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The Vector

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Arctic Spring Has Come...Early

Arctic Spring Has Come…Early

Siri Uppuluri and suppuluri May 9, 2019

Spring has sprung in the Arctic this year and this change in seasons is coming nearly 20 days earlier than it did two decades ago, according to observations from a recent study published in the scientific...

Vietnamese Grocery Wrappers are Bananas

Vietnamese Grocery Wrappers are Bananas

Siri Uppuluri and suppuluri April 24, 2019

A stroll through the aisles of produce in a supermarket in Southeast Asia quickly reveals the vast differences between the food profile of the region compared to the United States. The unfamiliar sights...

Knit N Crochet Club: Crocheting for the Community

Knit N Crochet Club: Crocheting for the Community

Siri Uppuluri and suppuluri March 29, 2019

For the past five years, the Knit N Crochet Club has not only brought together hobbyists at the university, but has facilitated continued service to the Newark community by NJIT students.  Since...

The Lone Star State's Energy Independence

The Lone Star State’s Energy Independence

Siri Uppuluri February 7, 2019

A brown lump of lignite coal is dug up from an exposed open pit, placed on a conveyor belt in a power plant, and sent to contribute toward the generation of electricity for households across the state....

U.S. Army Spc. Juan Hernandez, Jr., McDonald Army Medical Center U.S. Army Medical Activity medical laboratory technician, draws a blood sample from a patient at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., June 26, 2017. The JBLE lab technicians perform over a million tests annually and study the hematology, coagulation, chemistry and microbiology of the samples. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Teresa J. Cleveland)

Link Found Between Negative Mood and Inflammatory Biomarkers

Siri Uppuluri January 31, 2019

The start of a new semester is associated with a variety of emotions: excitement at getting to be back on campus and catching up with friends, frustration at having to manage last-minute schedule changes,...

Book Review: "American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang

Book Review: “American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang

Siri Uppuluri January 31, 2019

“It’s easy to become anything you wish...so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul.” In Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel, American Born Chinese, Jin Wang receives this sagely advice from...

Australia Shows Promise for Preventative HIV/AIDS Treatments

Siri Uppuluri November 1, 2018

According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), an estimated 5,000 new cases of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) occur every day across the globe. Finding feasible healthcare...

From Manufacturing Center to Tech Hub: A History of Newark

Siri Uppuluri October 15, 2018

The Amazon VOICE summit held at NJIT over the summer was not only a landmark occasion for the institution, but also for the city of Newark as a whole. The summit is a manifestation of recent efforts to...

Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence: AI in Clinical Trials

Siri Uppuluri September 27, 2018

On average, the medicinal drugs completing their fourth and final phase of clinical research studies this year first entered the clinical trial process the same year the global recession was catalyzed...

NJIT Printing Policy Changes

Siri Uppuluri April 24, 2018

Nearly 3.3 billion pages are printed per year by the three printers located in NJIT’s Van Houten Library, one of five public areas where students can print on campus. The other locations are the Littman...

Preventative Health: Norovirus

Preventative Health: Norovirus

Siri Uppuluri February 20, 2018

What do you and the athletes competing at the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea have in common? Both of you are vulnerable to falling ill by infection from the norovirus. As of writing of...

Book Review: Things Fall Apart

Book Review: Things Fall Apart

Siri Uppuluri February 6, 2018

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… -W.B. Yeats Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel,...

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