NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/17/21-5/21/21

Monday, May 17th, 2021
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

CSLA Awards '21: NJIT's College of Science and Liberal Arts Unites for Night of Celebration

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021
With the spring semester nearly in the rearview, standout students, faculty, staff and alumni of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) gathered virtually for a night of due recognition and positive reflection at the college’s annual year-end celebration, the 2021 CSLA Awards. At th...

Student Volunteers Put a Smile on a Vaccination Super Center

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Engineering professor Chang Yaramothu ’13H, ’14, ’17, Abigail Varughese ’22, Rita Vought ’21 and FEMA’s Marc K. Raoul ’09 are some of the NJIT students, past and present, contributing engineering, emergency management and healthcare skills to the massive effort. When a frail, elderly woman ref...

A Mathematician and a Biomedical Engineer Win 2020 Excellence in Research Awards

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Caption: Senior Vice Provost for Research Atam Dhawan (far left) and Chair of the Board of Overseers awards committee Emil Herkert (far right) with the 2020 Excellence in Research award winners, (left to right) Bryan Pfister, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering (standing in for...

NJIT Athletics Holds 2020-21 Athletics Awards Ceremony

Monday, May 10th, 2021
NJIT Athletics recognized the contributions and accomplishments of over 350 student-athletes on its 19 varsity teams for the 2020-21 season at the Annual Athletics Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 on campus inside NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. The Athletic Sports Awards Ceremony was a...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/10/21-5/14/21

Monday, May 10th, 2021
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Heft, A Fintech Fanatic and Volleyball Star, Heading to Brown University

Monday, May 10th, 2021
Logan Heft, a senior business major and NJIT volleyball player, will intern as a business intelligence specialist at Global X ETFs this summer and then head to Brown University in the fall to study for a master's degree in data science. Heft, out of Whitehouse Station, was set to attend The College...

Franzoni's Blast Leads NJIT to Game Two Victory at Stony Brook

Sunday, May 9th, 2021
Senior captain Paul Franzoni's eighth inning home run, a two-run blast over the left field wall, helped push the NJIT baseball team past host Stony Brook in game two of Sunday's doubleheader at Joe Nathan Field. The Highlanders held on to win game two 7-5, after falling short 4-3 in t...

Researchers Explain, and Predict, COVID-19 Spread With Advanced Models

Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials seized on contact tracing as the most effective way to anticipate the virus’s migration from the initial, densely populated hot spots and try to curb its spread. Months later, infections were nonetheless recorded in similar patterns in nearly every...

NJIT Shines Again as a Top 100 University in the QS USA Rankings for 2021

Thursday, May 6th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked third in New Jersey and in the top 100 nationally in the second annual Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Ranking USA list for 2021. More than 750 institutions across the country were considered for the ranking. At No. 90, NJIT is jo...