Summertime Look Back: The NJIT Faculty and Academia That Made News
New degree programs and faculty achievements are a mainstay of NJIT. This second of a six-part retrospective revisits a few of those that were announced over the past three summers. Click on the headlines below.
Senior University Lecturer is the Recipient of New Jersey's Highest Honor for Public Service
Last summer, 55 students from across the state of New Jersey attended a statewide cybersecurity boot camp run by Senior University Lecturer Osama Eljabiri via Real World Connections, a STEM education program Eljabiri created over a decade ago. Eljabiri’s tireless efforts to catalyze interest in STEM-related fields by providing enrichment opportunities to thousands of New Jersey middle school and high school students has earned him a 2017 New Jersey State Governor’s Jefferson Award.
Chart a New Course: NJIT Launches M.S. Degree in Data Science
In 2016, job search, salary comparison and company ratings site Glassdoor ranked data scientist the most popular job in America. To help meet the growing demand for analytics professionals, NJIT is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Science degree in Data Science. The new degree, housed in the Department of Computer Science at Ying Wu College of Computing, offers two tracks: computational and statistics.
NJIT Offers New Jersey's First Undergraduate Forensic Science Program
This fall, NJIT has announced it will launch its highly anticipated Forensic Science Bachelor of Science degree program — a unique program designed for undergraduate students interested in the rapidly expanding fields of forensic science and crime scene investigation. The 120-credit degree will represent New Jersey’s only undergraduate forensic science degree, and the first baccalaureate degree program in the New York metropolitan region designed from the outset to achieve approval by the main accrediting body in college-level forensic science academics, the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC).
Take Center Stage: NJIT Offers a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Technology
NJIT's Dean Kevin Belfield Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Kevin Belfield, dean of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, has earned the exclusive honor of being elected fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. With the ACS’s announcement, published in the July 15 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, Belfield becomes the first NJIT faculty member to be named ACS Fellow, a distinction the society established through its fellows program in 2008 to award its members for “outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the society.”
NJIT's Bipin Rajendran Is Named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors
Bipin Rajendran, an engineer who develops computing systems that aim to match the efficiency seen in nature by studying the organizational principles of the brain, has been elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators “who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society,” according to the Academy. They have also proved successful in patenting, licensing and commercializing their inventions.
NJIT Professor Awarded Prestigious DARPA Fellowship
Kurt Rohloff, a professor of computer science at NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, has been awarded the prestigious DARPA Director’s Fellowship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The DARPA Director’s Fellowship is given only to individuals who have previously received the agency’s Young Faculty Award and whose subsequent work has produced technology that has shown significant impact.
