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NJ Department of Labor announces $3M pre-apprenticeship training grant

1/15/2019

From NJBIZ
To better align secondary, post-secondary, and adult education and occupational training to the needs of Garden State employers, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced a notice of grant opportunity for $3 million to promote upward mobility and economic fairness through the Pre-Apprenticeship in Career Education Training Program. The PACE Training Program will provide funding to eligible businesses and organizations to prepare people to enter registered apprenticeship programs. These pre-apprenticeship programs will have a documented partnership with at least one registered apprenticeship program sponsor. Together they are intended to expand the participant’s career pathway opportunities with industry-based training coupled with classroom instruction. Read more here.

STEM event targets tween girls from South Jersey, supported by @BCITtweets

1/13/2019

Galloway Township, NJ - Bella Maschio stood on the balcony overlooking the Grand Hall at Stockton University’s Campus Center holding out a carefully wrapped, uncooked egg. Then she dropped it. Below, her teammate Dayanara Torres waited, eyes wide. The egg landed with a thud, but ultimately unscathed, to the girls’ delight. Bella, 13, from the Margaret Mace School in North Wildwood, and Dayanara, 12, of the Pennsylvania Avenue School in Atlantic City, were taking part in Stockton’s annual Tween Tech program, open to more than 200 young girls from all over South Jersey interested in science, technology, engineering and math.

Rowan awarded Carnegie high-research classification

1/13/2019

Glassboro, NJ - The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education last week announced Rowan University received a Carnegie R2 classification (high research activity), naming it just one of 139 of more than 4,300 colleges and universities across the country with that distinction. “Rowan reached R2 status by rapidly expanding our research portfolio—while remaining committed to undergraduate education,” according to Dr. Ali A. Houshmand, president.

Published in Nature, Rowan-led research finds Greenland ice melting at unprecedented rates

1/13/2019

Glassboro, NJ - Leading an international team of researchers, Dr. Luke Trusel, a glaciologist in Rowan’s Department of Geology (School of Earth & Environment), is the lead author of an article published in the journal Nature that demonstrates the mile-thick Greenland ice sheet is melting, running off into the ocean, and contributing to rising global sea levels at rates far greater than normal. Based largely on the analysis of refrozen melt layers in ice core samples extracted from Greenland, the study shows that Greenland’s melt began increasing at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has greatly accelerated over the last several decades to levels that have not been experienced over at least the last several centuries, if not thousands of years.

Useful Stats: State government investments in R&D, 2012-2017

1/13/2019

Trenton, NJ - Every state government invested at least $1.0 million in research and development in FY 2017, according to recent data from the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Education Statistics. During the three-year period from FY 2015 to FY 2017, California ($551.8 million per year), New York ($403.2 million per year), and Texas ($244.9 million per year) state governments averaged the most R&D expenditures. In FY 2017, these three states accounted for 49.8 percent of the national total, up from 45.6 percent of the total invested by state governments in 2012.

Miles Technologies Uses NJEDA Support to Establish Permanent Burlington County Headquarters

1/13/2019

TRENTON, NJ - When Burlington County native Chris Miles launched technology-based business solutions provider Miles Technologies from his Shamong basement in 1997, he did so with the goal of helping people accomplish more. Today, Miles is still at the helm of his company and remains more committed than ever to providing top-notch information technology (IT) services for customers, while at the same time creating job opportunities and educational programs for people interested in a technology career.

NJBIA Releases Indicators of Innovation Report

1/13/2019

Trenton, NJ - Indicators of Innovation, a report issued today by the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, shows New Jersey at a challenging crossroads in its efforts to reclaim itself as the "Innovation State." The study uses data to analyze 12 indicators of innovation under three major categories imperative for creating a successful innovation ecosystem – capital, talent and business. Compared with six other regional states, however, New Jersey is struggling to compete, the report finds.

NJDOH awarded $2.3M to enhance pediatric behavioral care through telehealth

1/10/2019

From NJBIZ
The New Jersey Department of Health announced Thursday it was awarded more than $2.3 million to enhance primary, behavioral and mental health care for children and adolescents through telehealth consultation and new education programs. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration awarded the state DOH $445,000 for five years — a total of $2,225,000. The Nicholson Foundation is supporting this initiative with $109,000. The funds will provide technical assistance and training to 1,800 primary care providers on screening, early identification, diagnosis, referral and treatment of children and adolescents with mental and behavioral health disorders using telehealth. Read more here.

Rutgers Researcher Awarded $400,000 NIH Grant for Smartphone Study

1/10/2019

From New Jersey Business
Jean-Francois Daneault, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Health Professions, received a $400,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health to use wearable and mobile data to diagnose and monitor movement disorders. With the aging population, more people are living with movement disorders but there is a shortage of neurologists and movement disorder specialists trained to diagnose and manage treatment. Read more here.

The New Era of Disruptive Technologies

1/7/2019

From New Jersey Business

While smartphones today can more rapidly transmit data than they once could, United States users are on the cusp of experiencing 5G technology, which will usher in extremely lower latency, vastly more capacity, higher security, scalability – and a staggering 99.999 percent reliability. Marcus Weldon, president of Bell Labs, who is also chief technology officer of the tech giant Nokia, tells New Jersey Business magazine, “Phone calls are actually 99.8 [percent reliable]. It is annoying that [they] drop down for .2 seconds, but it [does not] kill us … in an industrial system, that could cause a robot to veer off course and do something tragically bad; a car to hit something; a train to derail. We need 99.999 percent reliability [for 5G] systems.” Read more here.

Useful Stats: NIH SBIR/STTR Success Rates by State (2008-2017)

1/6/2019

Columbus, OH - One of the best ways to measure the effectiveness of state programs intended to encourage the success of SBIR applications is the approval-rate of their submissions. Although this data has been historically unavailable across every federal agency, it is now accessible for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the second largest provider of SBIR/STTR awards, according to a 2018 Digest report. The NIH distributed $446.2 million in SBIR/STTR awards in 2017, with every state except North and South Dakota receiving an award. Although California and Massachusetts had the most successful SBIR/STTR applications in 2017, accounting for roughly one-third of the total when combined, neither state ranked among the top 10 in success rate.

NJII Receives US-EDA Grant for NJ Bio-Foundry Development

1/6/2019

Trenton, NJ - The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), an NJIT Corporation, in partnership with the Innovation Accelerator Foundation (IAF), has been awarded a $749.8 thousand grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), as part of its Regional Innovation Strategies i6 Program to lead the creation of the NJ Bio-Foundry. The NJ Bio-Foundry will bring together a network of partners to expand the growing innovation biopharmaceuticals cluster in New Jersey, with a focus on New Jersey cell and gene therapies and biologics.

NJIT Launches Potent Research Hub: Institute for Space Weather Sciences

1/6/2019

Newark, NJ - Both on land and in space, Earth’s technology-centered civilization is increasingly vulnerable to the powerful bursts of electromagnetic radiation, energetic charged particles and magnetized plasma known as space weather. As the complexity of engineered systems increases, as new technologies are invented and deployed, and as humans venture ever further beyond Earth’s surface, both human-built systems and humans themselves become more susceptible to the effects of the planet’s space environment.

Eagleton Science and Politics Initiative

1/6/2019

New Brunswick, NJ - The Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship Program will give four participating New Jersey legislative or executive offices the assistance of a trusted in-house science adviser. The Fellows will be Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers who will serve as full-time science aides for one year.

Murphy Signs Legislation Establishing STEM Loan Redemption Program

1/6/2019

Trenton, NJ - Alongside administration officials, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law establishing a STEM Loan Redemption Program within the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA). This program will provide graduates of New Jersey colleges and universities employed in STEM fields with $1,000 each year for a maximum of 4 years towards their student loans, which will be matched by the participant’s employer. The Governor proposed STEM Loan Forgiveness during his gubernatorial campaign, in his Budget Message as part of his vision to grow the innovation economy, and had previously announced the initiative at the Stevens Institute of Technology.