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Club Spotlight: NJIT HOSA

Mrunmayi Joshi, Managing Editor • April 7, 2023

(Photo from NJIT HOSA) Reviving an organization is no easy feat, but the 2022-23 executive board of NJIT HOSA pulled it off. The club is a collegiate chapter of the international organization HOSA...

COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Has an Official End Date

Mrunmayi Joshi, Managing Editor • March 23, 2023

On May 11, the public health emergency declared by the White House in January 2020 will expire after over three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In February, the Biden administration announced that the...

Dear Highlander, It’s been an entire semester of college, and I still haven’t found my people.

Areej Qamar, Executive Editor • December 30, 2022

Dear Highlander, It's been an entire semester of college, and I still haven't found my people. Honestly, I think I just don’t know how to make friends at NJIT — it’s very different from...

NJIT Celebrates Sexual Health Awareness Week

Yukthi Sangoi, Editor-in-Chief • October 6, 2022

September marked Sexual Health Awareness Month, and one newly founded NJIT organization is working towards increasing understanding of this topic throughout campus: Advocates for Sexual Health Awareness....

How to Get Your Flu Shot This Year

Samira Santana • November 19, 2021

NJIT offers its students a vaccination center for the flu vaccine annually. This year, the vaccines are being administered in the Campus Pharmacy; it is located on Central Avenue, across from...

My Experience with Weight Loss

Anthony McInnis • March 10, 2021

Losing weight can be a challenging experience for many. From the stresses of life to not knowing how to prepare meals, there’s always so many factors that can interfere with one’s mission to become...

C-CAPS Director Talks Mental Health

Yukthi Sangoi and ysangoi • December 9, 2020

The pandemic has unfortunately added new stresses to everyone’s lives. There can only be a limited amount of face-to-face interaction between people, and as a result, many have become unemployed. Staying...

Marijuana Myth Up in Smoke

Guest and guest • May 6, 2019

By Contributing Writer Zane Nogueras Can marijuana keep you from putting on pounds? That is exactly the question Michigan State University researchers sought to answer through an assessment...

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...

Reassurance for NJIT Health Insurance

Nicole Cheney • December 7, 2018

“For less than a handful of appointments per year, the plan basically pays for itself.” The summer before my freshman year of college, I was too lazy to complete my health records paperwork and ended...

The $289 Million Monsanto Case

Katherine Ji • November 7, 2018

Monsanto found liable of causing a school groundskeeper's cancer On August 10, 2018, a San Francisco jury awarded Dewayne Johnson, a former school groundskeeper, $289 million on account of Monsanto’s...

Antibiotic Resistance – It’s Going to Bug You

Nicole Cheney • September 27, 2018

You’ve come down with a case of gonorrhea. That’s unfortunate, but there are almost half a dozen antibiotics on the market designed to treat Neisseria gonnorrhoeae: penicillin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin,...