The Vector

What happens when you test positive for Covid 19 on Campus

Alicia Tedesco and Sebastian Lopez • November 12, 2021

When it comes to data, we always want to be aware of the most recent and accurate information available in order to make good decisions. During the pandemic, data has driven governments and...

Mask Fashion on campus

Alicia Tedesco • September 29, 2021

Face masks have been our steady companions for almost one and a half years now. We wear them when we go grocery store shopping; we wear them when we go to class; we wear them in the lounges of our...

Vaccine Passports in New Jersey

Nicholas Merlino, Alumni • April 20, 2021

As of April 15, roughly 42% of New Jerseyans have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination dose and at least 23% are fully vaccinated. These numbers are increasing daily, and as vaccine distribution becomes...

HighlanderThon: Fundraising Through a Pandemic

Sreya Das, Alumni • April 14, 2021

Starting from March 22, members of the NJIT community came together for Miracle Madness, a week-long philanthropic event organized by HighlanderThon. This student-run organization is part of a larger...

COVID-19: Vaccines, Variants, and Virulence

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief • March 3, 2021

The light at the end of the dark tunnel has been seen for quite some time with vaccines developed and distributed across the world. With the Biden administration’s major leap forward in working with...

The Decline of Celebrity Culture During COVID-19

Isaac Scafe and iscafe • December 2, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyday life in the United States of America. Hundreds of thousands of people have declared unemployment each week with millions of Americans still waiting to receive...

NJIT Collaborates on Recycled Mobile Medical Care Unit

Parth Agrawal and pagrawal • November 25, 2020

Every week, a selection of NJIT students receive an email from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness. “In keeping with our commitment to the health and safety of the NJIT community, you have been...

NJIT’s Road to Online Learning

Karim Gueye and kgueye • November 25, 2020

Online schooling is not new, but it is the new normal. Converged and synchronous online lectures accompanying COVID-19 shutdowns have proven to be a learning experience for both students and...

How Newark Businesses Are Affected by Covid

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief • October 5, 2020

It’s no secret that businesses all around the world have been adversely affected by the global pandemic. Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, has been no exception to the issues businesses have faced...

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

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...

Digital Discourse in a Time of COVID-19

Sreya Das and sdas • September 24, 2020

As many jobs have gone remote and classrooms have gone online due to COVID-19, student organizations are also learning to go virtual. The social distancing regulations of the pandemic have impacted clubs...