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Celebrated Architects' Historic Gift Injects New Energy into the College of Architecture and Design

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
New Jersey Institute of Technology has renamed its College of Architecture and Design for J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier to reflect the globally renowned architects’ historic donation to the university. Their gift, the university’s largest ever, will enrich the&...

Senior Success: NJIT Graduates are Heading to Great Jobs, Grad Schools & More

Monday, May 20th, 2019
Thousands of NJIT graduates are moving onto bigger and better things. Off to Fortune 500 companies, global engineering firms and premiere law schools, take a look at just a few of our students who are moving on as proud Highlanders.  

Senior Success: EOP Students Prepare for Grad School and Great Jobs

Monday, May 20th, 2019
When NJIT holds its 103rd Commencement May 21, more than 100 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) seniors will officially move on from their undergraduate study to begin the next chapter in their lives. While their plans after EOP may differ, the four years they’ve shared in the program provided th...

Senior Success: Jacob Ponulak Will Join IT Program at Merck & Co.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Jacob Ponulak, an Information Technology graduate with a specialization in management of information systems from the Ying Wu College of Computing, will be joining Merck and Co. in its IT rotational development program.

Senior Success: Award-Winning Journeys in Arts and Sciences at NJIT

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
While Spring Commencement is on the horizon for the Class of 2019, the first wave of year-end celebrations has already begun for a special group of award-winning seniors at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).  This month, an exclusive band of graduating students took to the stag...

Senior Success: Jordan Ireland to Start Full Time at CohnReznick

Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
She’s scored on the basketball court as a Highlander guard and now Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) graduating senior Jordan Ireland has realized her college-best achievement: completing MTSM’s B.S./M.S five-year program in just four years. Ireland will receive a bachelor’s in business wit...

NJIT President Awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
Joel S. Bloom, president of New Jersey Institute of Technology, received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor at the 34th annual ceremony on Ellis Island in New York Harbor May 11. The award is presented annually to U.S. citizens who “embody the spirit of America in their salute to toleran...

The Making of "Mr. NJIT"

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
On his first day of college, Stephen DePalma ’72 and his classmates received blunt words about their daunting engineering curriculum from then-President Robert Van Houten, clearly intended as a form of “no nonsense” motivation: “Look to your left and look to your right – one of those people will not...

Track Ends Time At ASUN Outdoor Championships

Monday, May 13th, 2019
The NJIT men's and women's track & field programs completed the final day of the ASUN Conference Outdoor Championships Saturday evening at the University of North Florida's Hodges Stadium. The men's team closed the meet in 5th place, adding 43 points to their Day 1 total to finish with 55 total...

Senior Success: Siri Uppuluri Looks Forward to Medical School

Monday, May 13th, 2019
Sitting just outside the Campus Center on a sunny, breezy Tuesday afternoon, Siri Uppuluri reflects on her upcoming graduation from NJIT. “I feel like I’ve reached a milestone, so while it’s bittersweet to be leaving campus, I also feel like I’ve been prepared by my professors academically. And in ...