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The Award Winning News Publication of Mercy College

The Impact

The Award Winning News Publication of Mercy College

The Impact

Mercys Psych Program Conducts Research on Sleep Deprivation

Mercy’s Psych Program Conducts Research on Sleep Deprivation

Cam'ron Mundy, Impact Staff Writer May 5, 2024

The administrative assistant for the School of Social and Behavioral Studies, Rachel Pierinelli, has conducted research with the graduate psychology program to research Mercy students in the medical field...

FAFSA Fiasco: Students Left in Limbo as Form Delay Sparks Anxiety

FAFSA Fiasco: Students Left in Limbo as Form Delay Sparks Anxiety

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor May 2, 2024

Every academic year, students fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) in hopes of being able to pay for higher education with ease. Students and their parents pull out their tax...

Mavericks Have Success On the Field and Classroom

Mavericks Have Success On the Field and Classroom

Cam'ron Mundy, Impact Staff Writer April 30, 2024

Mercy University athletes have made a name for themselves not just on the athletic field, but in the classroom. Unsurprisingly, these athletes work hard on the field, but it becomes impressive that...

Beyond Siri: Unveiling Apples AI Vision

Beyond Siri: Unveiling Apple’s AI Vision

Joshua Ochoa Diaz, Multimedia Editor April 26, 2024

Small language models have been running the AI world rampant over the last few years and Apple has unveiled theirs to the public. Apple recently introduced a series of smaller sources available in AI language...

Unveiling the AI Pin: Balancing Promise and Peril in a Wearable AI Era

Unveiling the AI Pin: Balancing Promise and Peril in a Wearable AI Era

Joshua Ochoa Diaz, Multimedia Editor April 25, 2024

Storms of technological innovation increasingly drive the world, and the creators of the Ai Pin, Humane were on track to be a part of that rapidly evolving force of change. However, upon its reveal, excitement...

Bidens Latest Effort to Tackle Student Debt

Biden’s Latest Effort to Tackle Student Debt

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor April 25, 2024

In a move aimed at bringing real relief to millions of Americans drowned by student loan debt, President Joe Biden revealed the details of his latest plan.  This isn't just another policy. It's...

Fast Food Epidemic In College

Fast Food Epidemic In College

Carla Gradiz and Jaime Rivas April 25, 2024

Amidst finals, stress grip is tight, and healthy diets seem impossible. It’s a vicious cycle. Some struggle to eat during stressful times, while others find it hard to stop. Both overeating and undereating...

Did You Feel The Quake?

Did You Feel The Quake?

Jaime Rivas, Impact Staff April 5, 2024

We live in a small world. We realize how small when so many of us could feel a magnitude 4.8 earthquake, one mile from Tewksbury, New Jersey at 10:23  a.m. all the way to the Mercy campuses.  Startling...

Empowering Voices

Empowering Voices

Carla Gradiz, Associate Editor March 20, 2024

Women founded Mercy University, which initially operated as a women's college. Great and empowering women have served Mercy through the years. We also celebrate Women’s History Month as winter fades...

Mercys Blood Drive in the Face of Shortage

Mercy’s Blood Drive in the Face of Shortage

Jamie Rivas, Impact Staff March 2, 2024

A blood shortage was announced by the American Red Cross on Jan. 30, 2024, due to winter weather and illnesses such as flu and COVID-19. Mercy University held one of its major events in the Rotunda for...

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