It was when she enrolled in graduate school that Gloria Portocarrero realized how lucky she was to have a Gates Scholarship.  The Gates scholarship, which paid for her undergraduate studies,... read more!

When Divya Gathe left India for America in the summer of 2007, she had a plan: She’d get a master’s degree from NJIT, find a job in her field -- telecommunications and networking --... read more!

After he graduated from NJIT in 2008, Oscar Tapia happily took a job as an infrastructure engineer at Ernst & Young LLP. He works in the company's global Information Technology Services... read more!

Just one week after graduating from NJIT, Jonathan Lansey (2008) was invited to give a talk at Google’s Manhattan office. While an NJIT student, Lansey studied the probabilities of... read more!

Jason Chin (2007) graduated less than a year ago from NJIT, but he already has a job that most video-game-loving college students would kill for:  He works as a quality assurance tester for... read more!

When he was a boy growing up in Bangladesh, Savio Rozario loved to play with toy cars.  He’d while away endless hours playing with his Hot Wheels®.  Just the way the cars... read more!

The Newark College of Engineering (NCE) has a distinguished history of educating first-generation students – students whose parents didn’t attend college.  These students have... read more!

Daniel Lepek, a chemical engineering major whose research involving pharmaceutical powders could help develop a new class of nano-drugs, was recently named the Newark College of... read more!

Each member of Stephanie Monteiro’s family was born in a different country: her   mother in Portugal; her father in Angola; her sister in Mozambique and she in... read more!

Owen Fitzgerald was not always an outstanding student. In high school, for instance, he did well but didn’t excel.  And that made his father suspect he was coasting -- not working up... read more!