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A pair of NJIT men's tennis players, Amine El Kholti and Daniel Sabogal, earned spots on the Southland Conference All-Academic teams, the conference announced Thursday morning. Both student-athletes were named Second Team All-Academic.

Juniors Amira Badawi and Aya El Sayed earned spots on the Southland Conference All-Academic teams, the conference announced Thursday morning. Badawi was selected to All-Academic First Team while El Sayed was named to the Second Team.

New Jersey Institute of Technology President Joel S. Bloom has been selected as the recipient of two distinctions recognizing his leadership and success in guiding the 141-year-old institution. Bloom has won the 2022 Chief Executive Leadership Award by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II, and has earned distinction as an NJBIZ ICON.

Constance Chu, third year Interior Design student and Albert Dorman Honors scholar, has won Best in Decorate (Interior) Non-Professional category at the London International Creative Competition (LICC) for her project The Cocoon Cafe.

Alongside the wave of excitement at Commencement 2022, NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts recently decorated their star students at its annual awards ceremony. Here, a diverse group of graduates who shared CSLA’s Outstanding Student Award look back on their NJIT journey and the successes they’ll take with them.

If you can envision a future where robots need eyeglasses to accurately deliver packages and safely perform dangerous missions, then Craig Iaboni would be your local android optician. Until then, Iaboni is pursuing an M.S. in computer science at NJIT by coding new kinds of neural networks and using cutting-edge architectures to help electronic beings better see the world around them.

NJIT fifth-year Marina Arrese has been named as a First-Team selection on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 2 Women's At-Large Team, the organization announced May 19.

Recent NJIT alumna Monica Weglarz envisioned a company delivering fuel and mechanic services while you're at work, offered as an employee benefit, in turn earning her a $1,500 award for the best early-stage startup at the 2022 UPitch New Jersey business plan competition. Weglarz said the research that she conducted, and the prize she earned, will help as she becomes a law student. She's studying for the Law School Admission Test this summer while working as a paralegal and has entrepreneurial ambitions.

The bachelor’s that Donald “Will” Andrews earned at New Jersey Institute of Technology is in industrial engineering, but his heart is in international development. The 2022 graduate’s interest in global issues traces back to high school, when he participated in the Model United Nations, and accelerated after his second year at NJIT, when he tackled a Humanity in Action Fellowship that examined democracy and pluralism in modern Germany in the context of the Holocaust.

Marcos Molina, a chemical engineer with a penchant for complicated algorithms, made a tough call when deciding among Ph.D. programs at several graduate Ivy League institutions. In the end, he chose to pursue theoretical and computational research at Princeton.