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Fulbright Winner Brendan Dente Heads Off This Summer for a Two-Year Stint in the Netherlands

Friday, April 13th, 2018
Brendan Dente ’18, a chemical engineer with a talent for product design and a yen for travel, has won a Fulbright scholarship to spend the next two years earning a master’s degree at one of Europe’s major STEM hubs, the Technological University of Delft (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. He intends to ...

Fostering a Vision for The Weiss-Aug Group: Dieter Weissenrieder '76

Friday, April 13th, 2018
Dieter Weissenrieder emigrated from Germany in 1960 as a tool and die maker to work for his uncle’s tooling business. He quickly became the manager of the company, and after working for the family business for 10 years, the company was sold to a large firm. He then founded Weiss-Aug in 1972 with his...

Tara Alvarez is Named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering 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 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Alvarez joined approximately 150 ...

Justin and Lauran Tuck Share Unique Journey to Raise Newark Student Opportunity

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
Not long after his arrival to the New York Giants in 2005, Justin Tuck and his wife, Lauran, founded Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy to bring greater educational and career opportunities to youth in the New York City metro-area. Nearly a decade on, the two continue to share their passion for...

Prudential/NJIT Connection Group Hosts Inaugural Event for Alumni

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
More than 75 NJIT alumni employed at Prudential gathered on April 5 for the inaugural event of the Prudential/NJIT Connection group, which seeks to provide the company’s employees and NJIT alumni with a platform for internal networking and the opportunity to participate in developments across Pruden...

Piotr Namiotko Earns EIVA Offensive Player of the Week

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
NJIT sophomore Piotr Namiotko has been selected EIVA Offensive Player of the Week for his performance last week EIVA Coordinator Brian Snow announced. Namiotko earns his first EIVA Offensive Player of the Week award after recording 60 kills while hitting .300 in 13 sets, averaging 4.62 kills per se...

Innovation Day 2018

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
An interdisciplinary engineering team developing an enzyme-blocking drug designed to reduce levels of LDL, or “bad cholesterol,” was the winner of this year’s TechQuest challenge, announced this week at NJIT’s sixth annual Innovation Day. Senior Victoria Harbour, a chemical engineering major, and j...

Martin Tuchman School of Management: A Force for Salesforce

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
For the past year and a half, Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) has been collaborating with Salesforce, a widely used customer relationship management (CRM) and cloud-computing platform. It’s a partnership that has enabled NJIT students to not only become trained in the platform — adding va...

Fake News, Cyberbullying, #MeToo: Law, Technology and Culture Director on Living in the Digital Age

Monday, April 9th, 2018
Since 2017, NJIT students, faculty and administrators have gathered for “Talking Back to Hate,” a teach-in about ways to understand and overcome evolving challenges in the expanding digital media landscape, such as misinformation, cyberbullying, trolling and more. “Fake news is false information th...

NJIT's Justin Etts Drives in Game-Winning Run in Ninth; Highlanders Tops No. 22 FGCU

Monday, April 9th, 2018
NJIT junior Justin Etts drove in the game-winning run as visiting NJIT topped No. 22 FGCU, 4-3, to conclude the three-game ASUN Conference series at Swanson Stadium Sunday afternoon. NJIT (12-12, 2-4 ASUN) scored single runs late in the game, delivering runs in the seventh, eighth and nin...