New NJIT Committee Tackles Gender Imbalance in Faculty

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
A new committee aims to accelerate gender equity among faculty members at New Jersey Institute of Technology. The Women Faculty Advisory Committee, chaired by Nancy Steffen-Fluhr, will hold peer forums to examine key issues based on the testimony of junior faculty members. It also intends to poll w...

Parth Mehta: Building a Founders Mindset for Life Success

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023
Parth Mehta ’19, doesn’t believe in the question of “where do you want to be in five years?” According to him, since you cannot predict the future, don’t aim to build for five years ahead – build it now. When the information technology graduate founded Startup Tribes, his effort to bring startu...

3 NJIT Highlanders Recognized for Environmental Leadership

Monday, December 4th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology Trustee Dennis Toft tops ROI-NJ’s inaugural list of influencers on the environment, which also features Trustee Gary Dahms and Colette Santasieri, executive director of NJIT’s Center for Community Systems (CCS). Toft, chair of environmental law at Chiesa Shahinian...

Men's Swimming Claims Fifth ECAC Winter Title In Program History

Monday, December 4th, 2023
Champions once again! For the fifth time in program history and first time since 2019, the NJIT men's swimming and diving team has captured the ECAC Winter Championships title. The Highlanders completed their triumphant return to the meet after three years away (no meet in 2020, did not compete...

First-Year Engineering Majors Bond in Classrooms and Rocket Flights

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Hundreds of students in NJIT’s introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Design 101, are having a greater shared experience during the fall 2023 semester than any incoming class since the 1990s. Back then, Newark College of Engineering began customizing the FED syllabus for each ...

Scientists Build Tiny Biological Robots From Human Cells

Thursday, November 30th, 2023
Researchers have created tiny biological robots that they call Anthrobots from human tracheal cells that can move across a surface and have been found to encourage the growth of neurons across a region of damage in a lab dish.  The multicellular robots, ranging in size from the width of a huma...

Exploring the Intricate World of Cellular Processes: A PhD's Path From Moscow to Princeton Via NJIT

Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Alina Emeilianova worked right up to her Ph.D graduation ceremony. Appearing as first author in a paper in Langmuir, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Chemical Society, it is fitting that she snuck in one more notch of success in the twilight of her research career at New Jersey Inst...

Sebastian Robinson Earns Second-Straight America East Rookie of the Week Honor

Monday, November 27th, 2023
NJIT freshman Sebastian Robinson was named the America East Men's Basketball Rookie of the Week for the second-week in a row, the conference announced on Monday. Robinson averaged 18.0 ppg and 3.5 apg in a week where the Highlanders split a pair of games against Delaware State and Wagner....

Three Highlanders Awarded for Excellence in Journalism

Monday, November 27th, 2023
Two NJIT undergrads and an alumnus have landed prestigious awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists (NJ-SPJ) for their outstanding contributions to the university’s student newspaper, The Vector. Albert Dorman Honors students Mrunmayi Joshi ’25, Yukthi Sangoi ’24 and Ethan O'M...

Albert Dorman, Alumnus and Visionary Founding Benefactor of NJIT's Honors College, Passes Away at 97

Monday, November 27th, 2023
Albert Dorman ’45 ’99 HON, founding benefactor of the Albert Dorman Honors College at NJIT, passed away earlier this month at the age of 97. Born in rural New York, Dr. Dorman went on to graduate NJIT first in his class at the age of 19, with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.  Dr. Dorman had a...