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Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research Lives! Undergraduates Take on Neurotoxins, Cave Disasters and Other Challenges

Monday, August 13th, 2018
A robotic fleet built to penetrate dark and narrow cave passages, cellular studies into alcohol’s role in hastening neurodegeneration in people with HIV, plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air and new methods for eliminating noise from data searches are a few of the research projects ...

Next Wave of Solar Development Gets Strong Start at Brightfields 2018

Friday, August 10th, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) corporation, in conjunction with Brownfields Listings sponsored Brightfields 2018, a one day, national solar energy development event at the campus of NJIT in late June. Over 150 registered attendees and a r...

Balavignesh Thirumalainambi of NJII Named NJBIZ 2018 Forty Under 40 Winner

Thursday, August 9th, 2018
The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Corporation, announced today that Balavignesh (Bala) Thirumalainambi, government affairs and finance director, was named a NJBIZ 2018 Forty Under 40 Winner.  “I am honored and humbled to be recogn...

NJ Digital Education Soars Under Future Ready Schools - New Jersey Initiative

Thursday, August 9th, 2018
Future Ready Schools - New Jersey (FRS-NJ)—New Jersey’s leading initiative to promote digital learning throughout its elementary and secondary public schools — has recently announced that the number of schools participating in the program has tripled statewide in 2018. The new figures indicate that...

What a Day! A Senator, Mayor, Congressman and CEO Visit NJIT

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
NJIT welcomed several special guests to campus Aug. 7 for a showcase representing the culmination of the Ras Baraka Coding Institute (BCI) at NJIT, part of the Newark Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The program offers participants work experience with a summer income while teaching them valu...

NJIT Named One of The Princeton Review's Best 384 Colleges for 2019

Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
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 384 Colleges." NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region. “NJIT’s recognition by The Princeton Review as one of the...

Undergraduate Research Snapshot: Laura Gould Studies Urban Infrastructure and Sacred Spaces

Monday, August 6th, 2018
LAURA GOULD ’22 Major: Architecture    Hometown: Newark, N.J. “I'm working with Dr. Louis Hamilton on studying the correlation between architecture and the use and creation of sacred space in Italy. Almost all architects and even politicians like Winston Churchill agree that the wa...

The Time of His Life: Alumnus Jonathan Ferrer Designs Modern Luxury Watches

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018
Jonathan Ferrer sits in a cushy armchair inside the bustling coffee shop on the NJIT campus. The watch designer is in his element, casually scrolling through his phone while sipping a cup of joe amid the harmony of coffee beans grinding and milk gurgling. “I lived on campus when I was a student h...

NJIT and National Student Clearinghouse Collaborate To Help Students Earn Degrees

Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
NJIT Meets NJ Reverse Transfer Sept. 1 Deadline New Jersey community college students who transfer to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) before earning a degree or certificate will find it easier to receive a credential retroactively under a new alliance between NJIT and the National Stu...

Women's Volleyball Earns Fifth Straight AVCA Academic Award

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) recognized the NJIT women's volleyball team for the AVCA's annual team academic award covering the 2017-18 academic year, the AVCA announced. The Highlanders earned their fifth straight team academic award, maintaining a minimum grade point average...