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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...

From NJIT to NASA, Roberto Saenz Wants to Inspire Future Generations with His Story

Thursday, October 27th, 2022
Roberto Saenz, winner of the first-ever Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council (HLLC) scholarship, wants to one day be an administrator at NASA and design his own spacecraft. Saenz, a first generation Mexican-American from Union City, N.J., is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Appli...

Goldwater Scholar Creates Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring System to Implement in Newark

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022
Vishva Rana ‘23, a Goldwater Scholar, has always been interested in addressing sustainable issues. The mechanical engineering major, minoring in innovation and entrepreneurship, has been working on a real-time air quality monitoring system and hopes to see it implemented in Newark’s Ironbound. Last ...

Newark High School Students Learn About Robotics and Life From NJIT Peers

Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
Robotics club students at New Jersey Institute of Technology are mentoring their peers in robotics clubs at local high schools, striving to teach younger minds that hands-on experimentation and teamwork can take you anywhere. Umair Khan, president of the NJIT group, said his team members are working...

NJIT Ranked No. 10 Nationally in Money's 'Best College for Engineering Majors'

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology is a top 10 Best College for Engineering Majors in the U.S., according to Money. The universities in the top 10, which also include MIT, Princeton University and Georgia Institute of Technology, emerged from Money’s 2022 list of Best Colleges, which ranked NJIT No....

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...

Leader of the House Sees STEM in Action at NJIT

Thursday, April 28th, 2022
The Assistant Speaker of the House of Representatives visited New Jersey Institute of Technology to get a closer look at how STEM education and research fuels the economic mobility of the city, region and country. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-MA-05, toured NJIT’s Makerspace — the largest in the stat...

Mark Pothen, Mechanical Engineer, Working in Health Care

Monday, April 25th, 2022
Techies call it the hands-on imperative — that the best learning is by doing — and the concept is something Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, takes to heart. Pothen worked part-time this academic year as a business analyst for health care startup Axuall Inc., where he'll become an associa...

NJIT Baseball Highlighted by Likely Draft Pick Marcano and MLB's Leiter Jr.

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022
NJIT Highlander baseball had an exciting spring, with star player Julio Marcano putting his name among the school home run record books, and team alumnus Mark Leiter Jr. making it back to the majors for the Chicago Cubs. Marcano, a second baseman and outfielder, blasted his 23rd career homer Ma...

NJIT Ranked Top 100 Engineering Grad School by US News & World Report

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023 rankings for the nation’s top graduate schools, with NJIT ranked among the best for graduate degree programs in engineering. The university slots in this year at No. 86 — up two positions from the prior year and 25 positions in the past eight years ...