NJIT in the News

NJIT Professor Elected Deputy Mayor of Freehold TownshipEugene B. Golub, PhD, a professor of civil engineering at NJIT, was elected deputy mayor of Freehold Township. Golub has been on the governing body since 1996 and served as deputy mayor in 1998, 1999 and 2001. He was mayor in 2002. Read more.Goode Elected Fellow of the American Physical SocietyPhilip R. Goode, PhD, distinguished professor in the physics department at NJIT and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory and Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for outstanding research in studies of solar structure and oscillations, in earthshine measurements of the global reflectance, and for critical national and international research leadership in solar astrophysics.Bloom Appointed Chair of NASULGC CouncilJoel S. Bloom, EdD, interim provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at NJIT, was appointed chair of the Council on Student Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.Briller Named Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education Vladimir Briller, director of outcomes assessment in the institutional research and planning department at NJIT, was recently named as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education.

The magazine Black Issues in Higher Education recently ranked New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) among the nation’s top 15 producers of African American engineers from the years 1998 to 2002.  NJIT graduates a yearly average of 43 African American students.