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ACMs First Fully Virtual HackNJIT

ACM’s First Fully Virtual HackNJIT

Sreya Das and sdas November 25, 2020

Each year, NJIT’s chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) hosts HackNJIT, a 24-hour hackathon. The seventh iteration of this annual event started last Saturday, Nov. 7 at 10 am,...

Residents Packing Up Their Bags Amid COVID-19 Surges

Residents Packing Up Their Bags Amid COVID-19 Surges

Evan Markowitz and Katherine Ji November 25, 2020

After a rapid rise in positive COVID-19 cases on-campus, the NJIT community was recently made aware of the decision to transition to fully remote instruction beginning Nov. 25. With this transition, students...

Murray Center Talks Climate Change

eomalley November 12, 2020

With the historic (and quite contentious) 2020 election only a few days behind us, many pertinent political issues have reached the forefront of the collective consciousness. Not the least of these issues...

AIChE awarded Outstanding Chapter of the Year

AIChE awarded Outstanding Chapter of the Year

Hannah Lenkowski and hlenkowski November 11, 2020

NJIT’s chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) won the Outstanding Chapter Award for the third consecutive year.   AIChE defines itself as “a professional...

Art in a New Age: NJIT/Rutgers’ Theatre Department Continues to Create (Safely)

Art in a New Age: NJIT/Rutgers’ Theatre Department Continues to Create (Safely)

Adam Wainwright and awainwright November 11, 2020

The Director’s Project one act plays are something that occur every year for the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)/Rutgers’ theatre program. This event allows burgeoning...

NJIT Mailroom Outsources Management

NJIT Mailroom Outsources Management

Daniil Ivanov and divanov November 4, 2020

On Oct. 21, the NJIT community received a bulletin that stated that the Cullimore Hall mailroom would be outsourced. Though the physical mailroom will still be operational, the operations will be performed...

COVID-19s Effect on NJIT Athletics

COVID-19’s Effect on NJIT Athletics

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief November 4, 2020

Many sports seasons and fitness programs at schools and institutions have been altered, or even canceled, across the country as a safety precaution to stop the spread of the virus. NJIT has been able...

Anti-Cheating Measures  Overly Invasive

Anti-Cheating Measures Overly Invasive

Sabastian Fernandes and sfernandes October 28, 2020

“Respondus Lockdown Browser” has become a phrase synonymous with fear that makes the stomachs of college students everywhere turn with disgust. With virtual learning becoming the...

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The Fifty-Five Dollar Question: Student Activities Fee

Sabastian Fernandes and sfernandes October 28, 2020

Among the hubbub of the start of every college semester, one thing that most all college students dread to see are their tuition fees. While the Bursar’s office reassures us that all of our money is...

How NJIT Student Senate is Spending Your Money

Daniil Ivanov and divanov September 30, 2020

In April 2020, the NJIT Student Senate elections came to a close and the new senators and executive board got to work on setting up for the Fall 2020 semester. This included $866,000 that the...

NJIT Makerspaces PPE Shortage Initiative

NJIT Makerspace’s PPE Shortage Initiative

Flynn Thomas, pagrawal, and Parth Agrawal September 24, 2020

As case counts shot up, classes shut down and NJIT students scrambled to get home safely in March 2020, the engineers at the NJIT Makerspace began to plan.    “In mid-March, when it...

Testing and Tracking: Virus Detected in Wastewater in Cypress Hall

Testing and Tracking: Virus Detected in Wastewater in Cypress Hall

Katherine Ji and kji September 24, 2020

On the night of Sept. 16, NJIT was alerted to the news that wastewater testing done in Cypress Hall yielded a positive result for viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA material. It’s dirty work, but it may have prevented...

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