Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-28

2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

July 26-27, 2023; Ballroom A&B, Campus Center, NJIT

The 2023 NJIT Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium integrated with the Innovation Day will be held on July 26-27, 2023, featuring a distinguished keynote talks from Robert Cohen, Chair, NJIT Board of Trustees and President, Stryker Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology; Dereje Agonafer, Presidential Distinguished Professor at UTA and Member, National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, and Fellow of the national Academy of Inventors; and Jamie Renee, Executive Director, National Academy of Inventors. President Teik Lim will open the symposium with welcome remarks. More than 150 undergraduate students will be presenting their summer research and innovation projects at  the 2023 Summer Research Symposium. These students are from NJIT through NJIT URI programs and other top national universities through NSF REU sites grants, and the Heritage Institute of Technology, India.  Best innovation projects will be awarded Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Award: first, second and third prizes of $1,000, $750 and $500, respectively, along with 5 honorable mentions of $100 each.

All faculty, chairs, deans and administrators are invited to encourage and support undergraduate students for their tremendous work on research and innovation projects of high societal and technology impact.

Programs included:

URI Provost Summer Research Fellowships

McNair Achievement Program

Honors College Summer Scholar Program

NSF REU and iCorps NJIT Site Programs

Other Grant Funded Projects

Other UG Student Summer Researchers

Student Summer Research Program with Heritage Institute of Technology, India

Agenda

July 26, 2023: Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:              Registration and Breakfast

9.00 AM – 9.30 AM:              Welcome Remarks

                                                Teik Lim, President

                                                Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President

9.30 AM – 9.45 AM:              Introductions of URI External Advisory Board Members

9.45 AM - 12.00 PM:             URI Summer Research Symposium Session - 1

                                                Bioscience and Bioengineering - 1

12.00 PM - 12.45 PM:           Lunch and Networking

12.45 PM – 2.15 PM:            URI Summer Research Symposium Session -2

                                                Bioscience and Bioengineering - 2

2.15 PM – 2.30 PM:               Coffee Break

2.30 PM – 4.30 PM:               URI Summer Research Symposium Session -3

                                               Robotics and Machine Intelligence, and Others: Architecture and Design

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July 27, 2023, Ballroom A&B, Student Campus Center

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:              Registration and Breakfast

9.00 AM - 9.10 AM:               Introduction to the NAI-NJIT Workshop and Welcome Remarks

                                                Teik Lim, President

                                                Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President

9.10 AM - 9.40 AM:               Distinguished Keynote Presentation -1

                                                Robert Cohen, Chair, Board of Trustees and Inventor

                                                President, Stryker Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology

9.40 AM - 10.20 AM:             Distinguished Keynote Presentation -2

                                                Dereje Agonafer, Presidential Distinguished Professor, UTA, Member, National Academy of Engineering; Member, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; Fellow: AAAS, ASME and NAI

10.20 AM - 10.30 AM:           Break

10.30 AM - 11.30 AM:           URI Summer Research Symposium Session -4

                                              Data Science and Management

11.30 AM - 1.00 PM:             NAI-NJIT Chapter Launch and Induction Ceremony

11.30 AM – 11.45 AM:          State of the NAI-NJIT Chapter

                                             Atam Dhawan, President, NAI-NJIT Chapter

11.45 AM – 12.15 PM:           Distinguished Keynote Presentation -3

                                               Jamie Renee, Executive Director, NAI

12.15 PM – 12.30 PM:           NAI Chapter Induction Ceremony and Closing Remarks

12.30 PM – 1.00 PM:             Networking and Lunch

1.00 PM – 2.00 PM:               URI Summer Research Symposium Session -5

                                               Environment and Sustainability

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM:               URI Summer Research Symposium Session -6

                                                Material Science and Engineering

3.00 PM – 3.15 PM:               Break

3.15 PM- 3.30 PM:                 Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Awards

3.30 PM – 4.30 PM:               Reception

NSF: Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP); National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT); Program Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Sites and Supplements; Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)

NIH: Single Source: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (R24); Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R21); BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: FY23 Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Biological Technologies

Department of Energy: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Silicon Solar Manufacturing, and Dual-use Photovoltaics Incubator; Fiscal Year 2024 Distinguished Early Career Program

Inside NIST’s effort to lay the groundwork for a functional quantum computer:  Researchers affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology unveiled a new device last week that aims to cut down the “noise” generated by quantum computing systems’ information processing, part of a larger agency agenda to meet private sector innovation in the quantum information science and technology field.  The device, a programmable switch that can improve connectivity between two qubits, or quantum units of information, was initially introduced in a research paper. One of the authors, NIST physicist Ray Simmonds, told Nextgov/FCW that with these devices, NIST aims to enable future advances in quantum computing infrastructure.  “NIST is trying to…say, ‘what do we need to do to make that technology happen?’” he said. “Right now, Google and IBM have been working on scaling something up, and they're using a technology that can work on a larger scale…but it's not going to have all the functionality you need necessarily to make a robust machine at this point. There's other things that have to get sorted.” Making a strong switch between these qubits to help them perform calculations and other operations more accurately is one of those external components key to emerging QIST architectures. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Can NIH help drive health data access?: The National Institutes of Health released a new data-management and data-sharing policy this year that seeks to address longstanding data interoperability and oversight issues that have plagued the federal government’s response to public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. Its success will now depend on how effectively the policy can be implemented across the nation's medical research agency and its diverse network of complex IT systems that span hospitals, clinical centers, research institutions and external partners throughout the public health community.  The policy was years in the making, and collaboration across those complex IT systems was a key component from the beginning, according to Cindy Danielson, associate director of systems integration for NIH's Office of Research Reporting and Analysis.  “We are really looking to help enable a cultural shift in research, one in which data sharing is the norm,” Danielson said. “One lesson learned is that community engagement is really key, and NIH has focused on engaging the community while developing the policy, while implementing it and continuing now while it’s in effect.” The agency has since taken a phased approach and recently launched a pilot project with the research community to assess its implementation. The pilot is spearheaded by the Federal Demonstration Partnership, a cooperative of 10 federal agencies and more than 200 institutions focused on reducing administrative burdens associated with research funding. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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White House unveils fiscal 2025 cybersecurity investment priorities: The White House has released its cybersecurity investment priorities for fiscal 2025, urging federal agencies to adopt key pillars of the National Cybersecurity Strategy in their budget proposals and overall missions. The Office of Management and Budget memorandum issued Tuesday focuses on the same five pillars featured in the national cybersecurity strategy: defending critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling threat actors, shaping market forces to drive security, investing in a resilient future and forging international partnerships.  It calls on the federal government to modernize its information technology systems by investing in "durable, long-term solutions that are secure by design" and improving baseline cybersecurity  requirements. The fiscal 2025 priorities also align with the Federal Zero Trust Strategy released last year, which seeks to ensure governmentwide cybersecurity practices are in place and that every access attempt is verified on federal systems and networks. The memorandum instructs agencies to prioritize modernization efforts for systems that are reaching end of life or end of service, when they are typically at their most vulnerable to cyber intrusions. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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