Ewing, NJ - As part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program, The College of New Jersey has been awarded a three-year, $400,000 grant to strengthen innovation and encourage partnerships with industry, nonprofits and governmental entities. The college will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in this work.
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Glassboro, NJ - A Rowan University psychologist has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, the first researcher at the 100-year-old academic institution to do so. The award is part of the agency’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports highly innovative scientists who propose visionary and broadly impactful behavioral and biomedical research projects.
Washington DC - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country and 29 Strategy Development Grants. This announcement marks the first phase of the new Tech Hubs program, an economic development initiative authorized in the CHIPS and Science Act and designed to drive regional innovation and job creation by strengthening a region’s capacity to manufacture, commercialize, and deploy technology that will advance American competitiveness.
New Brunswick, NJ - RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey are announcing a transformative investment that will help conquer cancer through groundbreaking research and personalized, compassionate, patient care. The state’s largest academic health system and New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center are launching this joint venture to provide state-of-the-art facilities, translational research, sophisticated technologies and nationally recognized faculty, physicians and staff that will reimagine cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Columbus, OH - According to Conor Gowder, "Jobs held by degree holders in Science and Engineering (S&E) fields make important contributions to our nation’s economic growth and global competitiveness, fueling innovative capacity through research, development, and other technologically advanced work activities, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF). This edition of Useful Stats will explore NSF National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and National Science Board (NSB) education data, specifically data on S&E associate and bachelor’s degrees, and the S&E workforce supplied by the educational systems."
Washington DC - Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Laurie E. Locascio recently revealed in public comments that approximately $3 billion in funding for the National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program will be used to drive U.S. leadership in advanced packaging. Advanced packaging is a cutting-edge design and manufacturing method that places multiple chips with a variety of functions in a densely interconnected two- or three-dimensional “package.” This design paradigm, according to a press release from NIST, “can help the sector achieve the ever denser, smaller dimensions that the most advanced semiconductors require.” But NIST also notes that “currently, the United States is limited in both conventional and advanced packaging capacity.”
New Brunswick, NJ - According to Sandip Shah, "New Jersey leads the nation when it comes to drug development — and it's not particularly close. We boast the highest concentration of scientists per square mile of any state. Fourteen of the top 20 American pharmaceutical companies have a presence in New Jersey, including Johnson & Johnson and Merck, which were instrumental in developing COVID-19 vaccines and therapies. All told, the life sciences sector generates over $33 billion of our state GDP."
Washington DC - The National Science Foundation recently announced awarding more than $100 million to 18 teams at academic institutions across the nation through the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program. An NSF press release states, “NSF's investment will enable academic institutions to accelerate the pace and scale of translational research that will grow the nation's economy.”
Columbus, OH - According to SSTI, "The United States is home to some of the world's most prestigious universities, each performing critical research that helps advance the country’s innovation economy. However, these universities are not evenly distributed across the country; many are concentrated within large cities in states where their spillover further impacts the local economies. This edition of Useful Stats explores Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey data from the newest fiscal year (FY) 2022 data release. Specifically, a state and institution-level look at HERD expenditures over the last decade of available data will be conducted to explore any trends."
Westerville, OH - According to Conor Gowder, "The United States' 42 federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) received a record $26 billion in federal government funding in fiscal year 2022 — a nearly 6% increase compared to the previous year. FFRDCs expended $26.5 billion on R&D in FY 2022, marking the ninth consecutive year of nominal growth. On average, FFRDCs have increased R&D expenditures by 1.3% per annum since 2012. Yet when looking at only the three most recent years of available data, from FY 2020-2022, this average drops to just 0.4%."
Trenton, NJ - According to Dorothy Reed, "I don’t know about you, but when I hear about the Inflation Reduction Act, molecule-based price controls and drug classification, I ask, how are those theoretical policies being hashed out in Washington D.C. going to affect the women I serve? I am a 24-year breast cancer survivor and the co-founder and president of Sister2Sister, a nonprofit organization that supports minority and underserved women with breast cancer. We’ve heard a lot about health disparities for people of color in recent years, so much so that you would think we might, finally, be closing the gap."
Trenton, NJ - U.S. News and World Report released its annual ranking of the top 100 universities in the nation today, with Princeton University topping the list for the 13th year in a row. Additionally, all three Rutgers University campuses – New Brunswick (No. 40), Newark (No. 82) and Camden (No. 98) – made the list together for the first time. The other New Jersey institutions to make the top 100 include Stevens Institute of Technology (No. 76) and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (No. 86), marking a record six total schools in the top 100 for the Garden State.
Trenton, NJ - NJBIA President & CEO Michele Siekerka and other New Jersey leaders joined U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) on Monday in calling for government and businesses to work together to safeguard American innovation from China’s economic aggression, unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft. Sherrill, a member of the newly created House Select Committee on China, held a Trenton news conference with manufacturers, business leaders, labor union officials, state lawmakers and higher education leaders to underscore the threat that the Chinese Communist Party’s “Made in China 2025” campaign poses to U.S.’s economic and national security.
Washington DC - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) recently announced the 11 recipients of the 2023 STEM Talent Challenge. The challenge supports programs to train science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent and fuel regional innovation economies across the nation. The $4.5 million competition provides up to $500,000 in funding for programs that complement their region’s innovation economy, create pathways to good-paying STEM careers, and build talent pipelines for businesses to fill in-demand jobs in emerging and transformative sectors.
Trenton, NJ - In a landscape where the wealth gap only seems to widen, New Jersey Community Capital (NJCC) is doing more than just talking about change; it’s financing it. As the Garden State’s largest nonprofit community development financial institution, NJCC puts its money where its mission is: affordable housing, small business lending, and affordable homeownership, particularly in neighborhoods most often left behind.
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