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NJIT Community Updates and Announcements 3/8/21-3/12/21

Monday, March 8th, 2021
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. Those submitted by each Thursday will be included in the following week's Updates and Announceme...

Retirement of Ed Bishof, Sr. Vice President for Finance and CFO

Sunday, March 7th, 2021
I write today to announce that Ed Bishof, NJIT’s Sr. Vice President for Finance and CFO, will be retiring as of June 2020 after more than 33 years of service to our university. I am happy for Ed and his wife, Debbie, but know that we will miss Ed’s talent, knowledge, and dedication. Ed has brought i...

Grant-Funded Tech Program Enables Future of Interactive Learning

Friday, March 5th, 2021
A plan to develop the next generation of digital learning is now underway at NJIT, made possible by a $385,000 grant from the Martinson Family Foundation, university officials announced this month. The three-year program known as VITAL@ NJIT — Virtual, Immersive, Technologically Augmented Learning ...

NJIT Alum Ryan Brown Kicks Off Super Bowl LV with the CBS Sports Team

Thursday, March 4th, 2021
If you were one of the 96.4 million viewers of this year’s Super Bowl LV, chances are you were watching the work of NJIT alum Ryan Brown flash across your TV screen all night without realizing it. Since leaving NJIT with a Communications and Media B.A. degree, Brown ’15 has moved into the posi...

Q&A with NJIT Alum Lorraine Nunes: My Journey from Brazil to Community College to NJIT to Accenture

Thursday, March 4th, 2021
Just two months after earning a bachelor’s at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Lorraine Nunes '20 landed her first big job, as a software architect analyst at Accenture.  Nunes, who majored in business and information systems, graduated in December after transferring from Hudson County Comm...

NJIT Theater Debuts Zoom-Based Reboot of 15th Century Play 'Everyman'

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
The Rutgers-NJIT Theatre Program is taking the classic late-medieval period morality play, Everyman, into the digital age.  The cast and crew have recently debuted their spin on the original for online streamers — titled Every_01: A Morality Play — where audiences...

Luca Berger Selected Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
Graduate student Luca Berger has been selected Sports Imports/AVCA Player of the Week the organization announced on Tuesday. This is the second career honor for the Highlanders middle blocker. Berger helped lead the Highlanders to a series sweep of Saint Francis U on Thursday and Friday ...

Partnerships Flourish in Industrial Affiliates Program

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021
As companies increasingly seek outside help to understand and implement emerging technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is playing an increasingly broader role in helping companies achieve this goal. YWCC does this through its Industrial A...

Women's History Month

Monday, March 1st, 2021
NJIT community members, Throughout the month of March, NJIT will be celebrating Women’s History Month. As we do so, we will highlight the successes of women at and from our university as well as the impact of women on NJIT, in our society, and throughout our world. NJIT’s Murray Center for Women i...

Men's Volleyball Checks in at No. 12 in Week Six NVA/AVCA Coaches Poll

Monday, March 1st, 2021
The NJIT men's volleyball program checked in at No. 12 in the recent National Volleyball Association (NVA)/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division I-II Men's Coaches top-15 poll the organization announced on Monday. Previously ranked No. 14, the Highlanders moved up two spots after ...