NJIT Implementation of Recent Executive Orders
Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2025-04
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Michael Worden Joins the Office of Research as IP Licensing Manager
Welcome to Michael Worden as the new IP Licensing Manager in the Intellectual Property and Licensing Office with the Office of Research.
Michael is an accomplished IP professional with over two decades of experience in business affairs, licensing, and royalties’ management. As the Manager of Business Affairs at Alfred Music he played a pivotal role in the administration of licensing agreements for a wide array of prestigious music catalogs, including those of ABKCO, Warner-Chappell, and Warner Bros. Discovery. His deep understanding of licensing agreements, copyright, trademarks, and royalties’ management has been instrumental in navigating the complexities of intellectual property contracts, including the negotiation and enforcement of licensing terms, rights management, and the financial implications of intellectual property usage. Michael is also a dedicated educator, sharing his extensive music industry knowledge as an adjunct professor of Music Business at Rowan University and Kutztown University. Additionally, he serves as a guest lecturer in the Rutgers Executive MBA program, where he focuses on Intellectual Property Management and the impact of AI. Fun fact: Michael has an extensive performance background with notable appearances in film and television, including "Drive-Away Dolls" directed by Ethan Coen, "The Equalizer," "FBI," "Law and Order: SVU," and numerous national commercials.
Michael will be responsible for marketing and managing the licensed intellectual property (IP) portfolio of the university, administering licensing agreements, developing and maintaining relationships between the university and license holders with post-licensing-execution activities. He can be reached in Suite 340, Fenster and via phone at 973.642.4207 or email at Michael.worden@njit.edu.
NSF: Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI); Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS); Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC); Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
NIH: Investigator Gateway Awards for Collaborative T1D Research (R03); NIA Postdoctoral Fellowship Award to Promote Broad Participation in Translational Research for AD/ADRD (F32); T32 Training Program to Promote Broad Participation (T32); NIA Predoctoral Fellowship Award to Promote Broad Participation in Translational Research for AD/ADRD (F31)
Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: AFRL FY25 Compositional Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Control (CODAC) UNIVERSITY CENTER OF EXCELLENCE; ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
Department of Energy: 2025 Exploratory Research for Extreme-Scale Science; Early Career Research Program; High-Energy-Density Laboratory Plasma Science; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Accelerating CO2 Conversion Technology Development and Deployment – Biological, Catalytic, and Mineralization Pathways; Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
NASA: ROSES 2024: A.52 Advanced Component Technology
National Endowment of Humanities: Humanities Initiatives
Industry launches $100B AI-infrastructure effort: Oracle, OpenAI, and investors in Japan and the UAE have launched a $100 billion effort to build data centers to run AI applications, an indication of how the U.S.-China race for artificial intelligence is beginning to turn on sheer computing power instead of clever programming. Oracle has already begun building 10 data centers in Texas of a half-million square feet apiece for the project, dubbed Stargate, CEO Larry Ellison said Tuesday at a White House press conference. “That will expand to 20, and other locations,” Ellison said. The venture is being operated by generative AI company OpenAI, which will be the primary user of the data centers, a person familiar with the deal told Defense One. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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Inauguration Week and Executive Orders: As expected, it has been a busy first week for the 2nd Trump Administration. Even amidst the pomp and circumstance of Inauguration Day and promising a new Golden Age in America, President Trump signed, as promised, a record number of Executive Actions and Orders. Many of these are first steps toward enacting his sweeping agenda promising transformation of the federal government, including: ending Biden-era policies, re-instating Trump’s first term policies, and advancing even more policies through aggressive use of executive authority. Some actions take immediate effect while others lay a marker for future near-term action by the Administration, like on promised tariffs. The actions, signed by Trump in the first week of his administration, are the culmination of pledges he made during his successful 2024 campaign, and others that were floated during his first term but ultimately did not come to pass. Not all of the initiatives have a clear path to realization, with some of the most significant actions, such as the end to birthright citizenship, already facing court challenges. For a running list of Trump's planned Executive Orders, Actions, proclamations, and legislation, read more here.
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Commerce announces new export control on US AI products: A new rule unveiled by the Biden administration focuses on securing U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence deployment and innovation by enabling the interchange of sensitive AI technologies with partner nations and enacting further safeguards to prevent access from adversarial countries. Announced on Monday, the directive imposed by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security places new export controls on components of AI softwares and technologies. The specific elements targeted by the rule include advanced GPU computing chips and select, closed AI mode weights.
The changes made to Commerce’s licensing requirements work to thread the needle between continued commercial trade while mitigating the national security risk accompanying the proliferation of superconducting chips. Some exceptions exist for supply chain operations, except to arms-embargoed countries. The rule also includes new license updates to Commerce’s existing Data Center Validated End User authorization.
The diffusion of semiconductor chips falls into similar crosshairs. Raimondo confirmed that supply chain operations like packaging and testing are explicitly excluded in the new rule, but that new controls for advanced computing chips will require new authorizations for exports, reexports and transfers. More information is posted on the NextGov website.
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