Student Research Opportunities

Learn By Doing

At New York Institute of Technology, both our undergraduate and graduate students play an active role in creating new knowledge, making new discoveries, and developing technological innovations.

Help build implantable, wireless sensors that monitor the body’s gastric system, or develop new therapies to help children with developmental disorders grow emotionally and socially. Work on creating a prototype for a local tech startup, or conduct research on robotic functionality with our collaborative E.R.R.S.E.L.A. program. Tap into neuroscience to uncover insights for marketing, or explore virtual reality’s potential to enhance learning.

Whether you’re a first-year student eager to see how theories work or a graduate candidate aspiring to a research career, we not only invite your curiosity but equip you with the tools, environment, and guidance to pursue it.

Get Involved

Immerse yourself in a creative, solutions-driven community invested in innovation. Through faculty research, strategic partnerships, program elements, and more, you’ll get a broad, real-world perspective of your studies and learn to structure experiments, analyze data, and act upon your results.

Faculty Research

Work alongside faculty in cross-disciplinary research projects. Use VR to enhance learning, uncover new ways to detect cancer, automate emotion recognition through AI, and much more.

Industry and Corporate Partnerships

Expand your learning. Earn résumé-enhancing certifications in tech, prototype products for emerging businesses, and intern with regional healthcare providers to develop your clinical skills.

Thesis Research

As a graduate student, make a serious contribution to your field through your own original research. Explore previous students’ work to get inspired.

Capstones, Class Projects, and Practicum

Push yourself and apply your learning, from a detailed case analysis as a business major to a group-based design challenge in engineering to an immersive project for an industry partner.

Presentation and Publication Opportunities

abound, from the annual SOURCE and Aletheia symposia for student work to Atmosphere, our student-managed architecture journal, to presentations at national conferences.

Awards and Recognition

Our students get noticed, earning awards and recognition from the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Heart Association, and Metropolis magazine’s Future 100, among others.

Opportunities for Undergraduates

Engage in real research at the undergraduate level, tackling challenges under faculty guidance, contributing to ongoing projects during a paid summer internship, or designing your own experience as an Edward Guiliano Global Fellow.

Opportunities for Graduate and Doctoral Students

Build your experience and skills as a researcher while also receiving financial support. Participation enhances both your CV and your professional preparation.

Student Voices

The more I work on [bacteriophage research], read about it, and become engaged in wet lab research, the more passionate I become about all I could possibly do in the future with phage therapy.

Yamini Bhaveshbhai Patel
(B.S. ‘25)

[For the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship Program], pick a passion or interest that you would like to pursue, and then plan your application around that main purpose. It is truly an incredible experience and a chance to perform unique and memorable work.

Noah Chernik
(D.O. ’26)

Centers and Facilities

Across an impressive array of labs, centers, and innovation hubs, our students engage in research, develop their own ideas, and collaborate with faculty and industry partners to address 21st-century challenges.

What You’ll Do

Launch a Startup

Help launch a startup in bioengineering, robotics, nanotechnology, machine learning, or AI at the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), taking advantage of its advanced labs and facilities.

Develop Robots to Address Healthcare Staffing Shortages

Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of students to design and evaluate robotic technology for healthcare settings using ETIC’s E.R.R.S.E.L.A robot

Provide Small-Group Consulting to Local Businesses and Nonprofits

As a business student, work on real-world case studies for major corporations, advise local nonprofits, and contribute to research in marketing with support from faculty and alumni mentors.

Build More Sustainable Communities

Design sustainable, resilient architecture for local communities, curate an exhibit on housing density at New York’s Skyscraper Museum, and help rebuild for positive social impact in disaster-stricken areas.

Study the Therapeutic Effects of Superbugs

Contribute to research on the role of bacteriophages in fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs as an undergraduate life sciences major.

Study Movement to Improve Occupational Therapy Interventions

Use advanced wearable technology and machine learning to measure response to exercise in children with developmental and intellectual disorders to develop targeted therapies that improve their quality of life.

Recent Research News

Three New York Tech students talking to a farmer

Guiliano Global Fellows: Glacier Saviors, Exoplanets, and More

Under the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship Program, seven students traveled the globe, broadening their perspectives and working on transformational research projects.

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NYITCOM Presents at OMED 2024

College of Osteopathic Medicine students, faculty, and alumni shared scientific findings in San Antonio for this year’s Osteopathic Medical Education Conference.

Portrait of Manny Singh and Dong Zhang

Unlocking Cancer’s Molecular Processes

In a new study, cancer researchers at the College of Osteopathic Medicine continue the historic work of a world-renowned Nobel laureate and may explain why some human cells become cancerous, spread, and resist treatment.

Improving Understanding of Cognitive Impairments

An NIH-funded study by a College of Osteopathic Medicine researcher could improve understanding of brain cell function and help deliver a cure for intellectual disability.

An Alumnus Takes Down Barriers to Eye Care

Optometrist Dean Hart, OD (B.S. ’82), dedicates his time to service and humanitarianism, donating his resources to provide eye care for those in need.

A technology sphere at New York Tech.

Keep Exploring

Translate your curiosity and passion into hands-on experiences that make an impact at New York Tech.