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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 of...

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 immigran...

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 com...

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 New...

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 J...

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...

Turbocharging the Internet Fulfillment Revolution

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Sanchoy Das recalls his first jaw-dropping view of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse in 2013. The word “explosive” came to mind. Gone were the single-product sections where boxes of diapers and paper towels were stacked next to each other in neat rows. Instead, these products were dispersed throug...

NJIT Goes Into Venture Capital Business with $6.75M Plan for Next Decade

Monday, October 25th, 2021
Highlanders who want to start a business will soon have access to a $75,000 seed investment from the university's new Venture Fund as part of a 10-year, $6.75 million commitment funded by the NJIT endowment. This marks the first time New Jersey Institute of Technology will directly fund startups. NJ...

NJIT Business Incubator Offers New Programs to Minority Newark Residents

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Minorities and underserved residents in Newark will soon have unique opportunities to establish high-tech businesses, based on three new programs from the VentureLink arm of NJIT's New Jersey Innovation Institute. Great ideas can come from anywhere, but too often there aren't enough resources availa...

TEDxNJIT 2021: The Impact of Tech in a Resurgent Post-Pandemic World

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Speakers at TEDxNJIT 2021 will explain how technology impacts everything from knee-replacement surgery and the monitoring of traumatic brain injuries to how we’ll live in the wake of the global pandemic. Other speakers — including leaders from the Federal Aviation Administration and Los Alamos Natio...