Like many young New Jersey commuters making the morning trek through the Lincoln Tunnel into New York City, Jenessey Amparo-Rosario Morel would shuffle through her phone’s music playlist to find familiar star names like Rihanna, Shakira and Jay-Z. However, for Morel, those particular popular artists would also become clients, and even her new boss, as she entered work for her first day of a three-month co-op role this past February.  Her destination at the time: a 40-story tower at 1411 Broadway in midtown Manhattan — headquarters of Jay-Z’s global entertainment company, Roc Nation. “I…

Meet the 2019 gonfalon carriers! The six seniors chosen to represent their schools at NJIT's Commencement reminisce about life on campus, while they begin to envisage what lies beyond.   Newark College of Engineering Olivia Hadlaw Major: Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics Hometown: South Amboy, N.J. Next up: Design and analysis engineer in the Boeing Company’s Space and Security unit in St. Louis “I’m interested in sensors. For my senior project, I worked with two friends to design a device called the…

When NJIT holds its 103rd Commencement May 21, more than 100 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) seniors will officially move on from their undergraduate study to begin the next chapter in their lives. While their plans after EOP may differ, the four years they’ve shared in the program provided them all with a uniquely supportive and familial environment. Here, we take a look at where just a few are going. Gloria Brewster Although Gloria Brewster is saying goodbye to EOP at NJIT, she’s not bidding adieu to the university. This fall, the computer engineering technology/medical…

Thousands of NJIT graduates are moving onto bigger and better things. Off to Fortune 500 companies, global engineering firms and premiere law schools, take a look at just a few of our students who are moving on as proud Highlanders.  

Jacob Ponulak, an Information Technology graduate with a specialization in management of information systems from the Ying Wu College of Computing, will be joining Merck and Co. in its IT rotational development program.

She’s scored on the basketball court as a Highlander guard and now Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM) graduating senior Jordan Ireland has realized her college-best achievement: completing MTSM’s B.S./M.S five-year program in just four years. Ireland will receive a bachelor’s in business with a concentration in accounting, as well as a master’s in management with a concentration in finance, at NJIT’s upcoming commencement ceremony. “It was rough. A lot of classes, a lot of time spent studying, getting through group projects, tests, exams,” shared Ireland on a Friday morning in NJIT’s…

While Spring Commencement is on the horizon for the Class of 2019, the first wave of year-end celebrations has already begun for a special group of award-winning seniors at NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA).  This month, an exclusive band of graduating students took to the stage at the 2019 CSLA Awards where they were recognized with the “2019 Outstanding Student Award” — an honor annually presented each spring to the year’s most exceptional student-researchers and academic achievers across the sciences and liberal arts fields at the college.  Here, some of CSLA’s…

Sitting just outside the Campus Center on a sunny, breezy Tuesday afternoon, Siri Uppuluri reflects on her upcoming graduation from NJIT. “I feel like I’ve reached a milestone, so while it’s bittersweet to be leaving campus, I also feel like I’ve been prepared by my professors academically. And in terms of personal growth, I’m ready to move on to that next step,” said the biology major and Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, who will attend Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) in the fall.   What’s indeed noteworthy about Uppuluri graduating is that she is doing so after…

Priya Ravi’s bent toward business made itself evident long before she arrived at NJIT. The soon-to-be finance graduate shares a story from her childhood that proved telling. “When my sister and I were children, my father watched a lot of financial news on TV and read the business sections of the newspaper. He would discuss it with my mom after he came home from work,” said Ravi, looking right at home in Martin Tuchman School of Management’s Ray Cassetta Financial Analysis Laboratory, just a few weeks before commencement. “My mom told me that from a young age, I would listen to their…

On May 1, the annual springtime celebration of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) kicked off, marking a year of highlights throughout the arts and sciences at the college during the 2019 CSLA Awards Ceremony.  This year’s event, held at the Campus Center Atrium, welcomed a diverse audience of CSLA students, faculty, alumni and staff, as well as special presenters and honors granted to standout performers from across each of the college’s departments, ranging from fields of law, philosophy, theatre and media communications, to STEM-driven disciplines of biology, chemistry…