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NJIT's Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council and HISPA Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
The Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) along with HISPA (Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement) celebrated Hispanic Heritage month at NJIT during HISPA’s Role Model Program Kick-off and Recruiting Event. HISPA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that mobilizes Hispan...

NJIT's Wellness and Events Center Dedicated to Joel and Diane Bloom

Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
NJIT’s Wellness and Events Center (WEC) has been dedicated with a new name — the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center — for outstanding contributions made by the university’s eighth president and former first lady that span more than three decades. On Oct. 6, the campus community came to...

5 from NJIT Recognized as Champions of the C-Suite

Monday, October 2nd, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology has several of its own honored in ROI-NJ’s inaugural Champions of the C-Suite.  President Teik C. Lim and alumni Marjorie Perry, LeRoy Jones and Jeff Milanaik are among the honorees. Board of Trustees member Gary Dahms is also recognized.  Lim, NJIT’s f...

Alumna Tessy Ritchie on Shaping the MedTech Industry with the FDA

Monday, September 18th, 2023
Since graduating from NJIT in 2012 with a B.S. in chemistry, Tessy Ritchie has found success as a chemist, recently taking a leading role in shaping the future of public health and booming medical technology industry expected to reach nearly $580 billion by the end of 2023. This year, Ritchie was a...

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, and f...

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 within...

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...

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

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

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...