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We write Stevens history HOBOKEN, NJ | NOVEMBER 7, 2025
VOLUME CXXIII No. 09
NEW STUTE EVERY FRIDAY • EST. 1904
Minor Fair 2025
Library reduces hours and services following university budget cuts
BY ATREYEE HALDER, SCIENCE EDITOR Are you a computer scientist who is secretly an artist? A biomedical engineer with a love for economics? Maybe an accountant with an interest in physics? A mix, or perhaps a completely different combination? The Minor Fair held on October 30 by the Office of Undergraduate Academics bustled with students who answered yes to those questions. Inside the Bissinger Room (Howe Floor 4), academic representatives exhibited minors from the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the School of Business, and the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science. You may ask, what are minors, and why are students at the Minor Fair interested in learning more about them? A minor represents a coherent program of study in a discipline other than your major degree program. To complete a minor, you would need to take fewer courses than in a major. Students usually take minors to explore their passions and gain valuable skills in an additional field of study without having to go through the time commitment and courseload of a major. If this idea speaks
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Stevens’ third annual celebration of National First-Generation Week BYJOSEPHINE CHOONG, SECRETARY Each year, from November 3 to 7, is National First-Generation Week. Its purpose is to celebrate first-generation college students’ achievements and bring awareness to the challenges that they face. This is Stevens’ third year honoring National First-Generation Week. It is filled with plenty of events to foster community and forge bonds
Professor Ying Wang receives $360K U.S. ARO Early Career Award BY CLAIRE DEANS, OPINION COLUMNIST In June 2025, Stevens Professor Ying Wang from the Department of Systems Engineering received the prestigious Army Research Office (ARO) Early Career Award for her project titled “From Proactive to Autonomous: Dynamic Assurance in CPS via Formal-Fuzz Interactions and Posterior Formal Verification.” Her research advances the assurance and resilience of critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and as these systems grow more complex and interconnected, “it is essential to develop frameworks capable of providing adaptive and continuous assurance,” said Professor Wang. Through the ARO Early Career Award with $359,951 of research funding, Professor Wang will continue expanding her research to deepen the theoretical foundation of dynamic assurance.” Her work is aimed at protecting these systems from some of the most unexpected conditions. Her approach involves the use of mathematical proofs and smart testing to create more reliable systems instead of the more traditional verifiNEWS (2-3)
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cation methods and testing. Some of the tools she uses include formal verification, intelligent fuzz testing, and causality modeling. Formal verification works to ensure a system is built properly through formidable mathematics, intelligent fuzz creates randomized and unexpected circumstances for the system to learn from, and causality modeling predicts the likelihood of certain situations so that systems can best evaluate the most secure decisions for their sustainability. These tools work in a cycle to constantly and consistently improve system resilience. Professor Ying Wang shared that she feels deeply honored to receive the award and expressed her sincere appreciation to the Army Research Office for both the recognition and their continued support. She also expresses her gratitude for her students and collaborators for all of their hard work and dedication. Looking ahead, Professor Wang plans to further involve her students by building a research platform that enables graduate and undergraduate students to experiment with
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between students and faculty. Emilia Griffith, Coordinator of Student Culture and Belonging, stated that the First Generation and Limited Income (FLI) Network worked hard to make this year’s celebration as impactful as the previous years. The FLI Network consisted of eight staff members: Dr. Takeem Dean, Dr. Eve Riskin, Liliana Delman, Maryam Tobias, Dean Deborah Berkley, Alida McKee, Jane Winthrop, and Emilia
Griffith. With feedback from last year and conversations with students, it was found that many first-generation students were seeking more opportunities for connections and community. So, a variety of informal and formal events were added to the FLI program calendar so students can comfortably engage and discover a sense of community. Griffith explained that their main objective for both the week and the network as a whole was to move beyond celebration
and focus on empowerment and sustainable actions. On Monday, November 3, the week began with a kickoff consisting of a carnival and resource fair. Students were able to explore a variety of resources from the different departments, including the Career Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Student Health Services, and Student Employment. The Society of Asian Scien-
The Samuel C. Williams Library has officially reduced its operating hours and the Office of Undergraduate Academics (OUA) has paused drop-in tutoring services outside of finals week following university-wide budget cuts. The change, which went into effect on October 10, 2025, was announced in a campus-wide email and was received with discussion concerning operational financial impacts across the Stevens community. For many, the library’s amended hours represent one of the most tangible impacts of the recent financial adjustments on student life. Library Director Linda Beninghove explained that “due to the recent required budget reductions across the university, the library has been called upon to signifi-
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LOCAL NEWS NY3: Secaucus’ new AI data center BY TASHA KHOSLA, HEAD COPYEDITOR The rise of AI has been undeniable. Platforms, from social media apps to search engines, have been incorporating AI, subsequently creating the need for data centers. According to IBM, an AI data center is a “facility that houses the specific IT infrastructure needed to train, deploy and deliver AI applications and services. It has advanced compute, network and storage architectures and energy and cooling capabilities
to handle AI workloads.” These AI data centers have been implemented across the country, with Secaucus, NJ, being one of the latest locations. CoreSite, a digital infrastructure company that operates data centers, announced the completion of its newest facility, named NY3, intended to serve the New York metropolitan area. This data center “offers direct cloud connection to AWS and delivers a diverse ecosystem where enterprises, such as global financial services, higher education institu-
tions as well as domestic and international carriers, securely and cost effectively conduct business.” In addition, NY3 has “advanced liquid cooling capabilities to provide enhanced thermal efficiency needed to support high-performance computing and AI-driven workloads,” aligning with industry trends the CoreSite noted in its 2025 State of the Data Center Report. This report also highlighted cloud interconnection as the number one reason for organizations to colocate their AI workloads, un-
derscoring the demand for data centers. Still, data centers are controversial due to their environmental impacts — mainly their water consumption. The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) noted, “Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day, equivalent to the water use of a town populated by 10,000 to 50,000 people.” Furthermore, EESI explains that data centers source their
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NATIONAL NEWS A mapping of legal battles over ICE deployments in U.S. cities BY SERENA PANUCCI NEWS EDITOR In the years since the Trump administration first launched bold interior-immigration enforcement operations, cities across the U.S. have staged a sustained legal pushback against the federal government’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and related feder-
al forces. What began as a strategy of coercing local cooperation has evolved into layered litigation, civic resistance, and a simmering appeal cycle whose next act remains unsettled. The chain reaction of national legal bouts began on January 25, 2017, when President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 13768, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of
the United States,” which sought to withhold federal funds from so-called “sanctuary jurisdictions”— cities or states that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities—and gave ICE broad new enforcement priorities. Cities and states filed suit immediately. In November of 2017, a federal court declared the funding threat unconstitutional and issued a nationwide injunc-
tion. Over the next several years, federal appellate courts in the Third, Seventh, First, and Ninth Circuits repeatedly ruled against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to condition Byrne JAG grants on local immigration enforcement cooperation. Both the Byrne JAG and Executive Order 13768 cases ultimately end-
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