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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.
Residents of two Trenton ZIP codes can expect to live to about 74 years old on average, but in neighboring communities life expectancies can be more than a decade longer. A new study by the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research will explore what drives the differences in the striking health disparities found in New Jersey.
“She was a fierce black woman - and certainly one of the bravest women that ever lived ... She reminds us of the importance of the strength of leadership in the darkest of times," says Rutgers-New Brunswick scholar Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman. Read the story and review on NJ.com for more on Dunbar's new book.
Students and faculty reviewed, annotated, and transcribed scans from the personal papers of noted suffragists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Church Terrell, and Carrie Chapman Catt during an event at the Alexander Library in honor of the 204th birthday of Stanton, credited as the movement's founder.