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Unprecedented Success for NJIT Students in National Scholarship and Fellowship Competitions

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were a...

Senior Success: NJIT Graduates are Heading to Great Jobs, Grad Schools & More

Monday, May 20th, 2019
Thousands of NJIT graduates are moving onto bigger and better things. Off to Fortune 500 companies, global engineering firms and premiere law schools, take a look at just a few of our students who are moving on as proud Highlanders.

Senior Success: EOP Students Prepare for Grad School and Great Jobs

Monday, May 20th, 2019
When NJIT holds its 103rd Commencement May 21, more than 100 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) seniors will officially move on from their undergraduate study to begin the next chapter in their lives. While their plans after EOP may differ, the four years they’ve shared in the program provided th...

Senior Success: Jacob Ponulak Will Join IT Program at Merck & Co.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Jacob Ponulak, an Information Technology graduate with a specialization in management of information systems from the Ying Wu College of Computing, will be joining Merck and Co. in its IT rotational development program.

The Making of "Mr. NJIT"

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
On his first day of college, Stephen DePalma ’72 and his classmates received blunt words about their daunting engineering curriculum from then-President Robert Van Houten, clearly intended as a form of “no nonsense” motivation: “Look to your left and look to your right – one of those people will not...

Five NJIT Entrepreneurs are "Innovators to Watch"

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
The young CEO of a new healthcare company, two undergraduate students building tech-driven start-ups, a professor of entrepreneurship and NJIT VentureLink’s director of commercialization were all named “2019 STEM Leaders: Innovators to Watch” this week by the New Jersey Tech Council. The five-membe...

NJIT and Union County College Launch Joint Academic Agreement

Monday, May 6th, 2019
Union County College (UCC) students pursuing an associate degree in either science or applied sciences are now able to seamlessly transfer into a variety of bachelor’s degree programs — from engineering and architecture to computing and management, and more — at New Jersey Institute of Technology (N...

After 45 Years in the Business, Lauded N.J. Builder is Still Notching Milestones

Monday, May 6th, 2019
When Angelo Del Russo ’82 says that he “always wanted to be a builder,” he is not exaggerating. By his early teens, the young enthusiast of masonry, concrete, roofing and carpentry already had a toehold in the industry, regularly working after school and on weekends with local home remodelers in the...

EOP Awards Ceremony Marks 47 Years of Student Recognition

Friday, May 3rd, 2019
“We saw when you came in as freshmen, and you thought you knew it all. Then you realized after the first week of the summer program, do I really know anything?” reminisced Crystal Smith, interim director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), while addressing EOP graduating seniors, their ...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Is Technology the Cure for Health Care Inequities?

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
The life expectancy for those living in Chad is less than 50 years. In Swaziland, 26% of the population is HIV positive. These statistics are just some indicators of a much larger global health crisis. But what possible role can technology play in addressing this crisis and what can biomedical engin...