New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to Confer More Than 2,600 Degrees at 98th Commencement Exercises on May 20

WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will award more than 2,600 baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees at the 98th Commencement exercises. The university also will confer honorary degrees on three individuals.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 9 a.m. A live broadcast can be viewed at www.njit.edu

WHERE:  Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey

WHO:

NJIT President Joel S. Bloom will preside over the ceremony.

Commencement Address and Honorary Degrees: Clement Alexander Price, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark Campus, and Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, will deliver the 2014 Commencement address and receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. John M. Dionisio, Executive Chairman of AECOM, and Robert S. Dow ‘69, who was Managing Partner at Lord Abbett & Co. before retiring in 2012, each will receive an honorary Doctor of Science.

Student Speaker: Johnathan Weiss, of Wantage, will give remarks on behalf of the student body.

STUDENT STORY

Margaret Christian ’14, a biomedical engineering major from Lake Hopatcong, was accepted into the nation’s top medical schools and, after much deliberation, will attend Columbia University Medical School in the fall. At NJIT, she designed a surgical device that reduces the time it takes surgeons to repair heart valves. She’s now developing a prototype for the device, which she spoke about during a recent TEDx talk. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering recently named her the Outstanding Senior in her major. Read more about Margaret at: http://www.njit.edu/features/student/margaret-christian.php?utm_source=njit&utm_medium=tile&utm_content=homepage-tile&utm_campaign=topwomen-engineers-margaret.