For many of the begowned graduates, it was the happiest day of their lives.It was the culmination of years of study, self-denial and perseverance. It was the day on which they received their... read more!

Sally Allam received a diploma and a diamond ring on the same day -- a day that was doubly blissful for her.As NJIT’s Commencement drew to a close, Sally and the other newly-minted... read more!

In high school, Anjali Das already had the heart of a humanitarian. She was co-president of a student group that focused on AIDS prevention. She supported HIV-infected orphans, writing letters to... read more!

Nevedha Rajan left her home in Oregon to come to NJIT.It wasn’t easy leaving her family and traveling 3,000 miles for college. But she wanted to enroll in a pre-med program without saddling... read more!

Ruchika Talwar's mother didn’t want her to be a doctor. She was a doctor herself and knew firsthand the hard work and heartbreak that are a doctor’s daily fare.During high school,... read more!

Ever since she was a girl, Jilyan Decker had an impulse to help living creatures.At first, the impulse manifested itself in a love for animals: As a child she wanted to be a vet. But as she got... read more!

Yazdan Majdi came from Iran to study civil engineering at NJIT. He already had a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from an Iranian university but he wanted to do his Ph.D. abroad.He... read more!

Not many college seniors turn down job offers from Google. But Andrew Lam did. It was a tough decision, but it came down to following his passion.Verizon Wireless offered him a job working on... read more!

In the summer before her senior year, Nkem Okoye fielded job offers from two top investment banks: Barclays and Morgan Stanley. Investment banks make early offers like that only to exceptional... read more!

Michael Anderson has a dream job: He’ll work as a design engineer for the company that built SpaceShipTwo, the space plane now being tested for commercial space flight.The company, Scaled... read more!