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Black History Month Look Back: NJIT Celebrates Alumni

Friday, February 25th, 2022
As Black History Month comes to a close, we celebrate several NJIT alumni who have made their mark as Highlanders. Read their stories below, and submit your own! Robert Barney Newton, NJIT's first African-American student, ar...

Management Alum's Startup App Offers New Approach to Make Friends and Date

Friday, January 28th, 2022
Business school alumnus Tomi Antoljak wants to do for online relationships what NBC's The Voice did for singing competitions. People using his new mobile app, Hangoo, talk first — and then only get to see each other if there's a match. "My belief really is that voice is the more authentic way to c...

DENSE Magazine Launched By NJIT Alumni

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
New Jersey was built by design. It’s a strange and complicated place – flawed and often misunderstood. DENSE, a new magazine launched by a group of mostly NJIT alumni, tells the Garden State’s story through a critical lens. Design, in the eyes of DENSE, is a tool for change in a state that needs ple...

NJIT Alum's Startup Earns National Acclaim for Li-Ion Battery Recycling Technology

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
For all the convenience of our electronic devices, one inconvenient truth is that waste from our discarded tech is piling up — global e-waste could reach a whopping 74 million metric tons in 2030. NJIT alum Chao Yan’s new greentech startup, Princeton NuEnergy, is receiving national acclaim for their...

Dina Ayman, NJIT Alum and Professor, Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Tech

Thursday, December 9th, 2021
Her 20s have been a busy time for Dina Ayman: earning two degrees at NJIT in the same year, working at Intel and Microsoft, teaching at her alma mater and starting a consultancy dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Along the way, she achieved her dream of working at the intersection of engineering...

NJIT STEM Leadership Forum Inspires Educators to Bring 'Cutting-Edge STEM' into Classrooms

Friday, October 22nd, 2021
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “B...

Michael Rodriguez Takes A Winding Road to Success

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021
Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students.  Rodriguez, 40, started clas...

NJIT Alumni Make ROI-NJ's List of 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color

Friday, September 24th, 2021
ROI-NJ recognized two alumni of New Jersey Institute of Technology as “difference makers” in its list of 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color. The honorees, Elisa Charters and Marjorie Perry, remain connected to NJIT via board service. Charters is a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, Hi...

This NJIT Alumna Is Building the Case for Forensic Science Talent in Newark Schools

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
It wasn’t more than a few months after she graduated with a biology degree in May of 2016 that NJIT alumna Pamela Carman swapped the university’s labs and lecture halls for a classroom all her own, just minutes from campus at Newark’s East Side High School.  Since then, Carman has become the d...

TEDxNJIT 2021: The Impact of Tech in a Resurgent Post-Pandemic World

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Speakers at TEDxNJIT 2021 will explain how technology impacts everything from knee-replacement surgery and the monitoring of traumatic brain injuries to how we’ll live in the wake of the global pandemic. Other speakers — including leaders from the Federal Aviation Administration and Los Alamos Nati...