Some of NJIT’s brightest students were homeschooled.Consider, for example, Michael Anderson, a senior at NJIIT who all throughout elementary and high school was homeschooled. Back then, he... read more!

Each year, the Newark College of Engineering selects a woman engineering student who to receive the Madame Mau Outstanding Female Engineering Student Award.This years’ winner is Lisha... read more!

Mary Youssef loves her major: biomedical engineering.  It’s a field, she says, that elegantly combines biology and engineering.  Biomedical engineers design and build medical... read more!

Her parents will fly in from Nigeria to see her graduate. It’s a long and costly flight – from Lagos to Newark – but they want to see their daughter walk up the stage and... read more!

Tia Montalto is a tomboy who’d rather talk about cars with the guys than sit in a nail salon with the girls. And she’s a smart tomboy to boot. She has a perfect grade point average, a... read more!

Luz Angela Zidziunas is the top-ranked student in the senior class, with a perfect 4.0 GPA. But what’s more impressive about her is this: she’s also a mother of three children who,... read more!

Many students dream of starting their own business.  At NJIT students turn their dreams into reality in classes, clubs and centers that help them hone their entrepreneurial skills. The... read more!

NJIT senior Muhammad Elgammal worked this summer as an intern for the Port Authority, and as such he got to work on the reconstruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) site.“When I first... read more!

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!

The second-richest man in the world pays for Elaine Gomez to attend NJIT.Elaine is a Gates Millennium Scholar, which means Bill Gates, by way of his foundation, pays her tuition.  Elaine, a... read more!