NJIT Mourns Death of Former Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson

Monday, April 1st, 2019
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) community mourns the loss of one of its historic alumni, Kenneth A. Gibson, who died March 29. The 1962 graduate of the Newark College of Engineering (now NJIT) and recipient of an honorary doctorate from his alma mater in 1977 was the first African-Amer...

NJIT Board of Overseers Chair and MBA Alumna Marjorie Perry Shares Her Journey to Success

Friday, December 21st, 2018
Marjorie Perry ’05, president and CEO of MZM Construction and Management, sits in a meeting room inside NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center (EDC). Her well-manicured hands are folded on top of a large conference table. Pink nail polish adds a pop of color to her all-black ensemble. She removes a Ha...

Architecture Alumnus Wins Medal at the London Design Biennale

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
The London Design Biennale 2018 Medal for the most outstanding overall contribution has been awarded to architectural historian and NJIT alumnus Mohamed Elshahed ’05, who curated “Modernist Indignation,” an Egyptian installation that pays homage to Al Emara, the first Arabic-language design magazine...

NJIT Pre-Law Student Sets Out to Be Crowned Miss New Jersey USA

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
What had been a typical summer this past August all changed for Alisa Scivetti ’19 after she came across a social media advertisement browsing through her Snapchat story. The open-call advertisement encouraged applications for a chance of entering a highly selective, once-in-a-lifetime competition ...

East Coast Meets West Coast at Honors College Virtual Networking Event

Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
On a Wednesday afternoon, in a handful of rooms along the second-floor corridor of Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT students and alumni networked, albeit not in person. The five participating alumni appeared on screen via Webex from the West Coast for the college’s Virtual Silicon Valley Networkin...

Friends, Family and Fun: NJIT Celebrates Homecoming 2018

Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

Started From The Bottom, Now She's Here: An Alumna's Journey to CEO

Friday, October 12th, 2018
DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL​ Toni Vasquez-Shawan ’10 was in the sixth grade when she started her architecture career as a telephone receptionist at T.I. Vasquez Architects & Planners, Inc. (TVAP), a Manila-based architecture firm founded in 1993 by her father Topy Vasquez. The design bug bit her while ...

This Alum Implements Customer-Facing Features For Amazon

Wednesday, August 29th, 2018

For This Mechanical Engineering Graduate, NJIT Roots Run Deep

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
When NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs held its annual closing ceremony for the Bernard Harris Summer STEM Camp (BHSSC) this past July, an unplanned reunion made the event all the more sweet. Damilola Ojoye ’18, a participant of the very first camp in 2007, was in attendance to witness the camp...

The Time of His Life: Alumnus Jonathan Ferrer Designs Modern Luxury Watches

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Jonathan Ferrer sits in a cushy armchair inside the bustling coffee shop on the NJIT campus. The watch designer is in his element, casually scrolling through his phone while sipping a cup of joe amid the harmony of coffee beans grinding and milk gurgling. “I lived on campus when I was a student h...