Samara Augustin arrived at New Jersey Institute of Technology as one of the first Mayor’s Honors Scholars and leaves as an Albert Dorman Honors Scholar and GEM Fellow. In her years in University Heights, Augustin — who’s from Newark and attended NJIT with her twin sister, Samantha — helped younger students as a member of the STEMentors Club and made the Dean’s List, among other accomplishments. And through it all, she had the support of the university’s Educational Opportunity Program. Now, the Class of 2023 scholar is off to New York University to build on her bachelor’s in computer…

New Jersey Institute of Technology will award more than 3,500 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at its 107th commencement across two days of celebration. The university also will award three honorary degrees and welcome guest speakers. Visit https://commencement.njit.edu/ for all the details. Undergraduate Ceremony WHEN: Friday, May 19 at 9 a.m. (Doors open at 7:30 a.m.) WHERE: Prudential Center, 25 Lafayette St., Newark  KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Kim Hanemann, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. Before ascending to COO in January 2020, she held numerous…

Gabriel Arcanjo's NJIT journey took him full-circle, from attending a Saturday game development program as a high school student to teaching in the same program as a college senior. Arcanjo graduates in the Class of 2023 with a B.S. in information technology and starts his career as an application developer for ADP, a giant in the payroll software industry and prominent sponsor of NJIT career fairs and hackathon events. Highlander life began for him at age 17, when a friend at Kearny High School became a student in the Real World Connections program that lets Ying Wu College of Computing…

Students at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have again achieved an impressive amount of prestigious awards this year with 11 students earning nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Their achievement continues NJIT run, with Highlanders amassing 34 of these awards in the past three years. The increased achievements are not by chance. NJIT students have always had the opportunity to apply, and their proficiencies and experiences have long been sufficient. Rather, the increase is due in large part to the university and the Albert Dorman Honors College allocating…

The global life sciences and health care giant Bayer has partnered with New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Stevens Institute of Technology to create unique learning opportunities for data science students that will educate, engage and inspire the next generation of STEM talent in New Jersey. As part of Phase One of this new collaboration, Bayer's Consumer Health North America division will offer students from NJIT and Stevens multiple avenues to engage with the company, including capstone projects, co-ops, summer internships and sponsored R&D projects. Bayer employees will…

Dr. Teik C. Lim was installed as NJIT’s ninth president in a ceremony that welcomed students, alumni, faculty, staff, elected officials, family and friends to NJIT’s Wellness and Event Center. “The inauguration of a new president is a milestone occasion in the life of any institution of higher education – and NJIT is certainly no exception,” said Mistress of Ceremonies Marybeth Boger, vice president for student affairs and dean of students. “Today’s ceremony is an opportunity to celebrate our university’s history and heritage, to reaffirm the uniqueness of our mission and to highlight our…

If ever the student coordinators of the annual JerseyCTF Competition proved they could hack it, this year tested their skill and endurance in real-time as never before. New organizational leadership and partnerships transpired to attract 1,515 registrants comprising 801 teams from across the globe to crack a total of 60 cybersecurity-based puzzles, exceeding the already record-shattering 2022 edition of the event. This year, the competition was held virtually as well as on-campus at NJIT, a pre-COVID return to the immediate, human reality of the in-person experience. The addition of hosting…

New Jersey Institute of Technology maintains its national reputation for return on investment and career placement in 2023 rankings from The Princeton Review. Among public schools, The Princeton Review ranked NJIT No. 11 on its list of the Top 20 for Best Career Placement and No. 35 on its list of the Top 50 Best Value Colleges.  Also, for the sixth straight year, NJIT is featured on The Princeton Review’s master list of Best Value Colleges, a select group of 209 culled from a survey of more than 650 colleges and universities in the U.S. The honorees include 135 private schools and…

New Jersey Institute of Technology further burnishes its reputation in engineering and computer science in the latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) now ranks No. 77 on the publication’s list of the Best Engineering Schools in the U.S. — up eight notches from last year. It’s the eighth consecutive year that NCE has made the top 100. “NJIT’s continued rise in the top 100 reflects our intentional investment in hiring first-rate faculty, building and maintaining world-class research facilities and attracting the most…

Some of NJIT’s brightest up-and-coming researchers grabbed center stage on campus at the Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, a springtime tradition that continues to highlight student ingenuity and diverse research accomplishments across the university’s six colleges. For participants of the 18th annual research competition, it was a special opportunity to connect with the campus community by discussing their recent discoveries and innovations, most of which have been years in the making. “The Dana Knox Student Research Showcase provides us with an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the…