Jessica Schellack, a graduate of Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, founded OQ Coffee with her husband in 2012. Now Food and Wine magazine has recognized the Highland Park roastery for serving up the top brew in the state. The couple says their work is not just about brewing delicious and environmentally sustainable coffee but also about building community and promoting social action.
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, Rutgers is rolling out a simple message on campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden: “We R Here.” The goal is to let students know that no matter what campus they are on, support for victims of violence is available. Resources are also available for students, faculty and staff interested in learning how to offer support and be an active bystander.
The Rutgers Board of Governors announced today that Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, has been chosen as the 252nd anniversary commencement speaker for Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Schulman will receive an honorary degree along with health care advocate and former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
Internationally recognized for his scholarly contributions and leadership in communications and public policy, González’s outstanding career in journalism and broadcasting includes 29 years at the New York Daily News where he was a columnist.
The Board of Governors created the Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering to honor the fathers of alumni Gary and Barbara Rodkin as well as the Embrace Kids Foundation Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, awarded the Krieger Klein Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegeneration Research to Luciano D’Adamio, appointed Juan González to the Richard D. Heffner Professorship in Communications and Public Policy and honored outgoing university registrar Kenneth J. Iuso.
A Poison Control Center expert at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School discusses the health implications of legalized recreational marijuana.
Shot over six years, Kimi Takesue’s documentary about her Japanese-American grandfather, 95 and 6 to Go, was nominated for the 2017 European Doc Alliance Award. And this year, Takesue, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers-Newark received a prestigious Breakthrough Filmmaker Award, which includes a $50,000 fellowship, for more than two decades of her work in documentaries.
Out of more than 500,000 alumni living worldwide, about 320 have passed another extraordinary milestone: their 100th birthday. Meet some of our oldest living alumni who share their memories about their time at Rutgers nearly 80 years ago and discover more facts and figures about our alumni.
The U.S. surgeon general recently issued an advisory recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, which can quickly restore normal breathing in someone suspected of overdosing on opioids. Hear from two experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School on what the public should know about the drug and how it can save lives.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and an industry consortium are investing $100 million to build a set of wireless networks for researchers to test ways of boosting Internet speeds to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality and traffic safety. Find out how researchers from Rutgers’ Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) will play a lead role in testing this new wave of mobile technology.