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Akhyurna Swain - ECE PhD Student of the Month - August 2022

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Akhyurna Swain is a Ph.D. student in the Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Currently, she works in the Sensor Research laboratory under the advisory of Dr. Philip Pong. Her research area focuses on the development and ...

Computing Student Makes Fake Tweets Detector, Satire Checker is Next

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
We've all wished that some people on social media would use a fake news detector before sharing, and now an NJIT computer science student has built one that works pretty well. Natalia Smith, a junior from Newark, said her fake news detector application has performed with up to 90 percent accuracy i...

As CEO of Construction Management Firm, NJIT Alum Finds Strength in Diversity

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
When it comes to diversity, Ken Colao leads by example. More than a third of the 90 staffers ­— 38% — at his construction management company, CNY Group, is Black, Indigenous or other people of color (BIPOC). Also, in an industry not known for gender balance, women comprise nearly a third of th...

Women's Basketball Gives Back to the Community

Monday, August 8th, 2022
The NJIT women's basketball team took time from its summer workout schedule to give back to the community teaming up with the Community FoodBank of New Jersey (CFBNJ) in Hillside, NJ. Members of the women's basketball team and coaching staff offered their assistance inside the CFBNJ warehouse prepa...

NJIT Police Lead 4th Annual Navy Seal Hudson River Swim

Saturday, August 6th, 2022
A cadre of NJIT police officers led hundreds of Navy SEALs, fellow veterans and military supporters in the pre-swim run from Liberty State Park Sept. 11 Monument to the Hudson. The attendees then swam across the Hudson and ran to their final stop at the Sept. 11 memorial in lower Manhattan as part o...

NJIT Police Department Pledges to Advance Women in Policing

Friday, August 5th, 2022
On August 3, 2022, the NJIT Police Department signed on to the 30x30 Pledge – a series of low- and no-cost actions policing agencies can take to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement. The activities help policing agencies assess the current state of a department with...

Smart Microrobots Learn How to Swim and Navigate with Artificial Intelligence

Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Researchers from Santa Clara University, New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Hong Kong have been able to successfully teach microrobots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of microswimming capability. There has been tremend...

From Disease Detection to Criminal Forensics, Student Inventions Energize NJIT's Summer Campus

Monday, August 1st, 2022
A rapid point-of-care device with a unique electrode structure designed to identify toxin molecules in human fluids was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium. Designer Aditi Sathe, a sophomore at Lehigh...

NJIT Alum, Prof, Entrepreneur Makes NJBIZ's List of Next Generation Leaders

Monday, August 1st, 2022
The CEO of an NJIT-born startup made NJBIZ’s list of the Next Generation of Leaders. John Vito d’Antonio-Bertagnolli, who holds both a bachelor’s and master’s in biomedical engineering from NJIT, where he was an Albert Dorman Honors College Scholar, leads OculoMotor Technologies (OMT), a vision the...

Men's Basketball Offers Helping Hands to Local Newark Community

Thursday, July 28th, 2022
The NJIT men's basketball team took off from its summer workout schedule and made a short trek within the Brick City to help two different entities provide service to those in need. On July 27, seventh-year Head Coach Brian Kennedy took his whole staff and team down to the corner of Broad...