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NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 8/2/21-8/6/21

Monday, August 2nd, 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...

NJIT's Julie Ancis Features in New Documentary Exploring Social Media 'Vitriol'

Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Vitriol — it’s not hard to find anywhere you look across Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and elsewhere online. The growing dilemma of our polarizing online discourse is also now the subject of a new documentary set to hit film festivals, featuring NJIT Cyberpsychology Director Julie Ancis. The film, Vitr...

Hudson County Community College and NJIT Create Transfer Agreement for Business Degrees

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
A new agreement between Hudson County Community College (HCCC) and NJIT will allow for seamless transfer of students into NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. The articulation agreement, signed Tuesday, July 27 in HCCC's Culinary Conference Center, allows students who earn an Associate of Sc...

Jason Munsch Named Head Cross Country/Track & Field Coach

Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Assistant Vice President and Director of Athletics Lenny Kaplan has announced the hiring of Jason Munsch as NJIT's new Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach. Munsch will replace former head coach Al Alonso, who has stepped down after 18 years at the helm of the program. "We had a great po...

Amazon Buys Wickr, A Secure Messaging App Founded by NJIT Alumni, Faculty

Friday, July 23rd, 2021
Online commerce giant Amazon recently acquired Wickr, a secure messaging company founded at NJIT in 2011 that's known for its focus on corporate and military customers, and will integrate the technology into its Amazon Web Services portfolio. Wickr's Highlander roots run deep, as most of its early ...

NJIT Presidential Search Update

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Dear Community Members, The NJIT Presidential Search Committee recently met with the university’s search consultants at Isaacson, Miller to review progress of the recruitment of candidates for NJIT's next president. The search process remains on track, with a timeline to select the university's nex...

Big Bear Solar Observatory Becomes Home to NSF's SOLIS Telescope

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research and National Solar Observatory announce construction to bring NSF’s SOLIS facility to Big Bear Solar Observatory, paving the way for decades of richer observations of the Sun and explosive space weather events. NJIT-Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research ...

In an NJIT First, Engineering Student Ayushi Sangoi Wins a Coveted Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellowship

Tuesday, July 20th, 2021
Ayushi Sangoi ’20, a Ph.D. candidate who uses neuroimaging and eye movement-tracking equipment to discover connections between brain injuries and eye disorders was awarded a highly competitive graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. The biomedical engineer is th...

Community Advocate and Diversity Business Leader Elisa Charters Appointed to NJIT Board of Trustees

Tuesday, July 20th, 2021
Elisa Charters, a stalwart for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) and dedicated alumna of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been appointed to the NJIT Board of Trustees. Charters, a first-generation college student-athlete who attended NJIT with support from its Educatio...

Nicole Loehle and Miku Okada Named 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year Nominees

Thursday, July 15th, 2021
NJIT seniors Nicole Loehle and Miku Okada have been selected as a nominee for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year award. Rooted in Title IX, the NCAA Woman of the Year Award was established in 1991 to recognize graduating female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished th...