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Recycled-origin material appears to remove dangerous PFAS substances, a growing problem in New Jersey's drinking water

A novel, Stevens-innovated filter medium made from recycled water treatment by-products may offer protection against harmful and persistent chemicals seeping into the region's and nation's drinking water.

That's the conclusion of new Stevens research published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters.

Biomedical engineering Ph.D. student Mary Stack’s research could help improve healing for individuals with diabetic foot ulcers
Stevens Institute of Technology biomedical engineering doctoral graduate Mary Stack recently received the 2022 Young Innovator Award in Tissue Regeneration and Limb Preservation for her skin tissue engineering research.

Local K-12 students explore the technology and science behind biomechanics in four experiential learning sessions
To what extent are the muscle movements of a college athlete and a grandparent the same? How are they different? What does the brain do when someone is going out for a brisk walk or running a marathon? We can see muscle activity digitally captured through computer interfaces, but can we hear it too?
Eighty-two local students, grades seven thro...

Student groups researching different aspects of resilient infrastructure systems in the maritime domain last summer took the top three spots at the 11th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium. The event was hosted virtually in October 2020 by the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, and the National Academy of Sciences.

Virtually every business across industry verticals — banking and finance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics, energy resources, utilities, and life sciences — needs to undergo digital transformation.
But not every business senses how changes in digital technology, such as cloud and artificial intelligence (AI), the evolution of consumerism, and disruptions caused by the pandemic, are creating make-or-break opportunities in the global business climate.
Take for example b...

This piece was written for a digital marketplace for partners.

Organizations today are transitioning their SAP workloads to the cloud to achieve greater flexibility and scalability. Benefits of this move include increased efficiency, improved productivity beyond the initial transition, and the ability to deploy applications more rapidly than on-premise infrastructure supports.
While the underlying thread that enables successful cloud adoption is technology, digital transformation requires cooperation between leaders across business and technology functio...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every ten infants born in the U.S. in 2019 were preterm babies, which means they were born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Premature birth puts these infants at greater risk of disability, including hearing loss derived from noisy neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Stevens undergraduate biomedical engineering students Jake Fiore and Sophia Makepeace participated in a summer research project to develop a solution that ma...

Stevens teaching assistant professor Jan Cannizzo says the transition to online and hybrid teaching is a golden opportunity for instructors to adopt active learning methods in their classes.

Jan Cannizzo’s love of math started early in his childhood. Following periods of intense interest in astronomy and physics, he realized that mathematics was fundamental to both subjects, and abstract enough to explain almost anything.

Before becoming entrepreneurs, they arrived at Stevens from various places, backgrounds, and academic levels, and different ideas on how to make the world a better place. These students all had one belief in common: that their ideas could become successful businesses.

Mukund Iyengar, associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, believed that given the right environment, the innate talent of these students would flourish. So, he ...

In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine and its crew shrink to the size of a human cell to ride through the bloodstream of a scientist and remove a blood clot in his brain. An imaginative tale of science fiction, the movie speaks to humanity’s desire to explore realms considered impossible to reach due to our physical limitations. But thanks to technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), students in elementary schools are now doing just that. Today, students g...

Stevens’ coastal engineering program provides hands-on lab, field, and computer modeling experiences—all under one institutional roof—to arm students with essential skills for a competitive field.
When Hurricane Gloria pounded the northeastern United States in 1985, the football field across from Jon Miller’s childhood home in Rahway, NJ, filled up like a bowl with about eight feet of water. Disruptive natural events like these can spark a child’s curiosity, as it did for Miller at the time.
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This is an article I wrote on behalf of a digital marketing agency for higher education.

Online and mobile technologies, faster internet access, and increased connectivity have changed the way people consume content and make purchases, contributing to the rise of the digital economy. The emergence of the global digital economy has broad ramifications for federal, state and local income taxes. In the US, companies embedded in the digital economy may struggle to keep pace with tax laws and regulations.