News about PTI and our many constituents! Coding, Computational Biology, and Confidence Sept. 26, 2024 Before enrolling at Rutgers University as a computer science major, Wali Palmer, a 45-year-old Camden resident, had zero knowledge of computers. He’d spent 25 years in prison, and around the time he was released in 2023, he decided “the best and fastest way for me to get on track and try to develop a better understanding of computers and… Princeton University offers STEM program to formerly incarcerated individuals Sept. 24, 2024 Since 2017, the Ivy League institution has given practical STEM experience and mentorship to students impacted by the criminal justice system.A criminal record can pose a barrier to employment, especially in a STEM-related… PTI summer intern alum named a Truman Scholar April 16, 2024 Paul Boyd, a PTI summer intern alum ('23) and current Rutgers undergrad, has just been named a Truman Scholar! PTI teacher Pasquale Toscano named Jacobus Fellow Feb. 29, 2024 José de Jesús Montaño López, Geneva Smith, Pasquale Toscano, and Ryan Unger have been named winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students. The Jacobus Fellows will be honored at Alumni Day Formerly incarcerated students dive into engineering research Aug. 28, 2023 Before his internship at Princeton University this summer, Wali Palmer knew lasers as highly focused beams of light. But his research experience at Princeton opened Palmer’s eyes to laser-based devices that could detect disease, perform surgeries and sense dangerous gases — and put him on a path toward designing them.
