New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) conferred 2,885 bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the 102nd commencement ceremony May 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark. Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Engineering Education, and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering at Purdue University, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Science and delivered the commencement address in which she shared her perspective as a first-generation college student from Trenton, N.J. who attended graduate school at Princeton…

Meet the 2018 Gonfalon Carriers   Julia Garcia Gonfalon: Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) Major: Finance Hometown: Madrid, Spain Next up: Moving to Salt Lake City, Utah to work as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Garcia, a former member of Spain’s national fencing team, chose NJIT in part for its Division 1 program, but quickly found her stride in NJIT’s emerging investment community. “I’ve always been obsessed with stocks. I was reading the financial pages by 10 or 11, which my parents thought was so odd! When I got here, I was ready to take action. What’s been…

MEDIA ADVISORY: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to Confer More than 3,100 Degrees at 102nd Commencement Exercises May 15, May 17 and May 18, 2018 Engineering Educator Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address and Receive Honorary Doctor of Science                                                      …

This May, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) celebrated a year of standout achievements from its faculty, staff, students and alumni at the 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony.  The annual springtime event recognized outstanding research and academic excellence across NJIT’s liberal arts and sciences communities — from mathematics, solar astronomy and environmental science to the social sciences, performing arts and literature. The event also highlighted recent landmark successes of the college, as well as new programs and plans for the coming…

The Sun’s corona, invisible to the human eye except when it appears briefly as a fiery halo of plasma during a solar eclipse, remains a puzzle even to scientists who study it closely. Beginning 1,300 miles from the star’s surface and extending millions more in every direction, it is more than a hundred times hotter than lower layers much closer to the fusion reactor at the Sun’s core.  A team of physicists, led by NJIT’s Gregory Fleishman, has recently discovered a phenomenon that may begin to untangle what they call “one of the greatest challenges for solar modeling” –…

Ivan Mitevski is Newark College of Engineering's Outstanding Engineer Success in a Snapshot: Ivan Mitevski*, a Columbia University-bound mathematical modeler, was honored at the 2018 NCE Salute to Excellence as both the outstanding senior for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and for the entire Newark College of Engineering. While juggling two separate degrees – electrical engineering and applied mathematics – and maintaining a 4.0 average, Mitevski is also an ambitious contributor to high-profile research in both his departments. Last year, his work with…

Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the race toward the next era of patient care — genomic medicine — was on.  However, advances in being able to treat patients based on their genetic information have also reshaped the training needed for nearly three million nurses in the U.S., who now require deeper working knowledge of cardiovascular genetics and cutting-edge diagnostic technology, in addition to the traditional medical skills they routinely apply on the hospital floor. NJIT Albert Dorman Honors College undergraduate, Amir Elzomor, is addressing that critical…

This month, the work of NJIT’s top student researchers was put on display at the 2018 Knox Student Research Showcase, “A Glimpse Into the Future”.  The showcase, which annually honors outstanding research done at NJIT by its graduate and undergraduate students, awarded Najmaddin Akhundov first place among this year’s graduate researchers for developing a computational model to track and control invasive species that threaten the environment. Akhundov, a mechanical and industrial engineering Ph.D. student, gave a presentation that demonstrated his model’s ability to successfully measure…

Dylan Renaud, an Albert Dorman Honors College senior studying applied physics and math, won $1,000 at a business plan competition hosted April 12 by the College of Business and Public Management at Kean University. Renaud’s business concept, one of 120 submitted by student entrepreneurship teams from NJIT, Kean University, Wenzhou University (China) and DECA high schools, is a novel enterprise software system and mobile app for the management and assessment of student tutoring in higher education. Renaud developed this concept in the New Ventures Management class (ENTR410) at NJIT’s…

In fall 2018, NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts will launch its new Professional Biotechnology Option, offered as part of the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science’s pharmaceutical chemistry master's program. The 30-credit option — comprised of project management, communications and biotechnology-based coursework  — is designed to "prepare graduate students for leadership and management roles in the rapidly expanding biotechnology industry," and meet unmet employment demand among one of the greatest concentration of biotechnology and pharmaceutical activities…