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NJIT Appoints Kamalika Sandell as Vice Provost and Chief Information Officer

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020
Kamalika Sandell has been appointed as NJIT’s vice provost and chief information officer, effective July 27, Provost Fadi Deek announced in an email to the campus community. Sandell, previously deputy CIO at American University, replaces interim CIO Gregg Chottiner. “Kamalika will be the principal...

Senior Success: Amid Pandemic, Soojin Kim Declares She's All In for Emergency Medicine

Monday, June 1st, 2020
Footage of emergency room workers managing overflow crowds of gravely sick patients with deftness, humanity and visible emotion has been nightly, gut-wrenching viewing for millions of Americans over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. For senior Soojin Kim, those often-harrowing scenes prompted one...

AI Software Will Help Regional Planners Build Sidewalks Database

Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Community and urban planners throughout North Jersey will soon have a thorough digital inventory of their sidewalks, based on a unique use of geospatial intelligence software led by Ying Wu College of Computing Associate Professor Xinyue Ye and his Ph.D. student Huan Ning, on behalf of the North Jer...

Sohail Mohammed '88, Tech-Savvy Judge, Helps Usher in COVID-Era Virtual Courtrooms

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
On March 15, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner suspended in-person proceedings in New Jersey Superior Court, giving the judiciary two days to prepare for virtual courtrooms. By that afternoon, Passaic County Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed, ’88, a former electrical engineer and technology enthusiast,...

Free College Persistence Mentoring Available to NJIT Students

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020
Through the university’s partnership with Strive for College, an online college mentoring platform, NJIT students are invited to participate in a free pilot program over the next year aimed at helping them complete their courses, earn a degree and prepare for living-wage careers after college. Striv...

Senior Success: Josh Gallic Launches Career at Valcor Engineering

Wednesday, May 20th, 2020
Mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Josh Gallic will graduate this semester and has a job offer from Valcor Engineering to be a junior design engineer. At his post, Josh will be designing valves for space missions. Josh had been introduced to Valcor Engineering through o...

Students' Unique Platform for Face-Shield Production Hits Close to Home

Friday, May 15th, 2020
For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJI...

Senior Success: Greg Tanis to Join L3Harris as a Systems Engineer

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
As a third-generation Highlander, mechanical engineering student and Albert Dorman Honors Scholar Greg Tanis looks forward to joining L3Harris as a systems engineer and takes a minute to reflect on his time at NJIT. Congratulations, Greg!

Senior Success: The Skyline Soars on Engineer Niyam Shah's Horizon

Friday, May 8th, 2020
For his senior capstone project, Niyam Shah went big: The civil engineering major and his teammates designed a 40-story commercial tower with a thick concrete core and X-patterned steel bracing for an empty lot on Manhattan’s building-jammed West Side. “The core supports the building, but the highe...

NJ Public Universities Join to Launch Initiative to 'Bring Students Home'

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Ten public universities and colleges in New Jersey have joined forces and issued a call for the over 100,000 state residents who attend higher education institutions out-of-state to return home, enroll in New Jersey institutions, and help rebuild the state as part the New Jersey Scholar Corps progra...