Learn about a new humanities concentration that will be part of the NJ-STEP program, based at Rutgers-Newark, that aims to help inmates and formerly incarcerated gain a better understanding of the world around them. The program, funded through a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will focus on the study of human culture.
Every day, Rutgers experts appear in global, national and regional news outlets, lending their voices to current and critical topics ranging from climate change, economic trends, agriculture and politics to the opioid abuse epidemic and other health-related issues. Take a look at some of the many Rutgers faculty who emerged as the most cited for their expertise in various media during the last academic year.
Move over microbreweries. Megan Muehlbauer, a Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station agent, believes she has stumbled upon the next big food trend and wants to help put New Jersey on the map. Read our release and the story in Food and Wine to find out how she is laying the groundwork to revive the state’s hard cider industry that dates back to colonial times and prospered before prohibition.
Read our Q&A to learn what Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom has to say about challenges facing the health care system in the U.S. and what they mean for health care in New Jersey in advance of a symposium Tuesday on the issue hosted by Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health.
Nancy DiTomaso has spent her career studying the ways in which race, gender, and culture create or deny job and career opportunities. Her 2013 book, The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism, examines the ways in which inequality is reproduced – not through discrimination against minorities but through advantages afforded whites. Learn more about DiTomaso, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick.
Older adults who have 10 to 19 teeth are at higher risk for malnutrition.
The new initiative will focus the university’s expertise in public health, criminal justice and other fields on a nationwide problem. The center, highlighted during a lecture with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will conduct multidisciplinary research on the causes, consequences and solutions to firearm-related violence.
Student food pantries across Rutgers help fill the gaps for groceries while removing the stigma around food insecurity. Learn why food pantries are important to help students facing challenging times succeed academically and how to help support them at Rutgers.
Thanks to an innovative mosquito control approach developed at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, residents in several Maryland neighborhoods reduced populations of invasive Asian tiger mosquitoes by an impressive 76 percent, on average.
For diabetics, managing high blood pressure may help to prevent life-threatening organ damage according to a Rutgers study. The study findings suggests that extremely high blood pressure, not just diabetes, is responsible for severe organ damage due to hypertensive emergencies in African-Americans with diabetes.
Natasha Hemmings, the new chief executive officer for the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey, is working to bring scouting to parts of the state where the organization has not traditionally had a strong presence – in cities such as Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, and Irvington. Find out how her degree from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark helped shape her career.