New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is pleased to announce that Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, of Basking Ridge, NJ, has been appointed Chair of its Board of Trustees. Cohen succeeds Stephen P. DePalma ’72, who stepped down after a distinguished seven-year term.  Cohen has formed a close lasting connection with NJIT as a three-time alum and as an influential member of the university’s leadership, offering strategic guidance through his service on NJIT’s board since 2018, as well as on the Newark College of Engineering’s Board of Visitors and Alumni Association Board of…

This month, three-time NJIT alum and new Board of Trustees Chair Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87 was promoted to President of Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies at Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, with facilities in N.J.  Alongside his longstanding connection to NJIT — serving on Newark College of Engineering’s Board of Visitors for over 10 years before joining the Board of Trustees in 2018 and becoming chair this year — Cohen has forged an exemplary career at the intersection of technology and medicine, and…

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. Dean's Scholars pursue a minimum of three honors-only courses within their degree-granting…

The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More than 115 companies, government agencies and nonprofits are participating in the fair, which will take place Sept. 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Among the participants are Facebook, Colgate-Palmolive, Merck, CenturyLink, the FBI, General Dynamics, Turner Construction, the New York State Department…

As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate it all because, at the end of the day, the goal is to just stay healthy,” said Emmanuel Odekunle, a biology major and student in the Albert Dorman Honors College. The challenge, he added, is to stay focused amid the necessary changes. Or as he put it, to “make sure that I don’t relent, that I…

Virtual University Convocation Program  WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WHEN: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 3 p.m WHERE: The Convocation ceremony will take place virtually and will be streamed starting at 3 p.m. It can be viewed here once it begins.  WHO: NJIT President Joel S. Bloom and Provost and Executive Vice President Fadi P. Deek will preside over the…

Five NJIT executives are featured in ROI-NJ's inaugural list of higher education influencers, which debuted this week. On the academic side, the statewide business publication featured President Joel S. Bloom, Provost Fadi Deek and Newark College of Engineering Dean Moshe Kam. For industry relations, ROI-NJ highlighted Simon Nynens and Donald Sebastian, who are the CEO and president, respectively, of NJIT's New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII). Bloom, the publication stated, "[H]as helped lift NJIT to extraordinary levels. It is now recognized as a Top 100 university in the country — but…

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college. Additionally, NJIT appears as a Top 50 College for Undergraduate Game Design and Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Studies. The Princeton Review chooses the colleges for the book based on data it annually collects from administrators at hundreds of…

Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after suffering an allergic reaction and found herself short of funds to cover her co-payment. “This is the first time I’m living outside of my family’s house and I’m far from my home in Kolkata, India. As an international student, you arrive in a new country and have to figure out how to manage all…

A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure – and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods. The paper was published online by the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. DNA methylation is involved in many key cellular processes and is an important component in gene…