Carlos Figueroa will graduate from NJIT in May with a perfect grade point average. And what’s more impressive is that he’s graduating in just three years – not the usual... read more!

The Ramos sisters, Kathya and Jennifer, always excelled academically. They both graduated from high school as class valedictorians.  During their junior and senior years in high school, they... read more!

When he was a senior in high school, Jonathan Gustafson was looking for a university that would offer him four things: a biomedical engineering major, his academic interest; a volleyball team,... read more!

Paul Dupiano has an unbridled passion for learning.  Unlike most of today’s college students, he’s not a careerist – one who sees an undergraduate degree as an avenue to a... read more!

Are boys better in math and science than girls? Are boys innately superior to girls in analytical fields such as engineering?  Naturally aggressive and competitive, are boys bound to... 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!

Reginald Tomkins loves to talk about chemical engineering.  At NJIT, he is interim chairman of the chemical engineering department. But he is also a professor of chemical engineering. ... read more!

Diya Abdeljabbar, a recent NJIT graduate, will pursue a PhD in the fall at Princeton University, where he won a full scholarship to study chemical engineering.Diya excelled as a chemical... read more!

As a graduate student at NJIT, Georgia Chouzouri spends many hours a day in the lab. She is researching how to regenerate damaged bone tissue. Certain polymer composites, it is believed, can bond... read more!

When David Nare was six months old, his parents had to leave him. They left him in Zimbabwe, their war-torn homeland, to come to the West where they hoped to establish a better life for... read more!