Prior to taking the game modification development course taught by University Lecturer D.J. Kehoe last spring, computer science major Angela Vitaletti ’18 had never developed or programmed a videogame before. “I would always bite off more than I could chew, and never finish,” said Vitaletti, who is from Middlesex and transferred to NJIT from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania. “I took game mod as a way to motivate myself because it has real deadlines and projects that D.J. helps make achievable.”

The Murray Center for Women in Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will hold a one-day Women Designing the Future conference—“The Environment: Doing More with Less”—on Friday, March 23. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. in the university’s Campus Center Ballrooms A and B.

Peter Ma is co-founder of Doctor Hazel, an AI that detects skin cancer in real time. He’s part of the Intel Software Innovator program, which supports innovative, independent developers who display an ability to create and demonstrate forward-looking projects. A software developer for more than 12 years, Ma has previously been involved in five different startups and won more than 100 hackathons in the past. He received a B.S in computer engineering in 2007.

The New Jersey Innovation Institute, (NJII) an NJIT Corporation, has announced that its Cell and Gene Therapy Development Center has launched a training program to upgrade the knowledge and skills of biopharmaceutical professionals in the processing of new, breakthrough classes of biologic therapies.

For more than 40 years, in a career that has included awards and special recognition for innovative design and successful delivery of major infrastructure projects, Alvaro J. Piedrahita, P.E. has successfully led technical design professionals on multi-million dollar transportation infrastructure projects for major airports, highways, bridges, transit and rail, and support facilities worldwide.

The NJIT women's tennis team swept visiting Hofstra, 7-0, Saturday afternoon in The Naimoli Family Athletic and Recreational Facility. NJIT, which picks up its second straight win, improves to 6-5 on the season, earning the doubles point with wins at second and third doubles and sweeping the six singles contests. "Strong win today against a solid team," head coach Zaki Abdelrahman added after his teams win. "The team has developed a lot physically and mentally which gave them the edge to win the critical moments today and even against NYIT Friday night."

As the Chief Information Officer at CDPHP, Neil Brandmaier is integrating IT with the business and developing scale, agility and new capabilities leveraging cloud computing. He is re-architecting CDPHP’s systems by shifting from B2B to B2C with micro-segmentation, enabling new risk sharing pricing models, supporting new healthcare delivery capabilities and improving the company's ability to manage medical expenses and population health.

Robert Cohen ’83, ’84, ’87, a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur who specializes in orthopedic joint replacement implants, years ago envisioned the convergence of advanced materials, new fabrication methods and robotic-assisted surgery to maximize motion restoration. In 2010, his New Jersey company, Pipeline Orthopedics, the developer of implants with porous metals designed to improve the fixation of device and bone, entered a strategic alliance with Mako Surgical Corp. in order to use Mako’s robotic systems in the operating room to help place its implants more precisely.

Hundreds of high school students from Newark and around the state will visit New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) March 24 for NJIT Splash, a one-day enrichment program taught by NJIT students. The program, which debuted at NJIT last year and continues as an annual event, will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is open to students in grades nine through 12.

NJIT has earned a No. 33 ranking on The Princeton Review's just-released list saluting the top 50 undergraduate schools for game design for 2018.