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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 ...

NJIT @JerseyCity – NJIT Expands to Jersey City [TEST]

Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Starting fall 2019, New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) will offer part-time and full-time graduate-level programs in data science at a location just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the waterfront district of Jersey City. The new location wi...

Senior Success: Priya Ravi Is Headed to Goldman Sachs

Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Priya Ravi’s bent toward business made itself evident long before she arrived at NJIT. The soon-to-be finance graduate shares a story from her childhood that proved telling. “When my sister and I were children, my father watched a lot of financial news on TV and read the business sections of the ne...

NJIT Overwatch Team Talks Teamwork, Competition and Community

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
  NJIT's Overwatch Team is just one of the six esports teams on campus. The team consists of just under a dozen members that band together to compete in Overwatch competitions throughout the year. From local competitions at Rutgers to national ones in Texas, our Overwatch Team is very active...

Five NJIT Entrepreneurs are "Innovators to Watch"

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
The young CEO of a new healthcare company, two undergraduate students building tech-driven start-ups, a professor of entrepreneurship and NJIT VentureLink’s director of commercialization were all named “2019 STEM Leaders: Innovators to Watch” this week by the New Jersey Tech Council. The five-membe...

NJIT-UNA Split Friday's Twin Bill, Stafflinger Registers Shutout, Franzoni Posts 6 RBI in Game Two

Monday, May 6th, 2019
NJIT split its ASUN Conference doubleheader with North Alabama Friday with the Lions earning an 8-1 victory in game one and the Highlanders, taking the nightcap, 10-0, behind a strong pitching performance from junior RHP Tyler Stafflinger and six runs batted in from sophomore Paul Fra...

Lewis and Cooks Earn Met Writers Basketball Honors

Monday, May 6th, 2019
NJIT senior Abdul Lewis and sophomore Zach Cooks were named to the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Division I team for the 2018-19 season Chuck Stogel, president of the Met Writers, announced. Lewis, who concluded his collegiate career with 1,247 points and 1,000 reb...