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Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

The NJIT women's basketball team moved back into the win column paced by a career-best 11 points from sophomore Reese Vaughan in the Highlanders 42-38 road victory at Saint Peter's in non-conference women's basketball inside the Run Baby Run Arena Saturday afternoon.

The NJIT track and field closed out 2022 by opening their indoor campaign at the Wagner College Seahawk Shootout, held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex. A number of school records fell on the Highlanders' first time out and set the tone for the season as the program prepares for the rest of the schedule in 2023. HIGHLANDER RECORDS

Four interior design students won awards at this year’s regional International Interior Design Association Student Design Showcase and Competition. Okhyun des Lauriers '22, fourth-year student Haylee Merola, third-year student Martina Hanna, and third-year student Caitlin Majewski received awards.

A forest’s resilience, or ability to absorb environmental disturbances, has long been thought to be a boost for its odds of survival against the looming threat of climate change. But a new study suggests that for some Western U.S. forests, it’s quite the opposite. In the journal Global Change Biology, researchers have published one of the first large-scale studies of U.S. forest land exploring the link between forest resilience and mortality.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced the election of Norma Clayton ’81, co-vice chair of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Trustees, to its Board of Directors, effective Nov. 28, 2022.

Melissa Nieves ’19 is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects New Jersey 2022 Service Award. Nieves, associate architect for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, earned her master’s in architecture with a concentration in infrastructure planning. “Melissa has had the pleasure of becoming a leader and mentor inside and outside her workplace. She embodies what it means to be an advocate and representative for diversity and mentorship within the profession.” said the AIA.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has received a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Authority (USEDA) to support the transformation of an underserved area into an economic development hub based around Newark Liberty International Airport.

NJIT and the National Academy of Construction (NAC), with the support from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine hosted a symposium to bring together members from the industry, government and academia to collectively work together to help students become much more productive when they enter the workforce and understand the concept of safety in their professions.

Student entrepreneurs at NJIT's annual New Business Model Competition had one word for the experienced judges this week: plastics. It's the opposite of the revered 1967 film The Graduate, where a young Dustin Hoffman receives that single word of career advice from an accomplished friend of his parents. But it holds true, as plastics technology was a common theme to the student winners, all born decades after the movie debuted.