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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...

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...

Jheryl Wilson: NJIT Basketball Legend, NBA Digital Media Globetrotter

Monday, July 16th, 2018
When Edward Jheryl Wilson graduated from NJIT in 2011, he did so in heroic fashion — etching his name in university lore by leading the Highlanders to their first winning season since joining the elite ranks of Division I basketball in 2006 — and becoming NJIT’s first Division I 1,000-point scorer i...

Look Who's Back! Alumni Return to NJIT as Recruiters

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
The Spring 2018 Career Fair held this past February at NJIT’s new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) was alumna Whitney Randolph’s first time back on campus since she graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering in 2017. The reason for her visit was not to look for ...

NJIT Management Grad Named Student of the Year

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Rashmi Ketha recently earned two new titles: NJIT Master of Science in Management (MSM) graduate and New Jersey Career Center Consortium (NJC3) Student of the Year for 4-Year Technical Institutions. As the former, she would like to apply her foundational knowledge gained at NJIT to pursue further ed...

MBA Alumnus Carves Global Career Path in Medical Technology

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Eight years ago, while working as a business development manager for diagnostic testing company CGC Genetics in his native country of Portugal, Rogerio Henriques ’15 was sent to the U.S. for an assignment that happened to be based in the Enterprise Development Center (EDC) at NJIT. It was then that ...

2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards Celebrate Success at Intersection of Art and Science

Friday, May 4th, 2018
This May, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) celebrated a year of standout achievements from its faculty, staff, students and alumni at the 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards Ceremony.  The annual springtime event recognized outstanding research and academic excelle...