NJIT's 102nd Commencement Continues at the WEC

Friday, May 18th, 2018
Following its 102nd commencement ceremony May 16 at the Prudential Center in Newark, which recognized undergraduate and doctoral students, NJIT continued the festivities at its new Wellness and Events Center (WEC) yesterday and today. There, the university conferred degrees to master’s students from...

Flourishing After FEMME: A Pre-College Success Story

Friday, May 18th, 2018
From spending her very early childhood on the island nation of Sri Lanka to moving at the tender age of 8 to the suburbs of New Jersey, Chithma Gunawardana has indeed experienced dramatic change in her life. She has also realized significant achievement: Gunawardana taught herself how to read and wr...

Executive Women of New Jersey Honored Judith Sheft at Biennial Salute to the Policy Makers Gala

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Executive Women of New Jersey (EWNJ) honored Judith Sheft, associate vice president technology & enterprise development, New Jersey Innovation Institute at NJIT, alongside 31 of New Jersey’s most influential and accomplished women leaders including special guest honoree, first lady Tammy Sn...

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 ...

NJIT Educates Next Generation of Tech Entrepreneurs

Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Found your own company and be your own boss upon graduation? Unthinkable? Not any more.  In this day and age, founding a startup is a viable alternative to working as an employee in an existing company. Especially in the burgeoning tech sector. Especially in the exciting New York region. All ...

Men Place Fourth and Women Sixth at the ASUN Track & Field Championships

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
NJIT men's and women's track & field finished competing at the 2018 ASUN Conference Outdoor Championships on Saturday hosted by North Florida. The Highlander men placed fourth with 67 total points behind Kennesaw State, Lipscomb and North Florida, and the women came in sixth with 19 points. Th...

One Graduate's Advice: When the Road to Success Gets Bumpy, Keep Driving

Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
In a commencement speech that mixed humor and practicality, Student Senate President Mark Neubauer* described the road to success as navigable, if bumpy at times. As his classmates prepare to embark on it, he urged them to emulate the “traffic cones found on campus" and “be resilient....

Cid Khode Will Put His Computer Science Degree to Use as a Developer for UBS

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
When Chidanand “Cid” Khode ’18 walked across the stage at graduation, he was able to check off a few things on his to-do list: make new friends, graduate with a degree in computer science and find a good job.  But his biggest accomplishment, he says, was honoring a personal commitment to lea...

Graduates Encouraged to Sustain Hard Work, Passion and Kindness at NJIT's 102nd Commencement

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) conferred 2,885 bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the 102nd commencement ceremony May 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark. Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Engineering Education...

Uttendorfer Becomes All-Time Hit Leader

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
Senior Jesse Uttendorfer became NJIT's all-time hit leader, Tommy Derer registered his fourth win of the season and Johnny Malatesta tabbed his fifth save of the season in NJIT's 3-2 win over Kennesaw State Sunday afternoon in ASUN Conference action at Stillwell Stadium...