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Two Members of the NJIT Community are Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Alvarez was one of 169 inventors from 110...

Arquitecta graduada de NJIT, Melissa Nieves, gana el premio AIA Service Award

Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Melissa Nieves, graduada de NJIT en 2019, ha ganado el premio al servicio del American Institute of Architects [AIA en siglas en inglés] New Jersey 2022. Nieves, arquitecta asociada de la Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, obtuvo su maestría en arquitectura con especialización en planificaci...

Cem Benar - ECE PhD Student of the Month - December 2022

Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Cem Benar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at NJIT. His doctoral research aims to develop a theoretical framework for neural networks. Neural networks have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. Most neural networks are not inherently interp...

NJIT Moves Back into the Win Column, Vaughan Paces NJIT with Career-High 11 Points

Saturday, December 10th, 2022
The NJIT women's basketball team moved back into the win column paced by a career-best 11 points from sophomore Reese Vaughan in the Highlanders 42-38 road victory at Saint Peter's in non-conference women's basketball inside the Run Baby Run Arena Saturday afternoon. With the win, NJIT sn...

Track and Field Opens Indoor Campaign With Record-Setting Seahawk Shootout

Friday, December 9th, 2022
The NJIT track and field closed out 2022 by opening their indoor campaign at the Wagner College Seahawk Shootout, held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex. A number of school records fell on the Highlanders' first time out and set the tone for the season as the program prepares for the rest of the ...

NJIT Interior Design Students Win IIDA Awards

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Four interior design students won awards at this year’s regional International Interior Design Association Student Design Showcase and Competition. Okhyun des Lauriers '22, fourth-year student Haylee Merola, third-year student Martina Hanna, and third-year student Caitlin Majewski received awards. ...

Ioannis Koutis Receives ICCAD Best Paper Award

Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
Ioannis Koutis, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, was the recipient of the William J. McCalla Best Paper Award (back end) at the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), held in November in San Diego, along with collaborators Ismail Bustany fr...

Forest Resilience Linked with Higher Mortality Risk in Western U.S., Study Finds

Monday, December 5th, 2022
A forest’s resilience, or ability to absorb environmental disturbances, has long been thought to be a boost for its odds of survival against the looming threat of climate change. But a new study suggests that for some Western U.S. forests, it’s quite the opposite. In the journal Global Change Biol...

Norma Clayton, NJIT Alumna and Trustee, Elected to Goodyear Board of Directors

Monday, December 5th, 2022
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced the election of Norma Clayton ’81, co-vice chair of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Board of Trustees, to its Board of Directors, effective Nov. 28, 2022. "We are very pleased to welcome Norma Clayton to Goodyear's Board of Directors," ...

Architecture Alumna Melissa Nieves Wins AIA Service Award, Shares Her Journey

Sunday, December 4th, 2022
Melissa Nieves ’19 is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects New Jersey 2022 Service Award. Nieves, associate architect for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, earned her master’s in architecture with a concentration in infrastructure planning.  “Melissa has had the p...