This 2001 Honors College Grad is a Professor of Physics at Villanova

This year, NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Over the last two decades, the college has grown both quantitatively -- it has a beautiful new building and increasing numbers of students -- and qualitatively -- those students keep getting smarter and smarter -- so there is much to celebrate.

One of the celebratory events is the Honors College’s Class of 2019 Freshmen Retreat and 20th Anniversary Alumni Ceremony taking place on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 6 p.m. in the Naimoli Family Athletic Center at the NJIT campus. This event welcomes the incoming freshmen and brings back Honors alumni to celebrate the college’s 20 years of excellence.

Jeremy Carlo, of Bryn Mawr, graduated summa cum laude from the Honors College in 2001 with dual degrees in applied physics and applied mathematics. He then received his Ph.D in physics from Columbia University, after which he was a research associate with the National Research Council of Canada. In 2011, he was hired as Assistant Professor of Physics at Villanova University. He’s becoming a leading scholar in his field.

Carlo’s research at Villanova probes the properties of exotic magnetic materials, with a focus on what is called geometric magnetic frustration. In frustrated materials, magnetic ions are structurally arranged in a way which inhibits the development of the magnetic order. The resulting confusion leads to a variety of complicated magnetic ground states.

He has performed experiments at the nation’s most prominent research labs such as Brookhaven National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. And he’s also done research at the Canadian National Lab known as TRIUMF and at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.

Carlo credits the rigorous, yet affordable, education he received at the Honor College with starting him on his scientific career. As an undergraduate, he researched magneto resistance materials with NJIT Professor Trevor Tyson of the physics department, who gave him his first exposure to the worlds of research and of materials science.

At Villanova, Jeremy teaches course such as Electronics, Solid State Physics and Experimental Methods.

“I try to provide students with the same educational and research opportunities I received at the NJIT Honors College,” he says.

About NJIT

One of the nation’s leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a top-tier research university that prepares students to become leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. NJIT’s multidisciplinary curriculum and computing-intensive approach to education provide technological proficiency, business acumen and leadership skills. With an enrollment of 11,000 graduate and undergraduate students, NJIT offers small-campus intimacy with the resources of a major public research university. NJIT is a global leader in such fields as solar research, nanotechnology, resilient design, tissue engineering and cyber-security, in addition to others. NJIT ranks fifth among U.S. polytechnic universities in research expenditures, topping $110 million, and is among the top 1 percent of public colleges and universities in return on educational investment, according to Payscale.com.