in a handful of rooms along the second-floor corridor of Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT students and alumni networked, albeit not in person. The five participating alumni appeared on screen via Webex from the West Coast for the college’s Virtual Silicon Valley Networking event, interacting with and answering questions from small groups of students that rotated from room to room every 15 minutes.

NJIT has been ranked among only four universities in New Jersey to make U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 Best Global Universities list, joining Princeton, Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark Universities.

How well do you know your whereabouts? Better yet, how does one get acquainted with a new location when traveling or relocating? A team of researchers at NJIT has created a place-based artificial intelligence project that helps denizens expand their knowledge of the city of Istanbul. “[AI]stanbul has been designed as a curious machine that aims to be a virtual native,” explains the [AI]stanbul team about the installation on display at the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Sept. 22 – Nov 4.

The Center for Pre-College Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will be hosting a workshop for middle and high school teachers and STEM curriculum specialists on Wednesday, Nov. 14 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m in Central King Building Room 116 and NJIT Makerspace. The workshop will focus on teaching 3D engineering principles applied to a rotational equilibrium problem and classroom applications of 3D printing and laser cutting. The workshop includes continental breakfast and lunch, and easy on-campus parking is available.

Three NJIT women's soccer players were selected to the 2018 ASUN All-Conference team, headed by Freshman of the Year Fiona Wright and Coach of the Year Ally Nick, the league office announced at the women's soccer awards banquet on the campus of NJIT Thursday evening. In addition to Nick and Wright, senior midfielder Arianna Gerber was selected to the 11-person first-team, which included Wright. Sophomore defender Nicole Loehle was named to the second-team while Wright was selected to the All-Freshman team.

Research by NJIT’s Michel Boufadel on the mechanics of oil dispersion following a spill was recently highlighted by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI), a consortium that investigates the impacts of oil, dispersed oil and dispersants on the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico and coastal States. GoMRI aims to better elucidate the dynamics of spill events, as well as their environmental impacts and public health implications, and to develop oil and gas detection, characterization and remediation technologies in order to improve spill mitigation strategies.

The joint lab will explore wider applications for blockchain JD.com, China’s largest retailer online or offline, has launched a joint research lab for blockchain technologies with the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS).