NJIT marks the start of the new school year on September 2, 2009 with University Convocation, an annual celebration and awards ceremony.  The event, which recognizes the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff, will be held at 3 p.m., in the Jim Wise Theatre in Kupfrian Hall on the NJIT campus. A reception follows. >>

Arthur Ryan, chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Financial, Inc., will be the keynote speaker at NJIT's spring 2005 Commencement on May 26, 2005, which, for the first time, is being held at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford. NJIT will bestow an honorary doctor of science degree to Ryan for his outstanding professional achievements in the insurance and financial industries and for his ongoing commitment to academic excellence and service to the community. >>

Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF-Retired, who directed both the Space Shuttle program and “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative, will be the keynote speaker for NJIT’s spring commencement. >>

Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach, a Harvard University Professor of Science, who won the coveted Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1986, recently left a standing-room-only crowd spellbound at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA). >>