Oluwanifemi Fuwa fabricated face masks to protect people from COVID-19.

Kaily Peixoto volunteered at a senior center and handed out scarves to homeless individuals at Newark’s Penn Station. 

Nyssa Nixon volunteered at Isaiah House shelter through Jack and Jill of America and tutored peers as a member of the National Honor Society.  

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been awarded three Upward Bound grants by the U.S. Department of Education totaling $1,168,939 that will help pave the way for hundreds of Newark high school students to pursue a college degree.

Upward Bound — one of seven federal TRIO programs created by the Higher Education Act of 1965 — funds and supports higher education opportunities for students from low-income families, as well as those from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. 

ROI-NJ recognized four NJIT leaders, two innovative majors and a new building in its 2022 list of the most influential people and programs in New Jersey higher education.

While shows such as CSI and Dexter have made the world of forensic science a hit on television, the field is also quickly become a hit in classrooms as well, evidenced by the recent turnout at NJIT for the first-ever Forensic Science Education Conference held in New Jersey.

Ever since police ended the 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer and identified Joseph DeAngelo by uploading crime scene DNA to a popular genealogy website in 2018, advances in DNA forensics have sparked an explosion in once-unsolvable criminal cold cases being resurrected and cracked after a generation. Yet, for the missing and unidentified, it is another story — often referred to as the “nation’s silent mass disaster.”

On March 22-23, New Jersey’s forensic and legal professionals will convene again at the 2022 Forensic Science Summit for the Criminal Defense Bar to discuss the latest advances in forensic sience and its increasing influence in today’s courtrooms. 

The summit is considered among the leading annual forensic science conferences for New Jersey’s defense attorneys and investigators, promising a variety of talks from experts and collaborative training workshops with forensic scientists, law enforcement, legal professionals and students from across the state. 

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.”

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.

Three leaders at New Jersey Institute of Technology are featured in ROI-NJ’s annual recognition of education influencers, including President Joel S. Bloom, who was named Influencer of the Year.

Federal funding supporting New Jersey’s “Opportunity Meets Innovation” higher education challenge will introduce Newark high school students to forensic science as a pathway to college – and a STEM education – under a new program from New Jersey Institute of Technology.