New York Institute of Technology

Two teams of students from the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences participated in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics. The challenge tasked students with designing and prototyping a robotic machine to move on the catwalks of the Lincoln Tunnel. The two teams developed the Tunnel Emergency Response and Reconnaissance Automation (TERRA) and the Autonomous Response and Emergency Sentinel (A.R.E.S.), and team A.R.E.S. was selected to compete in the final round in May.

Two teams of College of Engineering and Computing Sciences students traveled to Albany, N.Y., on April 8, where they took home first- and second-place prizes at the New York State Industries for the Disabled's (NYSID) 10th annual Cultivating Resources for Employment with Assistive TEchnology (CREATE) Symposium. Each year, the symposium pairs teams of college engineering students with nonprofit organizations supporting those with developmental disabilities. The goal is to design inventions to assist such people in their everyday work tasks.

This March, six New York Institute of Technology students participated in the annual Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. The competition provides graduate and undergraduate students worldwide the opportunity to collaborate on innovative, multidisciplinary solutions to a real-world global health problem, or "case." This year, New York Tech students were among those from 31 universities across six continents who presented solutions to the case challenge, "Tackling India's Twindemic: Accelerating Integrated Diabetes Mellitus-Tuberculosis Care to End TB."

On March 19, New York Institute of Technology medical and undergraduate students participated in the annual Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. The event gives graduate and undergraduate students from across the world the opportunity to collaborate on innovative, multidisciplinary solutions to a real-world global health problem, or "case." Held virtually, this year's teams were charged with developing strategies to address environmental health disparities faced by indigenous populations. They were given one week to create a 10-minute presentation that addressed these public health challenges. The New York Tech team featured medical students from both of its NYITCOM locations (Long Island, N.Y. and Jonesboro, Ark.), as well as undergraduate students from the university's College of Engineering and Computing Sciences and College of Arts and Sciences. The students tackled the challenges of the indigenous peoples of French Polynesia, focusing primarily on the preservation of local language and climate change by addressing freshwater scarcity. Competing alongside prestigious institutions like Yale and Penn State, the New York Tech team went toe-to-toe with 40 teams across 15 countries. Members of the 2022 team included: Izza Arqam, an undergraduate student in the Life Sciences, B.S. program Vincent Carbone, an undergraduate student in the Mechanical Engineering, B.S. program Kaylee Bressler, a medical student at NYITCOM-Long Island Erika Levy, a medical student at NYITCOM-Arkansas Yash Makkapati, a medical student at NYITCOM-Arkansas Gianna Petrillo, a medical student at NYITCOM-Long Island The team was advised by NYITCOM student Anvin Thomas.

On May 20, a team of second-year physician assistant studies students took first place in the Yes, I Scan: Ultrasound Student Workshop and Competition. At the competition, held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Team Sonic Boom competed for the top honor against 36 other teams from physician assistant (PA) programs across the country. Team members demonstrated their ultrasound skills in a variety of clinical circumstances. One instance included the use of portable ultrasonography at a patient's bedside to quickly and correctly diagnose shock from a pulmonary embolism, which was caused by deep vein thrombosis of the leg. The students then also ordered the appropriate labs and treatment protocol.

New York Institute of Technology recognizes nine finalists who responded to a design challenge to create technology targeting one of the UN's seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. The students, from NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, worked in teams on a range of software and hardware projects. The competition is one of a series of challenges organized by the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center.

Three New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) students from the Department of Life Sciences earned first place awards for their research at the 2019 NYC SEA-PHAGES Regional Symposium. The annual symposium brings together New York City area colleges and universities that participate in the Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Program. The program, which is jointly administered by the University of Pittsburgh and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, allows college students to engage in research-based curricula. Program participants conduct wet lab and bioinformatics research to discover and investigate new bacteriophages, or soil-dwelling viruses that infect bacteria and may be the key to fighting antibiotic resistance. NYIT was recently invited to join this prestigious program.

On April 9, eight students from New York Institute of Technology's (NYIT) College of Engineering and Computing Sciences participated in the 2019 Long Island Business Plan Competition. The annual competition encourages students from Long Island colleges and universities to think like entrepreneurs and develop their own business.

Fifteen NYIT students from New York City and Long Island campuses formed eight teams and competed in the fifth ETIC Cybersecurity Hackathon. Teams had to solve an encryption problem, use the solution to unlock the next challenge, and so on until all the problems, in order of increasing difficulty, were solved. First, second, and third prizes were awarded to the fastest teams to solve all 15 problems.

On April 10, twenty-three students from New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) College of Engineering and Computing Sciences participated in a New York State Industries for the Disabled (NYSID) competition. In competition with other institutions, the NYIT students developed inventions to help those with disabilities succeed in the workplace.

Seventeen students from New York Institute of Technology's (NYIT) College of Engineering and Computing Sciences attended the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 1 Student Conference on March 8-9 at Binghamton University. The students competed against teams from prestigious universities in the northeastern United States, and also attended workshops and networking sessions.

New York Institute of Technology recognizes the 77 students who participated in the 2018 Service Learning Conference. The conference, organized by NYIT School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education and the Office of International and Experiential Education, invited participants to explore how to build a learning culture by collaborating with communities inside and outside NYIT.

NYIT recognizes 30 students selected for the Undergraduate Research and Entrepreneurship Program (UREP) in the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences. UREP researchers pursue group projects under supervision by engineering and computer science faculty mentors. Each group receives a small grant to cover project-related costs. UREP projects can run for a single semester or longer.

NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) students made an impressive showing at this year's Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (OMED), the world's largest gathering of osteopathic physicians and educators.

New York Institute of Technology's Ninth Annual Cybersecurity Conference highlighted the talent of future cyber experts in a poster competition. Undergraduate Stephan Brown of Manhattan's Upper West Side bested students and recent graduates of several area universities to take first prize in the undergraduate category. Competitors shared their original research with a panel of judges, who chose five winners to receive monetary prizes provided by conference sponsor CompTIA.