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NJIT Opens State-of-the-Art Nanoelectronics Fabrication Facility

Thursday, December 5, 2019
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...

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...

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...

Dealing a Therapeutic Counterblow to Traumatic Brain Injury

Thursday, September 26, 2019
A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person’s skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there.
Samara (left) and Samantha Augustin are Honors College freshmen and Mayor's Honors Scholars.

Already Distinguished, Twin Sisters Are Ready for Further Success at NJIT

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
One is studying computer science at NJIT, the other biomedical engineering, but they both join the...

The Hearst Foundations Promote Diversity in NJIT's Undergraduate Research Community

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
A five-woman team of undergraduate engineering students is tackling a problem experienced by a diverse and growing population: balance instability.
Pre-college alumna Stephanie iring

Pre-College 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Stephanie Iring Is Pursuing Biomedical Research

Monday, August 12, 2019
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.
OculoMotor Technologies VERVE device for vision therapy

Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: NJIT Invests in Faculty and Student Startups

Thursday, August 1, 2019
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.

An NJIT-based Vision Therapy Startup Secures Major Backing from NJ Health Foundation's Venture Arm

Monday, July 29, 2019
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...