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Engineering students Matt Reda and Rudolph Brazdovic, representing the New Jersey chapter of Engineers Without Borders, last year built and installed a cellphone charging station – a modified bicycle with a back wheel that turns a generator, producing 20

Pedaling for Power on a Modified Bike in a Remote Haitian Village

The technology that engineering students Matt Reda and Rudolph Brazdovic installed last year in the remote, hilly community of Milot, Haiti, was simple enough: a modified bicycle with a back wheel that turns a generator, producing 20 watts of electricity. What was less straightforward, they quickly learned, was how to manage it. Unlike devices for individual dwellings, such as water filters, the NJIT Light Cycle is a public service: a cellphone charging station for the approximately 50 people living within a mile of a regional gathering place.

NJIT Ranks First in NJ Colleges to Study Animation, Top 40 Nationally

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been ranked as one of the country’s top public colleges for animation in the 2019 Animation School Rankings published by Animation Career Review.

Watch: NJIT Mathematical Sciences Professor Releases Major League Baseball Predictions

Mathematical Sciences Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet has published his model’s projections of how the standings should look at the end of Major League Baseball’s regular season in 2019. For more than 20 years, Bukiet has applied mathematical models to compute the number of regular season games each Major League Baseball team should win. His mathematically derived projections have consistently compared well with those of so-called experts.

NJIT to Host CIT Quarterfinals on Thursday, March 28

The NJIT Highlanders will host their quarterfinal game of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) on Thursday, March 28 at the Wellness and Events Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. (Free Stream: WatchCIT.com) TICKETS: CIT Quarterfinals, NJIT vs. TBD | Thursday, March 28

NJIT Joins DIMACS as an Affiliate Partner Institute

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the newest partner in DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. DIMACS is a research-oriented consortium of Princeton University, Rutgers University, AT&T Labs – Research, NEC Laboratories America, Nokia Bell Labs and Perspecta Labs. Affiliate members, in addition to NJIT, include Avaya Labs, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Pre-dental Honors College student Mariam Habek at Give Kids A Smile Day.

Teeth Time: Pre-dental Students Volunteer to "Give Kids a Smile"

They helped provide dental care to patients 12 years old and under, leaving behind many healthier mouths. On Feb. 1, pre-dental students from NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College volunteered their time to document and collect data as part of the New Jersey Dental Association’s (NJDA) annual Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) Day.

(From left) Shiva Senthilkumar, student EMT; Dhwanil Kadakia, student EMT and student captain of the First Aid and Community Service Officer Program; and Matt Rizzo, student CSO lieutenant

Students Join the Force to Enhance Campus Safety

On any given day, they might be dressing a wound. Or they might be seeing that computers, phones and other personal property are not left unattended. Respectively, they are the student emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and community service officers (CSOs) at NJIT who, as volunteer members of a pilot program/new student club, are helping to make the NJIT campus even safer.

NJIT Aero Team Designs, Builds and Flies Their Radio Controlled Plane

NJIT Professor Elevates CT Scan Lab Work to Realm of Visual Art

For most, the stark black and white images produced through computed tomography (CT) may not ignite much imagination beyond the routine bone scans that we'd see at the radiologist's lab. However, for NJIT Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design, Mathew Schwartz, the technology has become the creative medium by which he is building a library of digital art, steeped in the niche field of x-ray photography.

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Cesar Bandera (fourth from left) with Entrepreneurial Strategy students (from left) Gary White, Araviind Krishnaraj, Yujae Yi, Rita Tabe, James Colonias, Hana Sherza and Yiting Zhu

School of Management Students Help Local and Foreign Startups

Graduate students from Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), as well as Newark College of Engineering, worked with the CEOs of nine new ventures — seven in the Newark area, one from Manhattan and one from Finland — to help develop and execute their ventures’ go-to-market strategies.

NJIT Hosts State Budget Hearing

The first public hearing on the proposed state budget by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee was held at New Jersey Institute of Technology, chaired by State Senator Paul A. Sarlo (D-Bergen), ‘92, ‘95. The 2020 budget includes appropriations totaling $36.8 billion, with a projected surplus of $1.16 billion and projected savings of $1.1 billion.

NJEDA Awards $100k Innovation Challenge Grant to City of Newark

The New Jersey Economic Development Authority has awarded the City of Newark a $100,000 grant as part of the second round of its Innovation Challenge. Last fall, nine municipalities were awarded $100,000 each in the first wave of a program designed to encourage communities to strengthen local innovation ecosystems through partnerships with higher education institutions and other strategic partners.

Pall Corporation to Invest $3.5 Million in New Innovation Partnership with NJII

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) corporation, has signed an Industry Participation Agreement with Pall Corporation (Pall) to support the development of its BioPharmaceutical Innovation iLab. The partnership will support two key centers at NJII that will advance the manufacturing of new cell and gene therapies: the Cell and Gene Therapy Development Center and the Center of Advanced Biologic Manufacturing.

Challenges, Camaraderie and Melee, All at NJIT's ACM Chapter

Stop by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) office on any given afternoon and you might find students getting help on a project for their CS 100 class, or students discussing the value of ethical hacking. Or you may catch a group of ACM members playing their unofficial video game —Super Smash Bros. Melee. NJIT’s chapter of the ACM has been around for more than a decade and has more than 70 active members.

Oya Tukel Appointed Dean of Martin Tuchman School of Management

NJIT announces the appointment of Oya Tukel to dean of Martin Tuchman School of Management, effective July 1, 2019. Tukel received her Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University and her doctorate in decision and information sciences from the University of Florida.

National Pi Day 2019: NJIT Welcomes New Jersey's Elementary School Girls to STEM LiFE

This month, the annual celebration for International Women’s Day came with a new campaign theme, “Balance for Better.” That message was in full voice last week at NJIT, as more than 200 young girls from New Jersey’s schools visited campus to learn about and showcase their abilities in all-things science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) for national Pi Day.

MTSM Professor Raja Roy

Predicting Successful Entrepreneurial Innovations

“The way we typically think about entrepreneurship is to write a business plan and then take it to a crowdfunding website or to venture capitalists to try to get funding,” said Raja Roy, assistant professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Martin Tuchman School of Management. “But how do you identify the opportunity that will capture value?”

Yi Chen, a professor and the Henry J. Leir Chair in Healthcare at Martin Tuchman School of Management

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Treatment Choices by Physicians and Patients

Electronic health records (EHRs) have become the chief tool for documenting a patient’s medical care in today’s changing health care landscape. Still, many physicians are reluctant to use this technology and when they do, they often leave behind an incomplete and incorrect file, primarily because the task of filling in the information is time-consuming and diverts attention from direct patient care.

NJIT Defeats Quinnipiac in First Round of CollegeInsider.com Tournament

The NJIT Highlanders (22-12) eliminated Quinnipiac (16-15) in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) on Monday at the Wellness and Events Center, 92-81. WATCH: NJIT MBB vs. Quinnipiac Highlights

NJ R1 Research University Partnership Awarded $29 Million Grant for Translational Research Institute

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $29 million grant to for translational science research to a university partnership consisting of Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Princeton University, through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program (CTSA).

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