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NJIT Alum, Prof, Entrepreneur Makes NJBIZ's List of Next Generation Leaders

Monday, August 1st, 2022
The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision the...

VentureLink-Based League Network Acquired for Tech Expertise

Tuesday, June 14th, 2022
Reentry Centers, a company in Alabama that helps former prisoners build productive lifestyles, is looking to New Jersey Institute of Technology students for its employee expansion this year. The company made their Highlander connection by hiring a fundraising expert in serial entrepreneur Jay White...

Monica Weglarz Wins Best Early-Stage Startup Award at UPitch Competition

Friday, May 20th, 2022
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 t...

Pradnya Desai Awarded in Startup Competition, Off to Microsoft

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Pradnya Desai, a senior computer science major, made it her mission to accomplish as much as possible during her four years at NJIT, amassing an impressive resume that includes multiple awards and recognitions for her work combining technological invention with a desire to positively affect  so...

Keurig Founding Engineer, Class of '82, Meets Honors College Students

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
Dick Sweeney, the Highlander alumnus and engineer who made Keurig coffee machines feasible, visited NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College last week for his first meet-and-greet with students since the COVID pandemic. Sweeney graduated with an industrial management degree in 1982 after several years o...

Paul Profeta Sees His Historic Gift to NJIT as a Family Legacy

Monday, March 14th, 2022
Paul Profeta celebrated his parents at the dedication of a new real estate research center that he has endowed at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Fred and Lynn Profeta instilled in Paul the value of education as a means to rise in status and earn respect. Fred, an Italian immigra...

Management Alum's Startup App Offers New Approach to Make Friends and Date

Friday, January 28th, 2022
Business school alumnus Tomi Antoljak wants to do for online relationships what NBC's The Voice did for singing competitions. People using his new mobile app, Hangoo, talk first — and then only get to see each other if there's a match. "My belief really is that voice is the more authentic way to c...

VentureLink Applications Open Through March 1 for Newark Minority Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Applications are now open for local business leaders of color to join NJIT's Paul Profeta Entrepreneur-in-Residence program. The program, operated by NJIT’s VentureLink incubator, initially functions as a matchmaking service between the vast collection of NJIT-developed intellectual property and Ne...

NJIT President Recognized for Support of Black Businesses

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s efforts to nurture and support businesses led by African-Americans are being recognized by a caucus of county commissioners. The caucus, New Jersey Nineteen (NJ19), comprised of Black county commissioners, bestowed an African-American Business Champion Award to ...

NJIT #34 in US, #1 in NJ for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship: Princeton Review

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management is the top school in New Jersey for undergraduate entrepreneurship and #34 in the nation, according to a new ranking by The Princeton Review, following a stream of good news for the business school and the university and with the promise of more development...