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NJIT's Chrystoff Camacho Wins an Edison Patent Award for an Aerial Reforestation Device

Friday, November 15, 2019
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at NJIT, received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council of...

NJIT Biomedical Engineer Tara Alvarez Is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry

Monday, November 11, 2019
Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO).
Kamela Chandrika, first-gen college student at NJIT

This First-Gen College Student Is Becoming a Leader and Making an Impact

Thursday, November 7, 2019
Kamela Chandrika, a soft-spoken third-year biomedical engineering major, remembers some of the challenges she faced during her first days at NJIT — like going to the Bursar’s...
A doctor's stethoscope

Tech Treatment: NJIT Re-engineering Team Helps Local Emergency Department

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in Livingston, N.J., is no stranger to accolades.

An NJIT Engineer Proposes a New Model for the Way Humans Localize Sounds

Tuesday, October 29, 2019
One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals – from lizards to humans – to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and group...

NJIT Technology and Society Forum Presents: Environmental Health and Hurricane Impacts

Monday, October 28, 2019
There are over 200 hazardous waste sites in Puerto Rico, including 24 Superfund sites, causing significant contamination of water resources. Air pollution from refineries, power plants, motor vehicles, and large ships at ports is also very high...

NJIT VentureLink Inventors Fortify Weak Links in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Friday, October 18, 2019
The surge in mail-order drug deliveries, amid rising temperatures and climate volatility, presents a growing challenge to the security of the pharmaceutical supply chain.
The NJIT group at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

Entrepreneur Society Visits 10 Burgeoning Businesses in a Single Day

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
They headed out at 8 a.m. on a Friday in September for a whirlwind excursion of Manhattan-based startups, accelerators, incubators and venture capital firms.

A Pioneer in Automation Receives NJIT's 2019 Excellence in Research Award

Friday, October 4, 2019
MengChu Zhou, a pioneer in automation science and engineering who optimizes systems, from manufacturing, to data centers, to transportation, to glean efficiencies and improve outcomes, is this year’s winner of NJIT’s Excellence in Research award...

NJIT Planned Its First Computer Lab 65 Years Ago, Used for Dissertations

Monday, September 30, 2019
There were no digital computers at NJIT, known as Newark College of Engineering, in 1960.