Julia Gayner, an electrical and computer engineering major with a 4.0 GPA, has been awarded a Tau Beta Pi Scholarship for 2011-12. >>

A few tugs on red cloth, a round of applause and 48 linear feet of custom mural was unveiled yesterday morning at the newly-named NJ Transit Warren St/NJIT light rail station. >>

The Warren Street Newark City Light Rail Station is getting a facelift thanks to the efforts of two NJIT Student Senate presidents (one now an alum), who ceaselessly rallied students to champion and support a plan to beautify the station’s walls with custom contemporary murals depicting the university and city.  >>

The NJIT Student Senate in association with the engineering clubs and societies is celebrating National Engineering Week (Feb. 21-Feb. 27) with a roster of fun and professional events geared to the NJIT community.  >>

Love is always in the air at NJIT and there are no better people to discuss romance than couples who met here and married. >>

Members of the NJIT Student Senate handed out free coffee, hot cocoa and doughnuts in the NJIT parking deck this morning as the university kicked off the first day of the spring semester. >>

From reviving student communities to co-inventing solar water systems, NJIT students aim to get out into the world and make life better for people. Some 11 students who shined the most when it comes to helping others recently were feted at the annual Highlander Student Achievement Awards.   >>

Leean “Coco” Orama, a senior majoring in engineering technology and president of the NJIT Student Senate, was one of only four students nationwide selected to receive an all-expense-paid scholarship to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix today through tomorrow. >>

Leean “Coco” Orama, a senior majoring in engineering technology and president of the NJIT Student Senate, was one of only four students nationwide selected to receive an all-expense-paid scholarship to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) GreenBuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix next month. Former Vice President Al Gore will be the conference keynote speaker.  >>

Baker Assaf, of Paterson, a recent graduate and former president of the NJIT Student Senate, received the Presidential Leadership Award, at NJIT’s University Convocation, an annual celebration held on Sept. 2, 2009.  >>

When Stephanie Milczarski, 25, of Montclair, a future physicist, walks at NJIT’s May 17, 2008 commencement in the Prudential Center, more than kudos may be on her mind. Milczarski didn’t arrive at NJIT until leaving a competitive physics program elsewhere, working full time several years and then slowly returning to academe as an NJIT undergraduate.     >>

Legislation that would place a $350 million bond proposal for stem-cell research on the ballot in November was approved by a New Jersey Senate panel yesterday positioning the bill for a vote by the full house during the lame-duck legislative session. The bill would boost the state's funding for labs for stem-cell and other biomedical research and allow for $50 million for a biomedical center to be established at NJIT. Donald H. Sebastian, PhD, senior vice president of research and development, and Robert A. Altenkirch, PhD, president, spoke yesterday on behalf of the expenditure. >>

Rick Foulds, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering who has pioneered a new way to educate engineers at NJIT, was recently named Teacher of the Year by the NJIT Student Senate.  "Being named Teacher of the Year is the most important award I have ever received--topping my two national Fellow selections--since it reflects the feelings of our students,” said Foulds. >>