Convocation 2017 Award Winners
Overseers Excellence in Research Prize & Medal
Dr. Tara Alvarez, Newark College of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Yehoshua Perl, Ying Wu College of Computing
Newly Promoted Faculty
Promotion to Distinguished Professor
Namas Chandra, Biomedical Engineering
Craig Gotsman, Ying Wu College of Computing
Promotion to Professor
Sergei Adamovich, Biomedical Engineering
Zhiming Ji, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Shidong Jiang, Mathematical Sciences
Rongfang (Rachel) Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Neil Maher, Federated Department of History
Victor Matveev, Mathematical Sciences
Bryan Pfister, Biomedical Engineering
Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yuan-Nan Young, Mathematical Sciences
Appointment to Associate Professor with Tenure
Abdallah Khreishah, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eun Jung (Alice) Lee, Biomedical Engineering
Junmin (Jim) Shi, Martin Tuchmen School of Management
Wen Zhang, Civil and Enviornmental Engineering
Master Teachers
Edwin Hou, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Denis Blackmore, Mathematical Sciences
Excellence in Teaching Awards
Excellence in Lower Division Undergraduate Instruction:
Junmin (Jim) Shi, Martin Tuchman School of Management
Excellence in Upper Division Undergraduate Instruction:
Ellen Thomas, Martin Tuchman School of Management
Excellence in Graduate Instruction:
Ali Mili, Ying Wu College of Computing
Excellence in Instruction by a University Lecturer, Senior University Lecturer and/or Program Director:
Melodi Guilbault, Martin Tuchman School of Management
Excellence in Instruction by an Adjunct Professor:
John Lyssikatos, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Excellence in Instruction by a Teaching Assistant:
Janitha Hewa Bathagoda, Civil and Enviornmental Engineering
Excellence in Innovative Teaching:
Miriam Ascarelli, Humanities
Outstanding Contribution to Teaching at NJIT by Non-Instructional Staff:
Don Menke, College of Architecture and Design
Outstanding Professional Development in Teaching by Tenured Faculty:
Reza Curtmola, Ying Wu College of Computing
Excellence in Research:
Junmin (Jim) Shi, Martin Tuchman School of Management
Martina Decker, College of Architecture and Design
Yehoshua Perl, Ying Wu College of Computing
Edward Dreyzin, Newark College of Engineering
Horacio Rotstein, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Presidential Leadership Awards
Michael Filippidis
Undergraduate- Mechanical Engineering
John Vito d'Antonio Bertagnolli
Graduate- Biomedical Engineering
Constance A. Murray Diversity Award
Judith Sheft
NJII
Service Award
Heidi Young
Assistant to the Chair of Civil and Enviornmental Engineering Deptartment
Becton Dickinson Endowed Research Professor
Kevin Belfield, Dean of CSLA