Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-29

2022 NJIT Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) Summer Program 

2022 URI Summer Research Symposium and Innovation Day

July 27-28, 2022, Ballroom A and B, Campus Center

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Undergraduate Research and Innovation (URI) program provides students a unique opportunity to learn necessary and important skills to research and innovate towards taking a leadership role in the society. As a student-centered research institution, NJIT is committed to providing opportunities for research participation beginning at the undergraduate level. 

Please join us to encourage and recognize our undergraduate students on the celebration of their completion of summer research projects. Students with best innovation projects will be recognized with Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Awards. Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Awards include First Prize: $1,000, Second Prize: $750, Third Prize: $500 and 5 Honorable Mentions: $100 each.

UG Research and Innovation Programs Included in the Symposium:

URI Provost Summer Research Fellowships

McNair Scholar Program

Honors Summer Research Institute (HSRI)

NSF REU Programs

NSF iCorps NJIT Site Program 

Other Grant Funded Projects 

Other UG Student Summer Researchers 

Agenda:

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Ballroom A & B Student Campus Center

9:00 AM  - 9:05 AM:               Welcome Remarks

                                                Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost, NJIT

                                                Teik Lim, President, NJIT                       

9.05 AM – 9.25 AM:                Distinguished Keynote Talk

                                                Ideation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

                                                Pallavi Madakasira, Vice President, Phase Change Solutions

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM:              Student Presentations

                                              Session 1: Bioscience and Bioengineering

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM:             Break

11:15 AM - 12:45 PM:             Student Presentations

                                               Session 2: Bioscience and Bioengineering:

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM:               Lunch and Networking

1:30 PM  - 3:00 PM:                Student Presentations

                                                Session 3: Environment and Sustainability

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM:                 Break

3:30 PM  - 5:00 PM:                Student Presentations

                                                Session 4: Remote Students ( All Research Areas)

Thursday, July 28, 2022 Ballroom A & B Student Campus Center

9:00 AM  - 10:30 AM:             Student Presentations           

                                                Session 5: Material Science and Engineering

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM:             Break

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM:             Student Presentations

                                                Session 6:Data Science and Management and              

                                                            Robotics and Machine Intelligence

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM:               Lunch and Networking

1:00 PM -  2:30 PM:                URI Summer Research Awards Ceremony

                                                Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Awards

Distinguished Keynote Speaker:

Pallavi Madakasira is Vice President at the Phase Change Solution, a smart and sustainable materials company with a mission to reduce carbon footprint. Before joining Phase Change Solution, Pallavi served as the Director, Clean Energy at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA). In her role she helps shape and lead the EDA’s efforts to ensure the State’s long-term competitiveness in the Clean Energy sector. Her key responsibilities include the roll out of grant programs, develop initiatives to create green jobs and serve as EDA’s relationship manager for key industry stakeholders. Most recently Pallavi was the Head of Strategic Marketing at Solvay where she led the creation of new products and business models centered around sustainability.  Prior to Solvay, Pallavi worked with Lux Research advising Fortune 500 companies to help define their strategies in the field of clean energy technologies including solar, wind, and EV transportation. She has also worked with institutional investors in her role as an equity research analyst at Piper Jaffray. Pallavi received her Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas.

URI External Advisor Board Members and Judges:

Brian Kiernan, Angel Investor, Executive VP and Chief Scientist (ret), InterDigital Communications Corp. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-kiernan-a5636b11/)

Govi Rao, Co-Founder, Carbon Group Global (https://carbongroup.global/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/govirao/)

Manish Patel, CEO, TrickyWater LLC (www.trickywater.com) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manish-patel-innovate/)

Liz Miller, President, Summit Place Financial Advisors, LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-miller-cfa-cfp-5100096/)

Shashi Patel, Manager – Engineering, PSEG (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashikant-patel-1073161b/)

Alfredo Matos, President and CEO, A Z Matos, LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredo-al-matos-bs-msee-mba-47abb627/)

NSF: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF); Ideas Lab: Engineering Technologies to Advance Underwater Sciences (ETAUS); Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP); Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP); Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS); Mathematical Biology Program; Paleo Perspectives on Present and Projected Climate (P4CLIMATE); Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT)

NIH: The Early Detection Research Network: Biomarker Characterization Centers (U2C); BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (R61/R33); Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network: Technology Research and Development Centers (TRDC) (U54); Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) (K12); BRAIN Initiative: Transformative Brain Non-invasive Imaging Technology Development (UG3/UH3); Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations (R24)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: DoD Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health, Investigator Initiated Research Award; Minerva Research Initiative’s (Minerva) Defense Education and Civilian University Research (DECUR) Partnership; Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide BAA; FY22 DEFENSE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (DEPSCoR) – RESEARCH COLLABORATION (RC)

Department of Transportation: UTC Program Competition 2022-2026 Grants

Department of Agriculture: Conservation Reserve Program Decision Support Tools

Department of Labor: Targeted Topic Training

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity; FY2021 to FY2023 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

EPA: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM

Department of Energy: RFI Challenges and Opportunities for Vehicle Photovoltaics; FY 2022 Vehicle Technologies Office Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement; Stewardship Science Academic Alliances Program Centers of Excellence; Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Industrial Decarbonization through Electrification of Process Heating; Basic Energy Sciences - Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (BES-RENEW)

NASA: Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics; University Leadership Initiative (ULI); ROSES 2022: Living with a Star Science

National Endowment of Humanities: Humanities Connections; Summer Stipends

Private Foundations: Sony Research Award Programs; Global Partnerships and Grand Challenges

Department of Energy Announces $4.7 Million for Research and Development Partnership Pilots: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.7 million in funding for 35 new grants to colleges and universities that are under-represented in DOE’s foundational climate, Earth, and environmental science research investments. These grants will help provide technical assistance to build capacity and achieve the goal of broadening institutional participation in DOE’s science investments. Selected projects will develop partnerships that focus on a wide range of climate and environmental science topics, from the role that atmospheric aerosols play in climate change to efforts to assure that America’s most vulnerable communities will become more resilient to the pressures imposed by a warming world. Partnerships will involve collaborations with DOE-supported projects at national laboratories, universities, and/or DOE user facilities, to enhance institutional capacity with a goal to strengthen and diversify American science. Projects were chosen by competitive merit review under the DOE Funding Opportunity Announcement, “Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP),” sponsored by the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program within the Department’s Office of Science. Funding totals $4.7 million in fiscal year 2022 dollars for projects lasting 18 to 22 months. A list of projects can be found at the BER website under “What's New.”

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White House Advocates Cloud Investment as a Path to Artificial Intelligence: Federal agencies that want to successfully scale and implement cloud computing systems into existing infrastructure can do so through several key practices, including designating expert teams, two-factor authentication, and enhanced education opportunities among users.  Outlined in a White House report published earlier this month, officials documented how cloud computing systems can support further federal research and development in artificial intelligence, a goal within the broader Biden administration.  

Authored by the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee within the National Science and Technology Council, the report notes that leveraging cloud computing technology can enable better on-demand resources for researchers working with AI technologies. It went on to highlight opportunities for public agencies looking to bolster AI research efforts with advanced computing systems. “Agencies that have undertaken early efforts to leverage commercial cloud computing resources to advance AI R&D have commonly experienced benefits to their investments in terms of providing internal and external researchers persistent, on-demand access to cutting-edge capabilities, accelerating experimentation and the use of AI in new domains, and enabling reproducibility and scalability of the research activities and results,” the report explains. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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NIST Revises Cybersecurity Guidelines Specifically for HIPAA: The National Institute of Standards and Technology updated its guidance on how healthcare organizations and companies can protect their patients’ data security through new cybersecurity recommendations.  Published on Thursday, the new cybersecurity draft resource guide specifically works to help agencies comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule that stipulates the need to protect sensitive health data. Patient data confidentiality, availability and integrity are emphasized in the recommended implementation guidance. “The revision is more actionable so that healthcare organizations can improve their cybersecurity posture and comply with the security rule,” Jeff Marron, a NIST cybersecurity specialist said. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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DC-QNet Research Will Work to Develop Quantum Network Infrastructure: Following the announcement of the formation of the Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium by federal agencies in June, experts working on the initiative said that fortifying U.S. communication networks ahead of the advent of quantum computing is top priority.  Speaking with Nextgov, Gerald Borsuk, the DC-QNet executive director, said that a vast variety of fields could be impacted by the consortium's research, but the telecommunications sector stands to be the first industry to be safeguarded against post-quantum technologies.  “DC-QNet has the potential to affect a range of industries and fields over time,” Borsuk told Nextgov. “However, it is fair to say that telecommunications will likely be impacted as quantum networks are deployed alongside classical networks for secure communications and precision time distribution.” The research intends to develop quantum networks which will be initially deployed at the consortium’s laboratories. Borsuk explained that fully functional quantum networks are in the early stages of scientific discovery and estimated a five to 10 year timeframe of development.

 More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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