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NJIT's Neel Patil, Hoops Fan and Double STEM Major, Will Work at FanDuel

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
Neel Patil, a new graduate in computer science and applied mathematics, is following his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers like All-Star baseball outfielder Jim Edmonds and broadcaster Rich Eisen into the sports business. Patil will be a software engineer at FanDuel starting in July. It’s a perfect ...

Owen West Wins Goldwater Prize for His Role in Studying Self-Assembling Peptides

Monday, May 20th, 2024
His lifelong passion for baseball led Owen West, a rising junior from Point Pleasant Beach majoring in biomedical engineering, to dive into pharmaceutical research and become one of two NJIT winners of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for 2024. Growing up, all West wanted to do is pitch. “My e...

CEO to NJIT Class of 2024: Be Agents of Change and Build a Future We Can Be Proud Of

Friday, May 17th, 2024
Preaching patience, courage and resilience, MGM Construction Co. President and CEO Marjorie Perry urged the Class of 2024 at New Jersey Institute of Technology to become lifelong learners as they apply their imagination to real-world challenges. Perry, an NJIT alumna who serves on its Foundation Bo...

NJIT's 2024 Master's and Doctoral Class Make Their Mark

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology served up a full day of fanfare as its advanced degree graduates walked across the stage in the Wellness and Events Center in three commencement ceremonies on May 15. The 2024 class comprises more than 1,400 graduates and reflects the institution’s steady growth an...

More Decorated Undergrads Share Path to Success at NJIT

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Here, we conclude a two-part series in which winners of the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award at this year’s College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards share memorable experiences that highlighted their path to success at NJIT, while they also look ahead to plans after Commencement 2024. Isai...

Decorated Undergrads Share Path to Success at NJIT

Friday, May 10th, 2024
A special group of NJIT’s graduating seniors is finishing undergraduate life with a flourish — their achievements across the humanities and STEM sciences recently earned them the Outstanding Student Award at the College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards this month. In the first of a two-part serie...

From Math Success to NJIT Graduation: The Journeys of 4 Students from Newark

Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Speaker after speaker reinforced what Kevin Belfield, dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at New Jersey Institute of Technology, said about the university’s Math Success Initiative: “It takes a village to put a program like this together.” The speakers were at a campus ceremony celebrat...

NJIT's Honors College Scholars Showcase Research in Honors Interdisciplinary Research Forum

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
Close to 100 Albert Dorman Honors College scholars from Introduction to Research Writing and Introduction to Research Methods presented their semester's research, with topics ranging from TikTok influencer marketing to an analysis of healthcare in the United States. Courses provide an overview of a...

NJIT Undergrads Explore Space Weather During 2024 Total Eclipse

Monday, April 29th, 2024
While thousands traveled westward and northward from New Jersey through bumper-to-bumper traffic to reach the totality of the solar eclipse on April 8, NJIT undergraduate physics students Anneliese Schmidt ’24 and Joseph Visone ’25 were finally able to relax. For them, the race to the eclipse was ov...

NJIT's Dana Knox Research Showcase Celebrates Future Visionary Leaders

Friday, April 19th, 2024
NJIT’s annual celebration of its top student researchers kicked off at the 2024 Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, which once again highlighted a stunning array of innovation and discovery from every corner of the STEM disciplines. Now in its 19th year, the showcase competition featured 68 divers...