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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

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WHO:

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

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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

Martina Jackson ’14, a biology major from South Brunswick, combined an abiding love of animals with a passion for science to earn herself a spot next fall at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine—one of seven schools that accepted her. Jackson, an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar who minored in philosophy and applied ethics, said her interest in becoming a veterinarian transcends the clinical. “Some people think of themselves as dominant to animals, but I believe there is life beyond ours and I am really interested in our relationship with them. We depend on them,” she says. Read more at: http://www.njit.edu/news/2014/2014-162.php.

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