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Meet Dora Gomez, Fraud Examiner and Alumni Chapter Lead

Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Dora Gomez ’18 walked the cozy, private dining room of Seasons 52 in Paramus, New Jersey greeting fellow NJIT alumni and swapping stories like she has done it dozens of times before. In truth, this was her first time helping to organize an NJIT alumni event as the new volunteer organizer for the nor...

NJIT Career Fair Growth Fuels Changes, Innovations for Improved Experiences and Outcomes

Monday, February 27th, 2023
NJIT’s Career Development Services hosted its marquee event, again besting attendance and participation numbers over its previous career fair. Taking a page out of the logistics-improvement playbook of participating companies like UPS, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon and others, CDS implemented chan...

FEMA's Marc K. Raoul '10 Helps Disaster-Struck Communities Recover and Rebuild

Monday, February 27th, 2023
Since 2011, NJIT alumnus Marc K. Raoul ’10, an emergency management specialist for FEMA, has traveled across the U.S. and its territories to help communities recover and rebuild following hurricanes, floods and pandemics. A veteran of Hurricanes Sandy (2012), Irma (2017) and Maria (2017), he’s been ...

NJIT Alumna, Pamela Ospina, Recognized in Interior Design Magazine's 30 Under 30

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Pamela Ospina ’18 was selected and recognized in Interior Design Magazine’s top 30 designers under the age of 30. Ospina, a Paramus, New Jersey native, works at M Moser Associates in New York City. “I am very appreciative of the opportunities that have been presented to me,” said Ospina. “I work wi...

US Congress Recognizes NJIT for Providing Mobile Vaccination Center in Queens

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) was recognized by the 117th United States Congress for its role in providing a mobile medical care unit (M2CU) to aid in COVID-19 vaccination and testing. The M2CU was developed through a collaboration by NJIT, University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman ...

NJIT Alum's Company Dazzles Earth, Converts CO2 to Diamonds

Monday, February 13th, 2023
By Deric Raymond and Perla Alay Cut, color, clarity and carat are the four Cs of the diamond industry. Aether, a new company producing lab-grown diamonds, is pushing to add one more — carbon origin. As the demand for sustainable and ethically sourced products continues to rise, the market for lab-...

Sayyid Ali '17 Among '30 Under 30' by Forbes for Corporate Diversity Startup

Thursday, February 9th, 2023
Sayyid Ali, a 2017 alumnus of NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, recalled a job interview at a software company in New York where the only other Black person he saw was the elevator attendant — and now he's on a mission to prevent that from happening to anyone else. Ali and his three co-founders ...

Exalumno Bob Medina elegido para presidir la Junta de Supervisores de NJIT

Friday, January 27th, 2023
El exalumno de NJIT Bob Medina, graduado en 1975, ha sido elegido presidente de la Junta de Supervisores de la universidad, reemplazando a la exalumna Marjorie Perry, quien completó su segundo mandato en diciembre. Medina, quien co-fundó el Consejo de Liderazgo Hispano y Latinx (con siglas en inglé...

Kelsey Jackson '14 Wins Common Bond Scholarship from AIA New York and the Center of Architecture

Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Kelsey Jackson ‘14 was recently awarded a Common Bond scholarship during the Common Bond: The Center for Architecture Gala. Jackson has been dedicated to integrating her experiences in education and architectural design to uplift historically Black cities and communities. Every year at Common Bond,...

Alumnus Bob Medina Elected to Chair NJIT's Board of Overseers

Friday, January 13th, 2023
NJIT alumnus Bob Medina ’75 has been elected chair of the university's Board of Overseers, succeeding fellow alumna Marjorie Perry, who completed her second term in December. Medina, who co-founded NJIT’s Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) and is the first Hispanic to chair the Board of ...