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Senior Success: Women's Basketball Milena Bajic

Thursday, May 21st, 2020
NJIT broadcaster Mike Ventola caught up with senior Milena Bajic from the NJIT women's basketball team after finals to discuss Bajic's career at NJIT and what is next for the Highlander alum. Bajic joined the Highlander squad in 2017-18 after playing two seasons at Memphis.  After s...

Senior Success: Biology Major Chloe Jelley is an Entomologist-in-the-Making

Thursday, May 21st, 2020
As a kid growing up in Omaha, Neb., Chloe Jelley ’20 had a major aversion to insects that many can relate with. “I was one of the more careful kids and I was not into bugs at all when I was young … actually, I was really afraid of all bugs,” recalled Jelley. That didn’t really change much by ...

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...

Adapting to a Pandemic: What was Gained and What was Lost

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic presented some challenges that may have been unique to the students and faculty in the Hillier College of Architecture and Design (HCAD). Architecture and design are taught in a collective process, with students working together in large studios and maker spaces, where the inte...

NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 5/18/20-5/22/20

Monday, May 18th, 2020
Here you will find a weekly listing of updates and announcements for members of the NJIT campus community. Announcements are to be submitted through the form found at https://forms.gle/V6PBxUy5b3jkErMc8 or by your area vice president to Deric Raymond, director of content planning and intelligence, i...

Senior Success: Katharine Ilyutovich Will Begin Her Career as a Business Analyst

Monday, May 18th, 2020
Ask Katharine Ilyutovich what she will miss most about NJIT after graduating this May and she will promptly tell you “the people.” “It’s just nice that I can walk in and people will know who I am and just talk to me about whatever,” said the business major, referring to the kinship she has found ov...

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...

Student's App Helps Organize Remediation of Lead Pipes for Water Supply

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
A recent graduate in computer science played a small but important role in fixing the city of Newark's problem of lead in its public water supply. The student, Sammy Faraj, did his part by developing a database and mobile application for Newark-based Roman E&G Corp., which needed to organize ph...

NJIT Senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz Lands Merck R&D Internship to Work on Vaccines

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Biochemistry senior Alejandra Lopez-Diaz hasn’t wasted much time during her past three years at NJIT. Outside of class, she’s spent most of her free hours inside the university’s labs researching an aspect of time itself — our circadian clock, or the internal biological clock that helps takes us thr...

Senior Success: Sravya Vegunta Is Going to Medical School

Thursday, May 14th, 2020
“It’s a little bittersweet to have to leave without being able to say proper goodbyes to everyone,” lamented Sravya Vegunta, a senior Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholar, about graduating from NJIT during the coronavirus pandemic. “But I’m definitely glad to be moving on to that next stage,...