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NJIT Appoints New General Counsel and VP for Legal Affairs

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,   I am pleased to announce that, following Holly Stern’s decision to retire this fall, NJIT has successfully completed a national search for a successor general counsel and vice president of legal affairs. Sandy Curko, who brings more than 25 years of ext...

Crime Prevention and Recovery Project Wins Best Paper Award at Conference on Digital Gov. Research

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Professor Jim Geller, chair of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing, and Angela Garretson, chief of public and community affairs at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), along with Soon Ae Chun, professor and director of the information systems and informatics prog...

NJIT Names Sandy Curko as General Counsel and Vice President of Legal Affairs

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Sandy A. Curko as the new general counsel and vice president of legal affairs. Curko brings over 25 years of extensive legal experience, having represented corporate entities and educational institutions throughout her career in various legal a...

DAAD Scholarship Recipient

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Melisa Bilgili, a junior in NJIT's Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, won a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship under the DAAD Research Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program. 2,358 North American, British and Irish students applied for 320 scholar...

HCAD's Julio Garcia Figueroa's Quest to Merge Prefabrication, Energy Efficiency & Cultural Heritage

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
University Lecturer Julio Garcia Figueroa at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD) looks forward to teaching his course on prefabricated architecture this semester, and in the future, hopes to create a study abroad program to take HCAD students to his native Mexico.  “First, wh...

Q&A with Jamie Payton, New Dean of Ying Wu College of Computing

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
Jamie Payton is the new dean of NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing. She met with NJIT News for a Q&A session about her views on computing education and questions about current events in computing. The following transcript is lightly edited for clarity. Her Roadmap to NJIT NJIT News: Norther...

Instructor de HCAD, Julio García Figueroa, comparte su visión sobre la prefabricación y su futuro

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
El profesor universitario Julio García Figueroa en el Hillier College of Architecture and Design (con siglas en inglés HCAD) está preparando cada detalle para enseñar su curso sobre arquitectura prefabricada este semestre, y en el futuro, quiere crear un programa de estudios en el extranjero para ll...

NJIT Celebrates Largest Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
An independent, flexible, small sensor for breast tumor detection was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Isabella Frangiosa, a rising senior at Rowan University, said the inspiration of her ...

NJIT Hosts Summer STEM Boot Camp for Tech-Minded High Schoolers

Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Nearly 100 high school rising juniors and seniors spent their July days at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where they’re studying advanced topics such as cybersecurity, engineering, entrepreneurship, neuroscience and robotics. The students came from 64 school districts throughout the Garden Sta...

Historic Gift Renames College of Science and Liberal Arts

Monday, August 5th, 2024
Dear Highlanders,   It is with immense pride that I announce the renaming of our College of Science and Liberal Arts to the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts. This recognition honors a historic and transformative gift from Jordan Hu '89, founder and CEO of RiskVal Financial Soluti...