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7 Highlanders Make List of NJ Influencers Who Are People of Color

7 Highlanders Make List of NJ Influencers Who Are People of Color

Thursday, September 14th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is well-represented on ROI-NJ’s 2023 list of people of color who are influencers in the state.  NJIT President Teik C. Lim, Trustee Elisa Charters and Luis De La Hoz, a member of NJIT’s Hispanic Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC), made a top 25 list, a...
Aspiring STEM Students Get Immersive Experience Through NJIT-Stryker Career Day

Aspiring STEM Students Get Immersive Experience Through NJIT-Stryker Career Day

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility. Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation with...
Wall Street Journal/College Pulse Ranks NJIT No. 2 Public University in the US

Wall Street Journal/College Pulse Ranks NJIT No. 2 Public University in the US

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton Universi...
Turkey Earthquake Victim, Ibrahim Aras, Finds Hope in NJIT Business School Scholarship

Turkey Earthquake Victim, Ibrahim Aras, Finds Hope in NJIT Business School Scholarship

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
A natural disaster in Turkey brought transfer student Ibrahim Aras, who is studying financial technology, to NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. Before the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit on February 6, 2023, all was well with Aras, at the time a computer science major, who graduated from one ...
Angela Harris Signs Professional Contract With Panathinaikos

Angela Harris Signs Professional Contract With Panathinaikos

Monday, August 14th, 2023
NJIT women's soccer alumna Angela Harris has signed a professional contract to play for Greek club Panathinaikos A.C. during the 2023-24 season, the club announced Wednesday. "I am super excited for this next chapter and incredibly grateful to the Highlander family for helping me achieve ...
NJIT Computing Alumnus David Ruchman Began as Intern, Now He's the CEO

NJIT Computing Alumnus David Ruchman Began as Intern, Now He's the CEO

Thursday, August 10th, 2023
Nobody expects their summer internship to eventually lead to a job as CEO, but that's exactly what happened to New Jersey Institute of Technology computer science alumnus David Ruchman. Ruchman, who graduated in 2006 and added a computer science M.S. in 2009, became chief executive of Powersolution...
For Sam Sabet, Transferring to NJIT Led to Triple Degrees and a Dream Job

For Sam Sabet, Transferring to NJIT Led to Triple Degrees and a Dream Job

Monday, July 24th, 2023
Sam Sabet, the new Chief Technology Officer of industrial audio firm Shure Inc., has an NJIT degree for every season of his career. After transferring from American University in Cairo, Sabet arrived in Newark in 1995 and earned a B.S. in what was then called computer information systems. He return...
At NJIT, McNair Scholars Advance Research as Their Futures Unfold

At NJIT, McNair Scholars Advance Research as Their Futures Unfold

Monday, July 24th, 2023
NJIT’s McNair Scholars have been igniting their research efforts in campus labs this summer, and many are starting to see their career aspirations take shape in the process. NJIT’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement program has often been described as life-changing by those selecte...
Industrial Designer Matthew Negron Shares his Path from NJIT to President of Dauphin Americas

Industrial Designer Matthew Negron Shares his Path from NJIT to President of Dauphin Americas

Monday, July 24th, 2023
When Matthew Negron ’13, ‘16 started his education at NJIT, he was among the earliest cohorts to join the newly-formed industrial design program at Hillier College of Architecture and Design.  Initially starting as an architecture student, his interests shifted and found that the budding i...
National Academy of Construction Elects NJIT's Andrew Christ Amid Campus Transformation

National Academy of Construction Elects NJIT's Andrew Christ Amid Campus Transformation

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Andrew Christ, senior vice president for real estate development and capital operations at New Jersey Institute of Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Construction. The academy recognizes exceptional leaders from across the construction industry — including construction manage...