Department of Biomedical Engineering

Two NJIT Students Win Prestigious Fellowships to Grow in their Fields of Study

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Two NJIT undergraduates won prestigious fellowships. Olivia Kolakowski ’24 was awarded the Brooke Owens Fellowship, and Milan Patel ’23 has been selected as an Amgen Scholar at Columbia University.  The Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women and other gender minorities who, like Dawn Brooke Owens (1980-2016), aspire to explore the sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow people here on planet Earth. The Amgen Scholars Program selects a group of motivated undergraduate students who will...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesko, an NJIT alumnus who earned a Ph.D. in mathematical sciences from the university, will seek to enhance NJIT’s educational programs and grow its research portfolio through federal, state and industry partnerships. More broadly, he’ll work closely with NJIT President Teik C. Lim and the Board of...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast to the annual NJIT ACM chapter's HackNJIT, which skews to the software side. Registration is here. Student organizers are from the electrical and computer engineering department, and specifically from the NJIT IEEE chapter. But it's open to all, as there are there are bountiful hardware angles...

U.S. News & World Report Ranks NJIT Online Programs, Two in the Top 50 Nationally

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Two of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s online graduate programs placed among the top 50 in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of American universities, with another breaking into the top 100. NJIT was ranked No. 29 for its information technology programs, a two place jump from last year; and No. 47 for engineering, a 16-place rise. In addition, NJIT’s online master’s business program was ranked No. 95, and the online MBA was No. 132. All ranked programs saw improved scores over last year, according to the publication. "NJIT’s online graduate programs consistently...

NJIT Receives $1.3M in Federal Funding for Engineering and Manufacturing Initiatives

Wednesday, January 18, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive more than $1 million for new initiatives that will bolster engineering education, as well as manufacturing and mechatronics apprenticeship training, under the federal spending bill signed by President Joe Biden. The $1.7 trillion spending package carves out $1.3 million for the two new NJIT initiatives. The community college pre-engineering network initiative will develop community college-serving programs to strengthen the pathway and readiness for traditionally underserved students to pursue a STEM degree. The advanced...

Two Members of the NJIT Community are Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Thursday, December 15, 2022
Tara Alvarez, a distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Alvarez was one of 169 inventors from 110 research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutions worldwide inducted into the Academy in 2022 in a class that includes members of the National Academy of Sciences and Nobel Laureates. Together, they hold more than 5,000 issued U.S. patents. With her election, there are now...

Kaily, Nyssa and Oluwanifemi: Meet the 2022 Mayor's Honors Scholars at NJIT

Thursday, September 1, 2022
Oluwanifemi Fuwa fabricated face masks to protect people from COVID-19. Kaily Peixoto volunteered at a senior center and handed out scarves to homeless individuals at Newark’s Penn Station.  Nyssa Nixon volunteered at Isaiah House shelter through Jack and Jill of America and tutored peers as a member of the National Honor Society.   They did it all as high school students in Newark, even while achieving exceptional marks in class. And now each is embarking on her first year at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Meet the 2022 Newark Mayor’s Honors Scholars. Now in its...

NJIT Alum, Prof, Entrepreneur Makes NJBIZ's List of Next Generation Leaders

Monday, August 1, 2022
The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision therapy company that launched in 2018. The company centers around a device known as VERVE (short for Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises) that holds promise as a biomarker for concussions. OMT arose out of a university lab and developed commercially with the support of VentureLink, a startup...

NJIT Students Find Summer Work at Merck, Meta, Apple, National Institutes of Health and More

Thursday, July 21, 2022
NJIT students have found excellent work in co-ops and internships this summer. It is a great way to gain real-world experience in their field of study, and to network with professionals in their chosen field. And, of course, the added benefit of earning money to help pay for tuition and other expenses. Hands-on, real-world experience allows students to apply what they have learned in the classroom, and bring back a more-focused approach to their studies. Additionally, such experience provides students with the opportunity to further develop important skills, such as problem-solving and...

NJIT Honors Scholar Pursues PhD in Bioengineering at UMD

Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Next up for NJIT biomedical engineering graduate Amal Shabazz: the Ph.D. program in bioengineering at the University of Maryland. But first, the Albert Dorman Honors Scholar has a 10-week summer internship at Pfizer in Andover, Mass. Her four years in University Heights were filled with helpful mentors, key internships and welcoming peer groups that collectively helped opened the door to graduate school. In an interview, she shares what she gained and where she hopes it leads. What first sparked your interest in biomedical engineering? I was always torn between studying medicine or...

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