Pre-College 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Stephanie Iring Is Pursuing Biomedical Research

Monday, August 12th, 2019
Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited. “Fortunately, my grammar school teacher recommended me to the Center for Pre-College Programs [CPCP] [at NJIT...

Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: NJIT Invests in Faculty and Student Startups

Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe. Despite the international accolade, getting VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises) out of the lab and into the ...

An NJIT-based Vision Therapy Startup Secures Major Backing from NJ Health Foundation's Venture Arm

Monday, July 29th, 2019
A campus-based health care startup with a device that employs virtual reality gaming to correct a vision dysfunction – technology designed and developed by a professor and a team of students, now alumni, in a biomedical engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) – has received a $5...

NJIT Conducts the Largest-Ever Simulation of the Deepwater Horizon Spill

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf...

Pegged at Six as an Engineer, Jakob Guido Grabs His 'Destiny' With Gusto

Monday, June 10th, 2019
Jakob Guido’s engineering talent manifested at quite a young age. In kindergarten, he was photographed playing with blocks behind a sign that read: “Future Engineer.” Months later, his first-grade science teacher observed his advanced organizational abilities and pronounced: “You’re going to be an e...

Reflections from the Class of 2019

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Meet the 2019 gonfalon carriers! The six seniors chosen to represent their schools at NJIT's Commencement reminisce about life on campus, while they begin to envisage what lies beyond. Newark College of Engineering Olivia Hadlaw Major: Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathemati...

Unprecedented Success for NJIT Students in National Scholarship and Fellowship Competitions

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were a...

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...

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...