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Computing Grad Student Adapts Leading-Edge Tech for Drone and Robot Vision

Monday, May 23rd, 2022
If you can envision a future where robots need eyeglasses to accurately deliver packages and safely perform dangerous missions, then Craig Iaboni would be your local android optician. Until then, Iaboni is pursuing an M.S. in computer science at NJIT by coding new kinds of neural networks and using...

Class of 2022 Showed Grit and Perseverance!

Monday, May 23rd, 2022
As the spring semester came to a close, Hillier College graduating students closed one chapter in their lives. On May 13, 2022, after the University Convocation Ceremony, Hillier College of Architecture and Design hosted a Graduation Celebration with a cocktail reception and awards ceremony at the W...

Business Grad Marina Arrese Selected CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team

Friday, May 20th, 2022
NJIT fifth-year Marina Arrese has been named as a First-Team selection on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 2 Women's At-Large Team, the organization announced May 19. Arrese, a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District First-Team selectee, was...

Monica Weglarz Wins Best Early-Stage Startup Award at UPitch Competition

Friday, May 20th, 2022
Recent NJIT alumna Monica Weglarz envisioned a company delivering fuel and mechanic services while you're at work, offered as an employee benefit, in turn earning her a $1,500 award for the best early-stage startup at the 2022 UPitch New Jersey business plan competition. Weglarz said the research t...

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

Thursday, May 19th, 2022
The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and acceler...

Senior Success: Published Researcher Marcos Molina to Pursue PhD at Princeton

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Marcos Molina, a chemical engineer with a penchant for complicated algorithms, made a tough call when deciding among Ph.D. programs at several graduate Ivy League institutions. In the end, he chose to pursue theoretical and computational research at Princeton. “It allows me to be closer to family a...

NJIT Hosts Big Data Alliance Symposium with Focus on Education

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
NJIT hosted the ninth New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, bringing together nearly 200 experts from academia, government and industry to share ideas about the present state and future trends of their field. Attendees represented a gamut of careers, not just programmers, which the panelists said...

NJIT Professors Prime Jada Evans for UCLA School of Law

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Jada Evans had a plan when she arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2019 and achieved it – and then some – ­in just three years. Beyond a finding a major that matched her dual interests in law and technology and honing her skills as a writer, the Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar imm...

NJII Sale of BioCentriq

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Dear NJIT Community Members, I want to share with you a significant achievement for NJIT/NJII. As announced in this press release, NJII has sold BioCentriq for $73 million. BioCentriq was founded based upon NJIT's strengths in life sciences and engineering and has evol...

2022 Hashimoto Prize Winner - Shihab Hafiz

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Shihab Bin Hafiz was born in Bogura, Bangladesh. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in July 2014. He completed his Master of Science in Nanoengineering at North Carolina Agricultural &a...