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NJIT Celebrates an Overseer's Skills as a Leader and Dedication as an Alum

Monday, December 19th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is celebrating Marjorie Perry, an exemplary alumna and member of its Board of Overseers, for her lasting contributions to the university. Perry, president and CEO of MZM Construction Co. in Newark, N.J., supports scholarships and athletics, helps raise money for t...

Business Model Competition Addresses Societal Impact, Fiscal Prudency

Thursday, December 1st, 2022
Student entrepreneurs at NJIT's annual New Business Model Competition had one word for the experienced judges this week: plastics. It's the opposite of the revered 1967 film The Graduate, where a young Dustin Hoffman receives that single word of career advice from an accomplished friend of his pare...

NJIT Overseer Paul Profeta Ranks Highly in Real Estate 'Power 50'

Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Paul V. Profeta, founder of the Roseland-based real estate investment company and namesake of NJIT’s Paul Profeta Real Estate Technology, Design and Innovation Center, placed in the No. 3 spot in NJBIZ’s Commercial Real Estate Power 50 rankings. In its annual list, NJBIZ characterizes Profeta as a ...

NJIT Ranked Best Public School in Northeast for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the top public university in the Northeast for undergraduate entrepreneurship studies, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. The improvement reflects NJIT's and the Martin Tuchman School of Management's dedicated focus on the importa...

Scholarship-winning Student Veterans Talk Serving in the Military and Coming to NJIT

Friday, November 11th, 2022
Three student veterans at NJIT were among the first to be awarded a new scholarship administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship, named for the long-serving Massachusetts congresswoman and steadfast advocate for veterans, provides up to n...

Management Professor Wins Industry Award for Teaching and Research

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Associate Professor Junmin (Jim) Shi received a prestigious international award in October for his research and teaching on operations research and management science, known as OR/MS in the field, at the INFORMS conference in Indianapolis. Operations research and management science refers to the ap...

Tuchman School of Management MBA Program Ranked Among Best in U.S.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management offers one of the best MBA programs in the nation, according to a new ranking from Fortune. Earning a master's of business administration degree at New Jersey Institute of Technology differs from the pack because of the university-wise focus on research in...

John Gruppo Representing NJIT to Higher Ed Biz Management Organization

Monday, September 26th, 2022
It's common for the best NJIT students and faculty to receive accolades in their fields, but the latest recognition for Highlander success was awarded to a university finance leader. The honor went to John Gruppo, director of budget planning and analysis, for his selection into the Emerging Leaders...

Convocation Speakers Share Advice with Class of '26, Most Diverse Ever

Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Jennifer Hensley 15, who majored in chemical engineering and now works for Merck helping determine long-term strategies for cancer immunotherapy drugs, told the incoming class at NJIT convocation yesterday that networking and time management were the most important skills you can learn outside of th...

Newark Campus Comes to Life as Students Return, Fresh Ambitions in Hand

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology students arrived on campus en masse today, with a record 1,600 new students leading the way, plus thousands more sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students excited to start a new semester fully in-person for the first time since fall 2020. Underrepres...