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. “Fortunately, my grammar school teacher recommended me to the Center for Pre-College Programs [CPCP] [at NJIT] in the sixth grade,” said Iring, whose mother enrolled her with tuition assistance from the Union City Board of Education. “It was in Pre-College that I first learned of biomedical engineering as a field that combines engineering with medicine and biology, which was life-changing for me.” Iring…

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. Despite the international accolade, getting VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises) out of the lab and into the health care marketplace was proving to be a mighty challenge for the team behind its development: Tara Alvarez, NJIT professor of biomedical engineering and founder/director of the university’s Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory, and NJIT alumni John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli ’16 M.S.’17 (…

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). OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), which at an earlier stage in its development received two $50,000 innovation grants from NJHF to advance the device, is the first NJIT-originated…

In a 600-ft.-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Led by Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT’s Center for Natural Resources (CNR), the initial phase of the experiment involved releasing several thousand gallons of oil from a one-inch pipe dragged along the bottom of the tank in order to reproduce ocean current conditions. “The…

Jakob Guido’s engineering talent manifested at quite a young age. In kindergarten, he was photographed playing with blocks behind a sign that read: “Future Engineer.” Months later, his first-grade science teacher observed his advanced organizational abilities and pronounced: “You’re going to be an engineer.” Fast forward 15 years, and Guido, a rising senior majoring in civil engineering, has pursued his seeming destiny with boundless energy, formidable skills and enviable success, punctuating those early predictions with an exclamation point. As president of NJIT’s chapter of the…

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. Boren Scholarship, which seeks to build a workforce of national security professionals with critical language skills, and two NJIT students were awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, for undergraduate research, in the same year. “…

Meet the 2019 gonfalon carriers! The six seniors chosen to represent their schools at NJIT's Commencement reminisce about life on campus, while they begin to envisage what lies beyond.   Newark College of Engineering Olivia Hadlaw Major: Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics Hometown: South Amboy, N.J. Next up: Design and analysis engineer in the Boeing Company’s Space and Security unit in St. Louis “I’m interested in sensors. For my senior project, I worked with two friends to design a device called the…

When NJIT holds its 103rd Commencement May 21, more than 100 Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) seniors will officially move on from their undergraduate study to begin the next chapter in their lives. While their plans after EOP may differ, the four years they’ve shared in the program provided them all with a uniquely supportive and familial environment. Here, we take a look at where just a few are going. Gloria Brewster Although Gloria Brewster is saying goodbye to EOP at NJIT, she’s not bidding adieu to the university. This fall, the computer engineering technology/medical…

Thousands of NJIT graduates are moving onto bigger and better things. Off to Fortune 500 companies, global engineering firms and premiere law schools, take a look at just a few of our students who are moving on as proud Highlanders.  

On his first day of college, Stephen DePalma ’72 and his classmates received blunt words about their daunting engineering curriculum from then-President Robert Van Houten, clearly intended as a form of “no nonsense” motivation: “Look to your left and look to your right – one of those people will not be there at graduation.” “Sink or swim – that was the standard then,” recounts De Palma. He decidedly swam, going on after graduation to help build Schoor DePalma Inc., an engineering firm that reshaped – yes, literally – the New Jersey landscape. He attributes his success in navigating those…