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NJIT Professor Explains the Impacts of COVID-19 by Publishing Five Books

NJIT Professor Explains the Impacts of COVID-19 by Publishing Five Books

Yukthi Sangoi March 4, 2022

Exactly one year ago, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain was lying in an ICU bed connected to a ventilator. The NJIT adjunct professor was infected with COVID-19, and his body needed to increase its 54% oxygen...

Online Learning: Not “Goodbye,” But “See You Later”

Evan Markowitz, Guest Contributor April 14, 2021

Let's face it: if you're reading this, you have probably been affected in one way or another by the phenomenon we've come to know as "online learning." Whether in the form of "synchronous online," "asynchronous online"...

Questions Answered about Returning to Campus in Fall 2021

Questions Answered about Returning to Campus in Fall 2021

Katherine Ji and Sreya Das April 14, 2021

On March 8, almost a full year after NJIT’s unexpected move to online learning following the COVID-19 pandemic, President Joel Bloom sent an email to the community announcing that the university...

Reflecting One Year After Pandemic

Reflecting One Year After Pandemic

Yukthi Sangoi March 24, 2021

https://wpengine.com/support/ It has been just over a year since Governor Phil Murphy declared the statewide stay-at-home order for New Jersey. Schools and universities went all virtual, businesses...

Professor Boufadel’s Work On Mitigating Spread of COVID-19 Through Supermarkets

Ethan OMalley, Alumni February 23, 2021

In a new paper, NJIT professor Dr. Michel Boufadel and his colleagues studied the propagation of COVID-19 particles through the airways in a supermarket setting, focusing on how...

NJIT Students Join Volunteer Forces for Vaccine Distribution

NJIT Students Join Volunteer Forces for Vaccine Distribution

Alexandra Griffith February 17, 2021

Towards the end of December, just one block away from NJIT, Essex County College, one of five Essex County COVID-19 vaccination sites, was vaccinating approximately 150 health care workers and first...

A Light-hearted Plea to Continue Wearing Masks Post-Pandemic

A Light-hearted Plea to Continue Wearing Masks Post-Pandemic

Isaac Scafe February 10, 2021

*This piece is written satirically.  If this pandemic has done one thing right, it has been bringing the habit of wearing face masks into style. I’ve found no greater joy than slipping...

Emotionally Nondistant Resident Assistants during COVID-19

Emotionally Nondistant Resident Assistants during COVID-19

Karim Gueye February 10, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to develop, so too have the residential building policies we put in place to curb its spread. NJIT’s Reslife has...

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...

The Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic: Facilities Services

The Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic: Facilities Services

Yukthi Sangoi January 26, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic, policies in schools and other institutions have dramatically changed in order to stop or slow down the spread. Social distancing, wearing masks and washing...

Our 2021 Predictions

Our 2021 Predictions

Katherine Ji and kji January 26, 2021

By Vector Editorial Board  Between threatening foreign relations, wildfires, a devastating pandemic and perhaps one of the most intense presidential elections in our lifetime this past year, you...

How NJIT Students Are Spending Their Holidays

How NJIT Students Are Spending Their Holidays

Samira Santana December 9, 2020

The end of 2020 is fast approaching with COVID-19 here to stay for the near future. Along with family traditions, workplaces and organizations all around the country are holding virtual holiday...

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