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The Vector

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The Vector

Math Department: Crossed the Line?

Math Department: Crossed the Line?

Yukthi Sangoi February 3, 2021

This past fall semester, testing restrictions and guidelines amped up disproportionately for courses in the math department. Professor and department chair of NJIT’s math department Eliza Michalopoulou explained...

NJIT Moves to Allow Pass-Fail Decisions for the Fall Semester

NJIT Moves to Allow Pass-Fail Decisions for the Fall Semester

Karim Gueye and kgueye December 9, 2020

[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width="1/1"][cmsmasters_text] “The stress is higher than it’s ever been as students continue to adjust to an online environment.” Aryan Path, a senior mechanical...

Honors College Continues Freshman Sustainability Projects Online

Honors College Continues Freshman Sustainability Projects Online

Ethan OMalley and eomalley December 2, 2020

A large part of the socially-conscious mission of the Albert Dorman Honors College involves the sustainability projects that it has its freshmen perform as part of their Freshman Seminar class. A...

ACM's 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...

Tea with Alumni

Tea with Alumni

Nicolas Arango and narango November 18, 2020

Three and a half years ago director of the Littman Architecture Library Maya Gervits, was talking with a student when an idea struck. The student had expressed how she wanted...

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...

Our Not-So-Dry Neighbor

Our Not-So-Dry Neighbor

Sabastian Fernandes and sfernandes November 11, 2020

On the July 20, in 1969, Neil Armstrong made history for the human race. In one small step, he became the first man to physically cross the threshold between Earth and the cosmos,...

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...

NJIT Makerspace's 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...

How to Navigate NJIT Meeting Resources

How to Navigate NJIT Meeting Resources

Aaron Kellett September 17, 2020

September 8 has passed and with it a full and fuss-free chance to “drop” a class. If you’ve found yourself in a Zoom call where the professor doesn’t know how to share their...

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