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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 Research on Nanoporous Materials Would Make Electronics Stronger, Safer

Thursday, September 1, 2022
Scientists at NJIT and in Germany are working to understand how ions congregate around nanoporous materials, which could lead to safety and reliability improvements for electronic components such as supercapacitors and microscopically tiny actuators. Nanoscale porous materials are used in everyday objects such as household water filters and gas masks, but there is little research into how such surfaces behave when interacting with electrolytes, which can create internal stress that changes the material's physical properties. The electrolytes form when materials are exposed to water,...

NJIT Rises to No. 75 on Forbes' 2022 List of America's Top Colleges

Wednesday, August 31, 2022
New Jersey Institute of Technology jumped 114 places to No. 75 on Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Top Colleges.  The national ranking is based primarily on return on investment and outcomes for students. “Schools placed well if their students graduated on time, secured high salaries and low debt and went on to have successful careers,” Forbes explained.  NJIT is the No. 1 public university in New Jersey, No. 28 nationally Among public universities, NJIT ranked No. 28 nationally — up from No. 89 last year — making it the highest ranked public institution in New Jersey and...

Goldwater Scholar Creates Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring System to Implement in Newark

Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Vishva Rana ‘23, a Goldwater Scholar, has always been interested in addressing sustainable issues. The mechanical engineering major, minoring in innovation and entrepreneurship, has been working on a real-time air quality monitoring system and hopes to see it implemented in Newark’s Ironbound. Last year she received the Albert Dorman Honors College's Moonshot Prize for her work to examine air pollution in Newark and to create access to data for its residents. This year, she worked on a prototype that she presented in the Summer Research & Innovation Symposium hosted by NJIT’s...

Ph.D. Student's Research Can Reduce Wind Turbine Costs by $15M Annually

Thursday, August 18, 2022
NJIT student Akhyurna Swain has a plan to save $15 million per year in the maintenance and operational costs of New Jersey's offshore wind turbines. Swain, studying for her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, determined that non-intrusive monitoring technology controlled by magnets can be paired with machine learning software to realize the impressive cost savings for an 1,100-megawatt project which will begin construction in 2024. Windmill technology began in the first millennium of the common era, but modern high-tech turbines reach a new plane of productivity. They'll be located 15...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 388 Colleges' Guide for 2023

Wednesday, August 17, 2022
At NJIT, students  are  “learning  on  an  Ivy  League  level,”  getting  “practical  career-focused  education”  at  “a  fairly  affordable  price.” - The Princeton Review New Jersey Institute of Technology has again been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in its 31st edition of its college guide, "The Best 388 Colleges," a designation earned by only about 14% of America’s four-year colleges.  In addition to the “Best 388,” NJIT has received honors as a top college in the Northeast...

Highlander Foundry Showcase Gives Students Opportunity to Present their Startups

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
After concluding their eight-week summer program, NJIT students presented their startups, giving them an opportunity to experience entrepreneurship and business creation. The Highlander Foundry program is a summer startup incubator that helps NJIT students and alumni grow with the same techniques and strategies that launched many of the top startups today.  “We’re really excited about this because this event is sort of a celebration, a culmination of their experience here in the incubator and the program,” said Will Lutz, director of commercialization and co-director of VentureLink...

As CEO of Construction Management Firm, NJIT Alum Finds Strength in Diversity

Tuesday, August 9, 2022
When it comes to diversity, Ken Colao leads by example. More than a third of the 90 staffers ­— 38% — at his construction management company, CNY Group, is Black, Indigenous or other people of color (BIPOC). Also, in an industry not known for gender balance, women comprise nearly a third of the staff and have earned 62% of the promotions in the past three years.  Diversity is not limited to the rank and file, either, as women and BIPOC are well-represented in CNY's executive strategic ranks, according to Colao, president, CEO and co-founding principal of...

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...

Mobile Mapping Surveyor Brings Advanced Technologies to the Classroom

Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Associate professor at NJIT’s School of Applied Engineering and Technology, Laramie Potts, works to ensure his students in the Surveying Engineering Technology program have the opportunity to experience the technological instruments the career has to offer. With the creation of a home-brew mobile autonomous surveyor vehicle, Potts wants to make the students’ experience more complete.  Placed over a chassis that formerly belonged to a remote-controlled car are three tiers of plywood, each carrying important components that collect data. At the bottom there’s a depth camera and power...

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