New Jersey Innovation Institute Announces Sale of its Subsidiary, BioCentriq, for $73 Million

Monday, May 16th, 2022
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) announced on May 16, 2022, the sale of its subsidiary, BioCentriq Inc., to GC corp. for $73 million. BioCentriq manufactures autologous and allogeneic cell therapies and gene therapies and specializes in viral vector production, cell and viral banking, and ...

David Marcano Named to COSIDA Academic All-District Team

Monday, May 16th, 2022
David Marcano, a graduate student on the NJIT baseball team was named COSIDA Academic All-District II, it was announced on Thursday. Marcano, the team's shortstop who has played in and started 41 of 42 games this season, leads the Highlanders (21-21) in batting average (.333), while ranking second ...

NJIT Ranked No. 14 Nationally in Money's 2022 List of 'Best Colleges'

Monday, May 16th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is ranked No. 14 overall in the United States by Money in their list of Best Colleges for 2022. Money evaluated more than 600 institutions focusing on 24 factors in three main categories that surveys have shown are the most important to students: quality of ...

Walking with Paralysis

Friday, May 13th, 2022
Strapped into an exoskeleton, Damyane Evely strode heavily back and forth across a 15-foot platform, taking an occasional peek at a monitor on the wall to survey his progress — and to silently marvel. It had been more than 15 years since his spinal cord was compressed in a motorcycle accident, landi...

NJIT Business Major Charis Hwang Lines Up PwC Role - But First, a Master's

Friday, May 13th, 2022
Charis Hwang packed a lot into her four years studying business at New Jersey Institute of Technology, including three internships and a cooperative educational experience. That thick undergraduate resumé may explain why even before completing an accelerated master’s program, she landed a job with g...

Senior Success: Architect, Student-Athlete Sydne Nance Joins Studio 1200

Thursday, May 12th, 2022
Sydne Nance's journey from NJIT architectural summer camp to track star to chapter president to professional designer was fueled by the confidence she gained through the university's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). Nance, an Albert Dorman Honors scholar of Westampton, New Jersey, will start f...

Joseph Kennedy, Business Major and Volleyball Player, Heading to Georgetown

Thursday, May 12th, 2022
Joseph Kennedy has arms for volleyball, but now he's also armed with a B.S. in business from Martin Tuchman School of Management and will make Georgetown University his next stop for an M.S. in finance. Kennedy, from Tucson, Ariz., discovered at 15 that he preferred the rush of volleyball more than ...

Senior Success: Badeti, Student Senate Prez, Working at Bloomberg

Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Anuja Badeti started interning at Bloomberg in high school, kept working there during summer breaks from college and will accept a full-time role upon her graduation from the joint B.S./M.S. program in computer science this spring. It's a strikingly logical career path, considering her childhood dr...

Sara Obead - ECE PhD Student of the Month - May 2022

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Sarah Obead is a soon-to-be-hooded Ph.D. from the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Ms. Obead worked under the advisement of Professor Joerg Kliewer and has successfully defended her dissertation on April 27...

Students Earn High Marks in a Return to Engineering Competitions

Tuesday, May 10th, 2022
Students from NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering have earned first, second and third place recognitions across steel bridge, chemical car and concrete canoe events held for inter-institutional competition. The steel bridge regional competition made its return for the first time since COVID restric...