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NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 6/15/20-6/19/20

Monday, June 15th, 2020
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 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, i...

NJIT Joins America East Conference

Monday, June 15th, 2020
The America East Conference and New Jersey Institute of Technology announced that the Highlanders will become the 10th full member institution of the America East, effective for the 2020-21 academic year.  NJIT will officially join the league July 1, 2020.  “We are thrilled to welcome NJ...

NJIT's Mitra Deploys Nanoscopic Virus Killers in the Fight Against COVID-19

Monday, June 15th, 2020
As medical researchers race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, an NJIT scientist who specializes in nanomaterials is developing new methods to slow its spread in the environment. Backed by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Somenath Mitra, director of the univers...

NJIT Pandemic Recovery Update - June 2020

Friday, June 12th, 2020
NJIT Students, Parents, Faculty and Staff, I write today to provide further details regarding the Pandemic Recovery Plan we first shared on May 5, 2020, and updated on May 22, 2020. NJIT plans to begin welcoming faculty, staff and some students back to our campus throughout the Summe...

NJIT Pandemic Recovery Update - June 2020

Friday, June 12th, 2020
NJIT Students, Parents, Faculty and Staff, I write today to provide further details regarding the Pandemic Recovery Plan we first shared on May 5, 2020, and updated on May 22, 2020. NJIT plans to begin welcoming faculty, staff and some students back to our campus throughout the Summer and, as we ha...

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

Friday, June 12th, 2020
“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and fo...

Senior Success: Rukayat Balogun's STEM Journey Takes Her to Facebook

Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Since the end of March, Rukayat Balogun has been working remotely for Facebook as a site logistics analyst, overseeing staff that maintain the servers and the facility, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. She will move to the Atlanta area in July for this position, which came her way la...

Senior Success: Coder Ayushi Sangoi is Also the Class of 2020's Outstanding Engineer

Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
As it embarks on clinical trials at children’s hospitals across the country, a novel vision therapy device developed by NJIT engineers is generating streams of data on eye movements in need of rapid and precise analysis. Enter Ayushi Sangoi ’20*, coder par excellence, to the algorithmic re...

Students' Research Project Becomes Award-Winning Device at UPitch Contest

Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
In 2019, Owais Aftab was in search of a summer research project to meet his degree requirements for independent study. The biomedical engineering/pre-health Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, then a first-year student, found what he was looking for after a conversation with one of his teachers, J...

Ying Wu College of Computing Starts New Effort to Recruit and Retain Women

Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
A new plan to recruit and retain more women as computer science majors is beginning in earnest this summer at NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing. Similar efforts have been underway for five years, said James Geller, a professor and associate dean for research. But the push has a new tailwind ...