Monica Weglarz Wins Best Early-Stage Startup Award at UPitch Competition

Friday, May 20th, 2022
Recent NJIT alumna Monica Weglarz envisioned a company delivering fuel and mechanic services while you're at work, offered as an employee benefit, in turn earning her a $1,500 award for the best early-stage startup at the 2022 UPitch New Jersey business plan competition. Weglarz said the research th...

Eclectic NJIT Engineering Grad Will Andrews to Study International Development in Dublin

Thursday, May 19th, 2022
The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and accelera...

NJIT Professors Prime Jada Evans for UCLA School of Law

Wednesday, May 18th, 2022
Jada Evans had a plan when she arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2019 and achieved it – and then some – ­in just three years. Beyond a finding a major that matched her dual interests in law and technology and honing her skills as a writer, the Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar imme...

NJIT's Class of 2022 Urged to Seize the Opportunities Presented by Crises

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Crisis presents opportunity, and given the pandemic, war in Ukraine, structural racism, climate change and questions around the world’s supply of energy, food and water, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson called on the Class of 2022 at New Jersey Institute of Technology t...

Pradnya Desai Awarded in Startup Competition, Off to Microsoft

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Pradnya Desai, a senior computer science major, made it her mission to accomplish as much as possible during her four years at NJIT, amassing an impressive resume that includes multiple awards and recognitions for her work combining technological invention with a desire to positively affect society...

Senior Success: Sreya Sanyal Is Off to Become an NIH Researcher

Monday, May 16th, 2022
Sreya Sanyal ’22 is right where she wants to be in the fight against cancer — at the cutting-edge of medical research. She’ll soon be using the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “genetic scissors”, to study human disease as a post baccalaureate researcher with the ...

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...