Dana Britton, professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, has dedicated her career to the issues facing working women. Learn about her work promoting employment equity from corporate boardrooms to women's prisons in the last article in our series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement.
A new book by Jeffrey Lane, assistant professor in the School of Communication and Information, is the first to capture neighborhood life as it moves between the streets and social media. Learn more about the inspiration behind The Digital Street, which examines how social media impacts the lives of black teenagers and tackles some of the communication field's most pressing topics: privacy, visibility, surveillance, social support and networks.
Hear from Moshe Zonder, this semester’s Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, about what goes into successful screenwriting, the value for students in hard work and a little confidence and find out how his lessons span 2,500 years in literary history.
Poor home sanitation and residents’ tolerance regarding German cockroaches were a good predictor of the pest’s presence in their apartments, according to a Rutgers study in Paterson and Irvington, New Jersey.
Gulf War veterans with unexplained illnesses can improve their balance with a new device developed by Jorge Serrador, an associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Learn more about a study he led that is the first to examine how Gulf War illnesses affect veterans’ systems integral for balance, memory and brain blood flow.
Sexism is the main cause of inequality and violence against women across the world says Melissa Upreti, senior director of program and global advocacy at the Rutgers Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The human rights lawyer and women’s rights advocate has been at the center of legal battles across the globe fighting to stop violence against women and advocating for their reproductive rights. Read the latest in our series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement.
Does it feel like our electoral system is broken? Rutgers-New Brunswick philosophy Professor Alexander Guerrero has a solution: a “lottocracy” – a new form of government in which adult citizens would be randomly selected to serve as lawmakers. Read our Q&A to find out why he says it’s time to think beyond the limits of our current system.
Leaders from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and RWJBarnabas Health discussed challenges facing health care nationwide and in New Jersey Tuesday at an inaugural Academic Health Symposium. Find out what the panelists, who included RBHS Chancellor Brian Strom, Rutgers President Robert Barchi, and David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, among others, had to say.
Find out how Rutgers and the City of New Brunswick are working together to improve safety and security for students and residents. The partnership includes a shared services agreement for the Rutgers University Police Department to provide 9-1-1 and emergency dispatch services for the city’s police and fire departments and a camera project to deter crime.
Infants born at home have more diverse bacteria in their guts and feces, which may affect their developing immunity and metabolism, according to a study in Scientific Reports.
Learn about the new 4+4 Program offered by Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Honors College and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in collaboration with the Rutgers Global Health Institute, that eliminates the cost and pressure of taking the MCAT, while allowing students to embrace their undergraduate experience.
It can take 17 years or longer before research that can improve mental health is put into practice. Find out how a multi-million dollar federal grant to Rutgers School of Health Professions to fund a regional Mental Health Technology Transfer Center – one of 10 nationwide – can help speed up the process.