Three years in, NJIT’s Math Success Initiative continues to grow in participation and results.

Designed to prime Newark high school students for college, the summer-to-spring program attracted 29 students in 2021-22, up 26% from 2019-20, according to Levelle Burr-Alexander, director of special project at NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs, which co-administers MSI with the university’s College of Science and Liberal Arts. And within the current cohort, all but one of the participants earned acceptance into NJIT.

For biology graduate Xavier Reyes, his decision to hang up his lab coat in exchange for overalls to become an organic farmer is the best way he can move the needle on sustainability.

Sreya Das, graduating this spring with a bachelor's in computer science and is headed for the cybersecurity team at financial giant JPMorgan Chase, credits much of her success to involvement with activities outside the classroom.

Das joined so many NJIT student organizations and academic commitments that she practically lost count. "The number of activities she is successfully involved in is mind boggling. I call her superwoman," Ying Wu College of Computing Professor James Geller said.

In class, on campus grounds and in Newark, students at NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College are working toward creating a greener, more sustainable urban environment in keeping with the university’s broader push toward sustainability.

The students are acting locally even while they think globally about benefits of biodiversity and hazards of climate change. Their efforts include everything from planting trees and shrubs on campus and clearing debris from nearby Branch Brook Park to reimagining the garden atop the Campus Center.

The Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) has named President Joel S. Bloom and Dr. Albert A. Dorman ’45 the first inductees to the ADHC Honor Roll, which will celebrate alumni, donors and friends who have had instrumental and long-lasting impacts on the college founded in 1995.

Biochemistry undergrad Simone Bishara ’23 has spent the past year conducting research at NJIT that could one day improve the lives of those in need of tissue transplants — that work has helped earn her a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship that’s driving her closer to her career aspirations. 

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.

Scholarships enabled Jennifer Cabral and Dominic Bosi to overcome financial hurdles and study science and engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Cabral and Bosi are both first-generation students from working-class families. As such, they needed help to afford college. Generous donors supplied that, and once enrolled, they found their callings and are pursuing them with passion.

Dick Sweeney, the Highlander alumnus and engineer who made Keurig coffee machines feasible, visited NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College last week for his first meet-and-greet with students since the COVID pandemic.

Sweeney graduated with an industrial management degree in 1982 after several years of taking night classes and attributed his success to persistence, good luck and constantly hiring smart people. He is chair emeritus of the Honors College Board of Visitors.

From an estimated pool of over 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, two NJIT students — Simone Bishara and Vishva Rana, both Albert Dorman Honors College scholars — have been named Goldwater Scholars this year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The scholarship is recognized as among the country’s most prestigious for STEM undergraduates pursuing research careers.