Big cancer-therapy ambitions for 3D-printed ‘mini colon’
By GREGORY ZELLER // The species that brought you Mini-Me, the MINI Cooper and M&M’s Minis now gives a poop with the “mini colon.” Behold, the world’s first functional, drug-testable,…
NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences
No. 870: Launching labs, lauding Lieberman and creating Coke (and holy hell … a Good Book grift?!?)
Take your time: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we wrap up the week and the month – yes, by the time we see you again on Monday, it…
PhDs without borders in new engineering consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new multi-college agreement will see New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University engineering students attending classes at top Northeast schools including Princeton, Columbia…
No. 789: Hypertension, segregation, smallpox, crappy porn … fortunately, innovation has the answers
This blows: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the days grow longer, brighter and warmer – and seasonal allergy victims grow frantic, including an increasing number of adult-onset sufferers….
Graphic content: New York Tech’s animated history
By TOM MARINER // The $99.7 billion movie industry and the $198 billion videogame industry both bank on computer-generated realism that was birthed on Long Island. One master innovator on…
New York Tech co-ops open doors for IT undergrads
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology will create new professional onramps for computer science students with help from an old friend of Long Island innovation. Peter…
For these NASA patents, ETIC is just their prototype
By GREGORY ZELLER // Some of the New York Institute of Technology’s brightest minds and boldest scientific thinkers are soaring through a new agreement with NASA. The National Aeronautics and…
NSF puts New York Tech on the Edge of Tomorrow
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology is living on the edge. Forget the Aerosmith jokes – this is serious business concerning “edge computing,” a distributed-computing paradigm…
Island institutions compute new joint-admissions deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // The big joint-admissions wheel keeps on turning, with two more Long Island institutions joining forces to speed collegians toward higher degrees. This time, the wheel stops…
Laugh, and your super-accelerated AI laughs with you
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology computer-science researchers are pushing artificial intelligence ever closer to human norms – including efforts to help AI better understand human emotion….
No. 491: On clean energy, Hispanic engineers and the autism advantage – plus, finding our religion
Needs work: Hello again, dear readers, and welcome to April 10, the umpteenth day of social distancing and the 101st day of a year in need of major improvement….
At NYIT, a science lab also working on the workforce
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology’s brightest will multiply their minds in the university’s new Biomedical Sciences and Bioengineering Laboratory, where biology times engineering equals 21st century…
Island ‘hub’ scores as New York Tech adds second PhD
By GREGORY ZELLER // There’s another doctorate in the house at the New York Institute of Technology, which has announced its first-ever computer science PhD program. Starting in the Fall…
NYIT at the center of food/energy/water nexus, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // The food/energy/water nexus will center once again on the New York Institute of Technology, courtesy of another chunky federal grant. Principal investigator Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, an…
No. 402: A Machiavellian mashup featuring NYIT grants, Farmingdale State fairs and ‘Breezy’ Bob Catell
You made it: Welcome to Friday, friends, and the finale of another busy workweek. It’s May 3 out there, and as full-blooded advocacy journalists, we’re proud to come to…