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While shares in foreign firms known as American depositary receipts (ADRs) can help diversify investors’ portfolios and fetch high returns, they also pose risk in countries where protections for investors are limited and firms’ information environments – the quality, quantity and timing of earnings releases – are unpredictable or opaque.

Finance researchers Zhipeng (Alan) Yan and Xinyuan (Stacie) Tao are examining how the stock-price activity of ADRs, which are traded in the U.S. financial market and denominated in U.S. dollars, reflect these uncertainties.

In this unprecedented era of the COVID-19 pandemic and many other disruptive occurrences, the landscapes of society, industry and academics have been and will continue to be reshaped. Resilience and sustainability have become more imperative than ever before, and leveraging innovative technology to embrace the new normal is a strategic necessity.

When Mike Amegashie ’09, owner of Clyver Interview Prep, was invited to attend InnovateNJ’s inaugural “happy hour” for New Jersey entrepreneurs, he jumped at the opportunity to participate.

In response to the extreme challenges to clinical capacity posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, three New Jersey institutions – New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation – are collaborating in a unique partnership on the development of modular, mobile medical care facilities to be deployed to areas of surging disease outbreaks and other disasters, as well as to regions that lack health care infrastructure.

More than 20 employers have been recognized by NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS) as the university’s top recruitment partners, based on their 2019 hiring numbers. The honors mark the seventh consecutive year that CDS has paid tribute to employers for their engagement with and recruitment and hiring of students.

Cesar Bandera, associate professor of entrepreneurship at Martin Tuchman School of Management, has been named a Master Teacher by NJIT’s provost. The designation is the highest distinction given to a tenured faculty member at the university who has a sustained and recognized record of teaching excellence.

For much of her career, Oya Tukel, dean of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management and a professor of supply chain management, has researched problems in resource-constrained project scheduling that can cause significant delays, particularly for large, complex projects that require thousands of activities.

“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and for epitomizing what “Jersey Strong” is all about.

Thousands of students earned their degrees this year at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Here is a collection of their stories, focusing on what they're doing next. Click on the headlines below to read more.

First-year students applying to New Jersey Institute of Technology for entry in the Fall of 2021 and Spring of 2022 can choose to not submit SAT or ACT scores. This does not apply to Albert Dorman Honors College or accelerated program applicants.

“NJIT is committed to the highest standards in education, and our admissions staff members take a holistic approach in examining all components of an application including rigor of academic coursework, grades, letters of recommendation and extracurricular activities,” said Fadi P. Deek, provost and senior executive vice president.