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NJIT, one of the few public polytechnic institutes in the Northeast, is once again included in the latest edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges — a subjective and selective reference tool that systematically reviews over 300 colleges in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. For more than 30 years, millions of students, parents, and guidance counselors have relied on the Fiske Guide to Colleges to present the best and most interesting schools during their college search.

Two NJIT researchers, working with collaborators from the IBM Research Zurich Laboratory and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have demonstrated a novel synaptic architecture that could lead to a new class of information processing systems inspired by the brain.

The Academy of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) is an intensive, weeklong entrepreneurship boot camp. Sponsored by ICSB, the world’s oldest academic organization dedicated to entrepreneurship, the Academy guides students through diverse aspects of entrepreneurship, including opportunity discovery, business model validation, digital marketing and sales — all in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

With $18 billion in revenue in 2017, the multinational engineering firm AECOM has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies for three years running. In the spring semester of 2017, eight NJIT graduate students took part in AECOM’s first intrapreneurship competition.

The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for a job, but rather to find job candidates, as a recruiter for her employer, Getinge. Randolph is a production engineer at the global medical technology company.

A yearly tradition of regional computer science department chairs sharing teaching methods, demonstrating new research and awarding high-quality teaching continued on the campus of NJIT in June.

Dr. Atam P. Dhawan, NJIT’s senior vice provost for research, received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who, the nearly 120-year-old publisher of biographies, for his leadership in the fields of engineering and higher education. The award recognizes people who have “achieved greatness” in their industry, excelling for at least 20 years.

A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now installed beside the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at NJIT’s California-based Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO).

Rashmi Ketha recently earned two new titles: NJIT Master of Science in Management (MSM) graduate and New Jersey Career Center Consortium (NJC3) Student of the Year for 4-Year Technical Institutions. As the former, she would like to apply her foundational knowledge gained at NJIT to pursue further education at Harvard, with an eye toward the C-suite. And as the latter, she received a $250 cash award, which she plans to invest and also purchase a few books that are meaningful to her.