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Anti-Vaxxers Bring Back Measles

Anti-Vaxxers Bring Back Measles

Luis Andrade and landrade March 16, 2019

For the first time in five years, a preventable disease thought to have been eradicated reemerged in Costa Rica, inadvertently imported into the country by a 5-year-old French boy on vacation with his...

New Jersey Receives D+ on Infrastructure Report

New Jersey Receives D+ on Infrastructure Report

Isaac Scafe and iscafe March 7, 2019

It's pothole season in NJ As the winter ends and spring blooms, drivers must now prepare for “pothole” season. Potholes form during the winter season when snow and ice melt, seeping into cracks in...

Nuclear Winter as Described by Alan Robock

Nuclear Winter as Described by Alan Robock

Jay Kappraff and jkappraff March 7, 2019

On Mar. 25, at one of the pre-conference events held to promote NJIT’s upcoming conference on nuclear war, Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers...

Workplace Diversity

Workplace Diversity

Yasmine Ibrahim and yibrahim February 28, 2019

As Tim Berners Lee says: "We need diversity of thought in the world to face new challenges"  "Diversity" is a modern value meaning that something possesses a variety of different elements and, especially...

Left, Right, Middle: Police want to remove the ability to report checkpoints in Waze. Is this ethical? Should they be allowed to do so? What does the law say?

Left, Right, Middle: Police want to remove the ability to report checkpoints in Waze. Is this ethical? Should they be allowed to do so? What does the law say?

Luis Andrade, landrade, ncheney, and Flynn Thomas February 21, 2019

[one_third]Liberal - Nicole Cheney Recent complaints from the New York City Police department allege the use of the police flagging feature on Waze, a traffic and map app, to be liable to criminal...

NJIT Health Student EMT-CSO Update

NJIT Health Student EMT-CSO Update

John Hawks and jhawks February 21, 2019

The Student EMT and Community Service Officer program began its second semester on campus and is eager for new club members and volunteers. Having begun last semester under the auspices of NJIT Public...

The US Cold War Treaty

The US Cold War Treaty

Parth Agrawal and pagrawal February 21, 2019

The US is now on track to withdraw from a major Cold War-era treaty restricting nuclear weapons. President Trump delivered a statement on the Feb. 1 declaring that within six months, the country would...

How a Tragic Shooting Changed a Campus and a Brotherhood

How a Tragic Shooting Changed a Campus and a Brotherhood

Adrian Wong and adrianwong February 21, 2019

On May 2, 2016 the NJIT community awoke to frightening news—a student had been shot and killed. Joseph Micalizzi was up late studying in his room when two criminals broke into the Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE)...

The Sinister Politics of E-Cigarettes

The Sinister Politics of E-Cigarettes

Katherine Ji, kji, and pagrawal February 21, 2019

In 2015, Juul began releasing USB-rechargeable e-cigarettes and cartridges (called pods) with 5% nicotine content—the equivalent of one pack of cigarettes—while competing companies offered products...

Why We Need a Wall, and How Trump Wasted Our Time

Why We Need a Wall, and How Trump Wasted Our Time

Flynn Thomas February 17, 2019

In game theory, chicken is an experiment that everyone is quite familiar with: the only way to make the other player yield is to make a definitive statement that you're willing to risk mutual destruction....

Research Says: Stick to Your Fitness Goals for One More Week

Research Says: Stick to Your Fitness Goals for One More Week

Sandra Raju February 14, 2019

Stick to your fitness goals for just one more week: researchers at the University of Texas, Austin recently discovered that previously sedentary young adults instructed to exercise regularly began choosing...

Kingdom Hearts 3

Kingdom Hearts 3

Ivan Hernandez February 14, 2019

This week saw the release of “Kingdom Hearts III” (KH3), the latest installment in the Kingdom Hearts series, developed by Square Enix and Disney. Many fans, such as myself, have been waiting a long...

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