Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-43

2022 NJIT Faculty Research Showcase

Featuring New Faculty and Faculty Seed Grants

November 14, 2022; Ballroom A and B, Student Campus Center

We are pleased to introduce new faculty members and recipients of 2022 Faculty Seed Grants at the 2022 NJIT Faculty Research Showcase to be held on November 14, 2022. The showcase will start with the Distinguished Keynote talk on research, innovation and entrepreneurship. The Keynote Speaker is Judith Sheft, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology. After the individual podium presentations by new faculty, the showcase will feature e-poster session with ppt presentations by FY23 Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) recipients. The showcase will be held in-person at the campus.

All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend to learn about research expertise of our new faculty and ongoing emerging research projects at NJIT for exploring future collaborations.

Agenda

9.00 AM - 9.10 AM:  Welcome Remarks

                                    Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President

                                    Teik Lim, President

9.10 AM - 9.50 AM:  Distinguished Keynote Lecture

                                  Judith Sheft, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology

9.50 AM - 10.50 AM:   New Faculty Presentations: Session-1 (NCE, CSLA)

10.50 AM - 11.00 AM:   Break

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM: New Faculty Presentations: Session-2 (YWCC, MTSM and CoAD)

12.30 PM – 1.00 PM:    Lunch and Networking

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM:       Poster Presentations and Networking Session:  New Faculty and Faculty Seed Grants

Biographical Sketch: Judith Sheft is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission of Science, Innovation and Technology. The Commission's mission is to accelerate economic development in New Jersey through science, innovation and technology including stimulating academic-industrial collaboration and encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs and inventors. Previously she was involved with regional economic and entrepreneurial cluster development program, the NJIT I-Corps Site and the Procurement Technical Assistance Center. She has been engaged with technology /IP innovation and commercialization efforts working with faculty and students to create startup companies and establishing licensing relationships with corporate partners. She advised external startups at NJIT’s high technology / life sciences business accelerator/incubator.  Judith served as the co-chair of Governor Murphy’s transition advisory committee for Technology Government and Innovation (2017). She is on the Board of Advisors to the NJIT Murray Women’s Center and serves as a mentor and coach to students and faculty. She is a member of the NJ – Israel Commission and serves on the Board of Greater Newark Enterprise Corporation, StartUp Newark, Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation, Einstein’s Alley, SheTek and NJEDA Technology Advisory Board, working to assist early-stage tech and life sciences entrepreneurs foster regional economic growth.

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Breakfast with Interim Provost Atam Dhawan

https://www.njit.edu/provost/breakfast-interim-provost

Informal breakfast sessions with small groups from the NJIT community is hosted by the Interim Provost each Tuesday from 8.30 AM to 10.00 AM at the University Club, Eberhardt Building. These breakfast meetings provide NJIT faculty, staff and students the opportunity to ask questions, give feedback, and engage with the Interim Provost on their experiences, concerns, expectations and needs. While it is open to all members of the community, seats are limited each week. If you are interested in participating in this informal discussion, please submit this form. The Office of the Provost will follow up with you to confirm the date of your breakfast session.

NSF: Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Computation Opportunities for CMM; Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR); Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Field Support; Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT); Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships (ExpandAI); NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI)

NIH: NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03); BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Information Innovation Office (I2O) Office-wide; Science of Artificial Intelligence – Basic and Applied Research for the Naval Domain; NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research

EPA: Developing And Demonstrating Nanosensor Technology To Detect, Monitor, and Degrade Pollutants

Department of Energy: Atmospheric System Research (ASR); FY 2023 Research Opportunities in High Energy Physics

NASA: ROSES 2022: Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools

National Endowment of Humanities: Climate Smart Humanities Organizations; Cultural and Community Resilience; Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities; Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Private Foundations: Global Partnerships and Grand Challenges

Department of Energy Awards $39 Million for Tech to Boost Clean Energy Transition: The Energy Department on Friday announced $39 million in funding for projects that expect to develop market-ready technologies to increase domestic supplies of critical elements necessary for the nation’s future transition to clean energy. The funding—given to 16 projects across 12 states—will fund projects determined by the department to show promise in developing commercial, scalable technologies that will increase domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt and other rare earth elements. Selected projects will be funded and managed through the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPE-E. A full list of funded projects is available here.

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Emissions From E-Waste Spiked 53% in 6 Years: Greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere from electronic devices and their associated electronic waste increased by 53% between 2014 and 2020, a new study shows. That includes 580 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2020 alone, say the researchers.  They estimate that without regulation or a legal framework to extend the useful life of information and communication technology (ICT) devices, about 852 million metric tons of CO2 compounds will be emitted annually from e-waste sources by 2030. For the study, the researchers set out to quantify the carbon footprint of e-waste and to add to the body of research showing how much e-waste adds to the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the environment. “Reversing the trend of harmful greenhouse gas emissions created because of e-waste into the environment will require strategies for source reduction, including extending the useful lifetime of the electronic products, which will directly address the quantity issue,” says Oladele Ogunseitan, professor of population health and disease prevention in the University of California, Irvine’s Program in Public Health. “In addition to mitigating climate change, a reduction in e-waste would discourage child labor in mining operations and reduce toxic impacts on the health of workers engaged in waste management.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Emerging Tech Training Gets a $30M Boost from NSF: The National Science Foundation launched a new workforce development program called Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies, or ExLENT, aimed at expanding practical opportunities for individuals to learn about and gain experience in emerging technology, thereby bolstering competitiveness in the emerging technology workforce. The $30 million program—under the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships—will have opportunities in advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics. ExLENT will provide awards of up to $1 million over three years to partner organizations in the emerging technology field and those with workforce development expertise.  The ExLENT program is designed to offer experiential learning opportunities—or “learning by doing” experience—to individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds to increase access and interest in emerging technology careers. Part of NSF’s mission is to support emerging technologies and help address workforce shortages, particularly in emerging fields like semiconductors. The program will help address challenges to gaining hands-on learning opportunities, particularly for those not currently enrolled in higher education. More information about the solicitation is posted on the website

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