New Jersey was built by design. It’s a strange and complicated place – flawed and often misunderstood. DENSE, a new magazine launched by a group of mostly NJIT alumni, tells the Garden State’s story through a critical lens. Design, in the eyes of DENSE, is a tool for change in a state that needs plenty of it.
For all the convenience of our electronic devices, one inconvenient truth is that waste from our discarded tech is piling up — global e-waste could reach a whopping 74 million metric tons in 2030. NJIT alum Chao Yan’s new greentech startup, Princeton NuEnergy, is receiving national acclaim for their solution to a key aspect of the environmental dilemma — what happens to our smartphone and laptop batteries once we’re done with them?
Her 20s have been a busy time for Dina Ayman: earning two degrees at NJIT in the same year, working at Intel and Microsoft, teaching at her alma mater and starting a consultancy dedicated to diversity and inclusion.
Along the way, she achieved her dream of working at the intersection of engineering and technology, and became a role model for women interested in STEM. And now Forbes is recognizing all that, by naming her to its 2022 list of 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology.
With students back in classrooms this fall, educators and superintendents across New Jersey were once again welcomed back to NJIT’s campus to network and discuss fresh ways they can enrich hands-on STEM learning in their schools at the university’s fifth annual STEM School Leadership Forum — “Bringing Cutting-Edge STEM into Your Classrooms.”
Sometimes the road less traveled can lead to the most fertile grounds. Michael Rodriguez’s road led him to an internship, NJIT, construction management and back. College and a career don’t always follow neatly one after the other for him and for many NJIT students.
ROI-NJ recognized two alumni of New Jersey Institute of Technology as “difference makers” in its list of 2021 ROI Influencers: People of Color.
The honorees, Elisa Charters and Marjorie Perry, remain connected to NJIT via board service. Charters is a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council and the Advisory Board for its Martin Tuchman School of Management, while Perry chairs the university's Board of Overseers.
It wasn’t more than a few months after she graduated with a biology degree in May of 2016 that NJIT alumna Pamela Carman swapped the university’s labs and lecture halls for a classroom all her own, just minutes from campus at Newark’s East Side High School.
Since then, Carman has become the driving force behind an up-and-coming curriculum that is training the city’s high school seniors in the latest investigative techniques used by professional forensic scientists.
Already, she’s earned award-winning success along the way.
Speakers at TEDxNJIT 2021 will explain how technology impacts everything from knee-replacement surgery and the monitoring of traumatic brain injuries to how we’ll live in the wake of the global pandemic.
Dhiraj Shah, a transformational business leader, high growth investor and passionate entrepreneur who founded global IT services company Avaap, has joined NJIT’s Board of Trustees.
Shah is executive chairman of Avaap, a technology and management consultancy that provides software services to help organizations modernize and transform their operations for the digital world. Its clients are concentrated in healthcare, higher education and government. Shah founded the Edison-based firm in 2006.
Ayushi Sangoi ’20, a Ph.D. candidate who uses neuroimaging and eye movement-tracking equipment to discover connections between brain injuries and eye disorders was awarded a highly competitive graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. The biomedical engineer is the first NJIT graduate student to receive one.
Sangoi was among 28 awardees, selected from a field of 336 applicants, who were commended for their academic achievements, campus leadership and service, and anticipated contributions to their fields. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend.
