When you have been baking for Rutgers Dining Services the last 42 years, it can be pretty hard to get cake off of your mind. Celebrate National Bakery Day today with our latest Scarlet Stories video and see how Jane Doolittle creates beautiful cakes for students. Read more about her in this story from the Rutgers Today archive.
The Student Success Coach Office at Rutgers-Camden provides individualized, one-on-one academic coaching services to help students set goals, create plans, and navigate the transition to college life. Read the story and watch the video to learn more about the office that helps students stay connected and excel in college.
Naomi Klein, a public intellectual whose best-selling explorations of social, economic and ecological injustice have made her a global thought leader, has been selected as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Examining the drool of a bear might not seem like the best way to determine if it inhibits harmful bacteria, which is a common cause of serious skin rashes and respiratory diseases, including pneumonia. But that's exactly what a team of Rutgers-New Brunswick and other scientists did with an East Siberian brown bear. The study, coauthored by Konstantin Severinov, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Nagla Bedir, a Graduate School of Education alumna and teacher at Perth Amboy High School, knows the hijab she wears sometimes plays a role in how people see her. Her experience inspired her, along with fellow GSE alumna Luma Hasan, to launch an organization that shares the experiences of Muslim-Americans in public schools and tackles misconceptions.
Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, professor and vice-chair for research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School brings a background in collaborative basic laboratory science research. She will begin her new role Sept. 15.
School of Communication and Information professor Amy Jordon serves on the board of trustees of Sesame Workshop and is considered to be a leading scholar in the study of media and children. While television, films, the internet and video games can have harmful effects on children and adolescents, Jordon, whose research focuses on health communications, says they can also enhance learning and be a positive experience for children and families.
Learn what drives Debbie Walsh, director for Rutgers' Center for American Woman and Politics in this first in a series profiling Rutgers scholars who have been working for decades – before the #MeToo and Time’sUp movements started making headlines – as ardent advocates through their research, teaching and outreach.
Growing up the daughter of an Afro-Caribbean mother and Jewish father, Fedline Saintina was used to her skin color being the first thing people noticed when she walked into religious events. But at Rutgers Hillel, she learned how diverse and accepting Judaism could be.
Christopher J. Molloy considers Rutgers to be a place of big ideas, boundless energy and unlimited potential. Read our Q&A to learn about his vision for creating more opportunities: for students to grow intellectually and develop career skills, for faculty to conduct innovative research and for the university to expand its role as a powerhouse for innovation and economic growth.