New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will confer honorary Doctor of Science degrees on a pharmaceutical executive and a distillation-engineering expert during its Jan. 30, 2004, commencement ceremony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Prudential Hall, Newark. >>

At 18, Karisa Solt will be the youngest student ever to graduate from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Karisa, who will graduate on Jan. 30 with a degree in Biomedical engineering, is also the university’s valedictorian. She’s already been accepted on a full scholarship to medical school, and what’s more, she’s accomplished all this having never attended high school and having gone just two years to a grammar school.  >>