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A contingent from NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), which included new dean Oya Tukel, crossed the country in June to attend the Avanade FUEL Innovation, Leadership, and Technology Conference in Pomona, Calif. Among those invited to the prestigious event were 30 Avanade Scholars from three North American universities.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 385 Colleges," a designation only 13% of America’s four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region and a Best Value college.

Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and stop signs with roundabouts, they wanted to be prepared for the questions that would come.

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.

“The Largest Voice Tech Event of the Year.” That was the official event billing that stirred a groundswell of attention from technology leaders and innovators, global brands and thousands more at the 2019 VOICE Summit held July 22-25 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

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).

It’s a Thursday morning and Naomi Adjei is a bit tired, having recently finished another 13-hour shift as an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It’s hard!” she said with a laugh. “The hours are hard. … [But] I’m learning clinical skills. I’m learning surgical skills. … You’re learning content, but also how to be a professional.”

The underground culture of hardcore drug abuse is dynamic and evolves rapidly. Street names for drugs, hot spots where users go for their fix, and new, dangerous strains laced with different substances change frequently and regularly. For nonprofits aiming to help users overcome their addiction, getting real-time, actionable information on this fast-changing landscape can be difficult.

Four years ago, David Isbitski ’98 was the first person hired by Amazon for its newly created Alexa skills kit group. Today – tens of thousands of skills later – he is the voice-activated technology’s chief evangelist, and one of the keynote speakers at the VOICE 2019 Conference. Held on NJIT’s campus for the second year in a row, the conference is the world’s largest annual gathering of voice technologists, developers and executives.

This year marks four decades of NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) providing STEM education and college preparedness to rising fourth- through 11th-grade students in New Jersey. With NJIT Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus Howard Kimmel as a lead figure in its development, CPCP was founded with the aim to “increase access to scientific and technological fields among traditionally underrepresented populations and to improve the teaching of science and mathematics in secondary and elementary schools.”