Albert Dorman Honors College

Honors College Debuts Program Promoting Undergraduate Research

Thursday, July 12, 2018
Chemical engineering major Jennifer Callaghan is spending her summer on the NJIT campus working to help define the next generation of ballistic materials. Laura Gould, an architecture student, is also at the university during the summer break, using Google Street View to study the correlation between urban infrastructure and the use and creation of sacred space in Italy. As NJIT researchers, as well as Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) scholars, both Gould and Callaghan are participating in the inaugural Honors Summer Research Institute. The eight-week program, launched in early June,...

NJIT Management Grad Named Student of the Year

Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Rashmi Ketha recently earned two new titles: NJIT Master of Science in Management (MSM) graduate and New Jersey Career Center Consortium (NJC3) Student of the Year for 4-Year Technical Institutions. As the former, she would like to apply her foundational knowledge gained at NJIT to pursue further education at Harvard, with an eye toward the C-suite. And as the latter, she received a $250 cash award, which she plans to invest and also purchase a few books that are meaningful to her. “It is an absolute honor to receive this award and it is a great recognition for the work I’ve done both on...

NJIT Undergraduate Applications Jump 12 Percent Over Last Year

Monday, June 25, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is bucking an undergraduate admissions trend. While many universities are failing to hit recruitment targets and/or reducing their standards for admission due to sharp regional and national declines in the traditional college-aged population, NJIT has seen noteworthy growth this year in both applications and the average SAT score of those applicants. In fact, NJIT's applications for undergraduate admission for Fall of 2018 have grown 12% over last year (33% among out-of-state students) and the average SAT score for the incoming class...

A Gathering of Go-getters: NJIT Celebrates 2017-2018 Scholarship Recipients

Friday, June 15, 2018
The competition for scholarships and fellowships grows fiercer every year. Still, there’s good news: At NJIT, students are increasingly receiving notable awards that provide opportunities to do research, study abroad (both, in certain cases) and more. Just as the spring 2018 semester was coming to a close, a small reception was held in Eberhardt Hall to congratulate the university’s scholarship and fellowship recipients over the past year. While some have completed their assignments, others are either in the midst of or preparing for them. Here, we meet a few of the winners. Axel...

Graduates Share Diverse Success Stories Across Science and Liberal Arts

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
This spring, NJIT’s 2018 College of Science and Liberal Arts Awards honored an exclusive group of its undergraduate and graduate seniors with the CSLA Outstanding Student Award — a distinction annually given to students who have demonstrated the highest level of excellence in their field. We caught up with four of the college’s most exceptional senior students selected for the award to let them reflect on their time at NJIT and share what the future holds for them after graduation. Meet CSLA’s 2018 “Outstanding Student” Seniors: Xinglei Liu ’18, Ph.D. in Chemistry Where...

Finance Graduate Harpuneet Kaur Lands Job at IEX

Monday, May 21, 2018
Harpuneet Kaur is all smiles on a Friday afternoon as she seats herself at a table in the main communal area of The Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Research Institute for Business, Technology, and Society, on the NJIT campus. The Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) finance major is happy to have her exams behind her and the MTSM awards ceremony and NJIT commencement just ahead. Her parents have arrived from India to attend the festivities and with a full-time position awaiting her at IEX, the Investors Exchange, life is good. “Oh, it’s so exciting!” exclaimed Kaur about graduating, then...

One Graduate's Advice: When the Road to Success Gets Bumpy, Keep Driving

Wednesday, May 16, 2018
In a commencement speech that mixed humor and practicality, Student Senate President Mark Neubauer* described the road to success as navigable, if bumpy at times. As his classmates prepare to embark on it, he urged them to emulate the “traffic cones found on campus" and “be resilient.” “Being passionate about what you do is amazing. Being excited to change the world is fantastic. But passion alone will only get you so far,” he warned. “You can’t be passionate about all the dull, exhausting, and unpleasant things life will throw your way. But you can be resilient and keep on...

Graduates Encouraged to Sustain Hard Work, Passion and Kindness at NJIT's 102nd Commencement

Tuesday, May 15, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) conferred 2,885 bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the 102nd commencement ceremony May 15 at the Prudential Center in Newark. Dr. Leah Hope Jamieson, Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Engineering Education, and John A. Edwardson Dean Emerita of Engineering at Purdue University, received an honorary Doctor of Humane Science and delivered the commencement address in which she shared her perspective as a first-generation college student from Trenton, N.J. who attended graduate school at Princeton...

Past, Present, Future: Reflections From the NJIT Class of 2018

Monday, May 14, 2018
Meet the 2018 Gonfalon Carriers   Julia Garcia Gonfalon: Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) Major: Finance Hometown: Madrid, Spain Next up: Moving to Salt Lake City, Utah to work as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Garcia, a former member of Spain’s national fencing team, chose NJIT in part for its Division 1 program, but quickly found her stride in NJIT’s emerging investment community. “I’ve always been obsessed with stocks. I was reading the financial pages by 10 or 11, which my parents thought was so odd! When I got here, I was ready to take...

A Homegrown Highlander: Newark Native Jonathan Isaacs Lands Job With CallisonRTKL Architecture

Thursday, May 10, 2018
Born and raised in Newark’s West Ward, Jonathan Isaacs ’18 didn’t have to travel far to find the perfect college. “I chose NJIT because it has the dual benefit of being competitive as a university in the STEM industry, but also being affordable and providing a top-notch education for a decent price,” says Isaacs, who’s graduating from NJIT with a B.Arch. — and an architectural designer job at CallisonRTKL Architecture in New York City. “Going to school in my hometown was kind of exciting in the sense that I was familiar with my surroundings and able to stay connected to...

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