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A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The impact sets off a chemical reaction in the brain that ravages neurons and the networks that supply them with nutrients and oxygen.

One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the university as Mayor’s Honors Scholars.

A five-woman team of undergraduate engineering students is tackling a problem experienced by a diverse and growing population: balance instability. For the elderly, people recovering from strokes and accidents or those living with disorders that affect movement, such as Parkinson’s disease, falls present the risk of grave injury.

With funding from the Hearst Foundations, the team is taking aim at the mechanics that lie at the heart of the problem, determining with precision – and on a step-by-step basis – when, where and how an individual loses stability.

Stephanie Iring grew up in a working-class community in New Jersey, where, she says, social status and educational inequality were closely related and opportunities for success were limited.

Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe.

A campus-based health care startup with a device that employs virtual reality gaming to correct a vision dysfunction – technology designed and developed by a professor and a team of students, now alumni, in a biomedical engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) – has received a $500,000 commitment from Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC, an affiliate of New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF).

Whether they’ll be soaking up cultures abroad in the coming year or advancing research in science, health care and other fields, all of the NJIT students receiving prominent and highly competitive scholarships and fellowships in 2019 are, in a word, impressive. In fact, two university records were achieved: For the first time, an NJIT student earned the David L.

The young CEO of a new healthcare company, two undergraduate students building tech-driven start-ups, a professor of entrepreneurship and NJIT VentureLink’s director of commercialization were all named “2019 STEM Leaders: Innovators to Watch” this week by the New Jersey Tech Council.

The life expectancy for those living in Chad is less than 50 years. In Swaziland, 26% of the population is HIV positive. These statistics are just some indicators of a much larger global health crisis. But what possible role can technology play in addressing this crisis and what can biomedical engineers do to help? Can simply donating medical equipment from developed countries to underdeveloped regions solve the problem?

NJIT offered the best biomedical engineering program for undergrads in New Jersey according to the 2020 BestValueSchools.com rankings. This program is also ranked sixth nationally. NJIT's biomedical engineering program is part of the Newark College of Engineering (NCE), the oldest and largest professional engineering school in the United States.