New Jersey Institute of Technology
EN-10: Community Partnerships

Jersey Cares has developed a structure for community stewardship among a fully engaged coalition of institutions of higher learning, leading corporate and private citizens, and other stakeholders who care about Essex County Branch Brook Park. Leading the movement is a core group of well-trained Jersey Cares - Care of the Park employees who assist the Essex County Parks Department with seasonal maintenance and upkeep throughout the park. Most months of the year we have teams of supervised volunteers deployed throughout the park working on a number of site-specific projects. Volunteer groups are welcome to come once or multiple times. Here are three ways to serve this opportunity. Volunteer Groups of student volunteers often visit the park multiple times during the semester to clean and preserve the park's natural beauty.

https://www.jerseycares.org/careofthepark
https://branchbrookpark.org/volunteer.html
https://njitvector.com/2022/10/branch-brook-park-volunteering-caring-and-contributing-to-wellbeing/

Newark races to replace thousands of lead-based pipes that feed drinking water into homes, and the city faces another urgent challenge: stopping the heavy metal from leaching into the water supply while the massive remediation effort is underway. To mitigate exposure over the life of the project, which is expected to take up to 30 months, a research team is working with the city to develop and test chemical methods to prevent lead-shedding corrosion in as many as 18,000 service lines that stretch from the water main located under streets into dwellings.

https://news.njit.edu/getting-lead-out-newarks-drinking-water
https://njitvector.com/2020/02/lucia-rodriguez-friere-lead-water-research/
https://issuu.com/njit/docs/2019_president_s_report/s/11861008
https://steveadubato.org/environmental-sustainability-in-the-age-of-covid.html

The mobile medical care unit (M2CU), which NJIT developed in partnership with University Hospital in Newark and The Tuchman Foundation and unveiled in July, is made from repurposed shipping containers and designed for many uses, including clinical point-of-care services at hospitals overwhelmed by the global pandemic. On campus, it becomes the hub for the weekly testing of some 400 members of the community — a key component of NJIT’s multi-pronged approach to minimizing the spread of the coronavirus.
The M2CU, or Mobile Medical Care Unit, is a standard shipping container repurposed for clinical operations that represents a unique collaboration between the healthcare, business, and research communities of University Heights. It is designed to be highly transportable and provide versatile, modular “flex space” to hospitals, especially in times of crisis.

https://njitvector.com/2020/11/njit-collaborates-on-recycled-mobile-medical-care-unit/
https://news.njit.edu/njit-turns-mobile-medical-care-prototype-hub-covid-19-testing
https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/news/njit-designed-mobile-medical-unit-deployed-in-queens-to-tackle-rising-covid-cases/

A team of NJIT physicists has developed a novel test swab that can be 3D printed using inexpensive, widely available materials and speedily assembled in a range of fabrication settings. To augment the nation’s testing capabilities, the inventors are making the swab’s design publicly available to large and small manufacturers, free of licensing fees, during the COVID-19 emergency.

https://research.njit.edu/open-covid-public-statement#:~:text=To%20boost%20efforts%20across%20the,to%20the%20Open%20COVID%20Pledge.
https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-014187
https://news.njit.edu/njit-physics-team-provides-novel-swab-design-free-charge-augment-covid-19-testing

The students behind The CommonHealth Project — a collaborative, community-based initiative aimed at rallying volunteers for the production and distribution of urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) — came together through Albert Dorman Honors College’s PPE competition. They included Mark Pothen, a mechanical engineering major, Adé Kolade, a Dorman Scholar studying electrical engineering, and Ruth Fiore, Owais Aftab, Parth Agrawal and Juliana Yang, all biomedical engineering students (Aftab and Agrawal are also accelerated pre-health).

https://njtechweekly.com/njit-venturelink-startup-showcase-features-student-entrepreneurs/
https://www.parthagrawal.com/projects/chp

NJIT's work during COVID-19 pandemic
https://issuu.com/njit/docs/2020_president_s_report/s/14804277

NJIT's work during COVID-19 pandemic
https://issuu.com/njit/docs/2020_president_s_report/s/14804277