The rising popularity of smoking tobacco with hookahs – water pipes heated by burning charcoal – creates significant health and safety concerns, according to the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Here is some advice on how to stay safe.
The warmer the Arctic is in winter, the colder and snowier the winter is in the northeastern United States.
Didik Prasetyo has dedicated himself to understanding and protecting the endangered great apes. A doctoral student in the School of Graduate Studies, he coauthored a recent study in Current Biology – on the estimated loss of more than 100,000 Bornean orangutans between 1999 and 2015. “To prevent further decline and continued local extinctions of orangutans, humanity must act now,” the study states.
A peer review team is coming to Rutgers for a four-day visit starting March 19. The nine-member team will meet with board members, faculty, students and administrators across the university at all locations. Members of the team – comprised of volunteers from large research universities across the country and led by Eric J. Barron, president of Pennsylvania State University – will also hold informal conversations with members of the Rutgers community during their visit.
Whether they study rocket science, brain surgery or the meaning of life, scholars traditionally have spoken more to each other than to the general public. But in recent years, many academics have come to appreciate the value of communicating their work more widely. An initiative by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University-New Brunswick is training scholars to communicate with general audiences.
Black women are significantly underrepresented in state and national elective offices. Still, black women have made some gains in recent years and represent a key element in any elective strategy for 2018, according to a report by the Center for American Women and Politics, which honors Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968.
The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health has been awarded a $3 million, three-year grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative, a partnership between IFNH and the Child Health Institute of New Jersey that will focus on improving the health of New Jersey children.
If you think your nose looks big in all those selfies, you might be right. But you shouldn’t let it influence your self-image. Researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Stanford University developed a new mathematical model to explain how smartphones act as “portable funhouse mirrors,” making your nose appear wider than it is. Read our release and the story on CNN.
A new exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum focuses on early 20th-century artists, who promoted a romantic and idealized Mexico during an era of radical change. To celebrate the show at Rutgers-New Brunswick, the university community and the public are invited to Art After Hours, an evening of free programs March 6.
Palliative care expert Judy Barberio gives patients and their families strategies on how to ease the transition to end-of-life care.
Shaheena Shahid has tutored orphans in Peru, India and Jordan, taught English to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and instructed young Moroccan girls on self-defense techniques. Meet the Graduate School of Education student who is committed to elevating human rights for underserved communities around the world.
Bioblitz, a citizen science project, is aimed at getting people to learn more about life around them, to collect species data for scientists and to promote conservation in an era of rampant habitat destruction. Anyone with a connection to Rutgers can participate. Just download the app!