Four of NJIT's online graduate programs placed among the top 100 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities. While studying online became an important academic offering in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NJIT has long offered both fully online and partial, or hybrid, online degree programs as part of the university’s vision of a global campus. The publication ranked Highlander online master's degrees 27th-best for information technology, 56th for engineering, 91st for business generally and 100th for the Master's of Business Administration specifically…

Chang Yaramothu '13H MS '14 Ph.D. '17, a biomedical engineer who develops diagnostic and therapeutic devices for concussion-related vision disorders, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry just two months after joining the NJIT faculty as an assistant professor of engineering technology. As a postdoctoral researcher in engineer Tara Alvarez’s laboratory at NJIT, Yaramothu designed novel concussion diagnosis procedures using eye movements and virtual reality (VR) headsets in pediatric populations. He focuses on three metrics – the number of eye movements, balance and neuronal…

This month, three-time NJIT alum and new Board of Trustees Chair Robert C. Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87 was promoted to President of Digital, Robotics and Enabling Technologies at Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, with facilities in N.J.  Alongside his longstanding connection to NJIT — serving on Newark College of Engineering’s Board of Visitors for over 10 years before joining the Board of Trustees in 2018 and becoming chair this year — Cohen has forged an exemplary career at the intersection of technology and medicine, and…

A month after ROI-NJ named five NJIT administrators Higher Education Influencers, the publication recognized Treena Livingston Arinzeh and Angela Garretson as 2020 ROI Influencers: People of Color. Treena Livingston Arinzeh Arinzeh is a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering known for her research in adult stem cell therapy. In particular, ROI-NJ cited her fellowship at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering — “an honor given to less than 2 percent in the field” — and her roles as co-principal investigator and director of diversity at the…

Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after suffering an allergic reaction and found herself short of funds to cover her co-payment. “This is the first time I’m living outside of my family’s house and I’m far from my home in Kolkata, India. As an international student, you arrive in a new country and have to figure out how to manage all…

A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure – and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional screening methods. The paper was published online by the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. DNA methylation is involved in many key cellular processes and is an important component in gene…

In 2019, Owais Aftab was in search of a summer research project to meet his degree requirements for independent study. The biomedical engineering/pre-health Albert Dorman Honors College scholar, then a first-year student, found what he was looking for after a conversation with one of his teachers, John Vito d'Antonio-Bertagnolli ’16, M.S. ’17. D’Antonio-Bertagnolli introduced Aftab to Antje Ihlefeld, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and director of NJIT’s Neural Engineering for Speech and Hearing Laboratory, who had a project involving a screening device focused on auditory…

As it embarks on clinical trials at children’s hospitals across the country, a novel vision therapy device developed by NJIT engineers is generating streams of data on eye movements in need of rapid and precise analysis. Enter Ayushi Sangoi ’20*, coder par excellence, to the algorithmic rescue. As a senior capstone project, Sangoi and her teammates designed an automated eye movement analysis program called RETINAS to process the blinks, saccades (rapid, jerky motions) and vergent movements (coordinated action by both eyes to focus on near objects) the study participants produce.…

Footage of emergency room workers managing overflow crowds of gravely sick patients with deftness, humanity and visible emotion has been nightly, gut-wrenching viewing for millions of Americans over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. For senior Soojin Kim, those often-harrowing scenes prompted one thought: “I’m in.” “I wish I could have been a first-year resident going into one of those hospitals. To be able to help out so much, I gladly would have done it,” said Kim, a biomedical engineering major who heads to Rowan University’s Cooper Medical School this fall, where she plans to…

For the students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — the pandemic is deeply personal. Mark Pothen ’22, a mechanical engineering major at NJIT, for example, hears stories from his mother, a physician working on the front line at Mountainside Hospital. Adé Kolade ’23, an Honors scholar who is studying electrical engineering, is the son of a doctor and a public health nurse-turned nursing professor. And Ruth Fiore ’21, a biomedical…