Sagnik Basuray is developing a device the size of a dollar coin that will detect cancer biomarkers in patients in remission by sampling a tiny drop of blood with a dip stick. His sensor is groundbreaking not only in its simplicity, but also in its portability. It’s meant to be used at home.

NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs will hold another STEM Family Workshop Series this February. The “hands-on, minds-on” classes are designed for 8- to 13-year-olds and their families, and will be led by university professors, students and staff on three consecutive Saturday mornings from 8:30 a.m. to noon on the NJIT campus. The series will feature: - “Code Saves the World,” Feb. 1, Location: Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, Room 2302

Expect to see a mobile ordering application for Village Market, the convenience store and sandwich shop located on the ground floor of Albert Dorman Honors College, in time for the spring 2020 semester.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Ribbon-Cutting Event at NJIT@JerseyCity WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) will host a ribbon-cutting event to mark the opening of its new location just steps from the Exchange Place PATH station in the Waterfront district of Jersey City.

David Bader, distinguished professor of computer science, is the director of NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and high-performance computing, with applications in cybersecurity, massive-scale analytics and computational genomics. Dr. Bader works closely with researchers in academia, industry and government to develop the next generation of computing capabilities and has advised the White House on the National Strategic Computing Initiative. What is NJIT’s new Institute for Data Science?

NJIT Unveils State-of-the-Art Facility to Fabricate Nanoelectronic Devices and Sensors What: Ribbon-Cutting for NJIT’s Microfabrication Innovation Center, followed by a tour of the facility When: 11 a.m., December 5, 2019

Five players scored in double-figures as the NJIT women's basketball team rolled to its first win of the 2019 season, 88-69, against St. Francis Brooklyn Tuesday evening in women's basketball non-conference action at NJIT's Wellness and Events Center. NJIT (1-6) shot a season-best 59.3 percent from the field (35-for-59), 54.5 percent from three-point range (12-for-22) and 66.7 percent from the free throw line (6-for-9).

Freshman Dominika Pawlowska earned a 12th place finish at the 2019 Junior World Cup in Laupheim, Germany this past weekend. Pawlowska, from Zielona Góra, Poland, placed 12th out of 217 competitors. Pawlowska went 5-1 in pools W4-1 vs Alecia Torrego of ESP W5-2 vs Silvena Hristova of BUL W5-4 vs Lisa-Marie Loehr of GER D3-5 vs Sarah Spice of NZL W5-0 vs Eleanor Taylor of GBR

Initiating, supporting and maintaining a high number of startup ventures remains the chief objective of innovation-ecosystem stakeholders: government policymakers, administrators of technology parks and small business incubators, and the entrepreneurs operating in such venues. The social capital (or interconnecting relationships with universities, industry and government organizations) provided by this world, along with strategies that help to remove barriers, promote networking and encourage relevant learning, would seem to be valuable contributors to startup growth and survival.

When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal — being able to pick up and leave to occupy new lands, find fresh resources and mates, and avoid intraspecies competition in times of overpopulation. For birds, butterflies and other winged creatures, covering long distances may be as easy as the breeze they travel on. But for soil-dwellers of the crawling variety, the hurdle remains: How do they reach new, far-off habitats?