Dental school Dean Cecile A. Feldman is leading a study to determine whether a combination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen can be used as an effective alternative to opioids. Find out why Feldman says dental schools are the ideal setting for this research and learn more about the study she is overseeing with four other universities across the country.
Becoming an astronaut is challenging for anyone, but for School of Engineering senior Marissa Navarro, that dream was complicated by an eight-year fight to stay in the United States.Today, however, the Mexican immigrant is one step closer to her goal of reaching space. Read her story.
Hébert Peck, assistant director of broadcast operations at RU-tv, has racked up quite a few prestigious accolades and awards for the James Baldwin documentary he helped produce, including the equivalent of the French and British Academy Awards. Now he can add an Emmy to that list.
Scientists have developed a computer-based method that may help improve understanding and treatment of Crohn’s disease, which causes inflammation of the digestive tract.
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life is bringing together four leading historians to examine Paul Robeson’s relationship with the Jewish community, socialist movements, and the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Read our Q&A to learn more about an Oct. 6 event dedicated to a rarely explored time in Robeson's life.
Emily S. Barrett and Adana A.M Llanos, researchers in the Rutgers School of Public Health, have teamed up to find out how chemicals in products used every day – from soap and shampoo to perfume and body lotions – may adversely affect our health. Read about their work.
Debórah Dwork, a visiting scholar at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, sees unmistakable parallels between Jews of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and refugees seeking asylum on American soil today. Read about a special class she is teaching for public school teachers to provide historcial insight they can take back to the classroom.
Did you know that the male-dominated genre of science fiction was actually invented by a women? Read about a new book of essasys edited by Rutgers-Camden librarians Julie Still and Zara Wilkinson that takes a new look at the role of the heroine and gender in a world that has been long viewed as a male domain.
Hey, physicists and materials scientists: You’d better reevaluate your work if you study iridium- based materials – members of the platinum family – when they are ultra-thin. Iridium “loses its identity” and its electrons act oddly in an ultra-thin film when interfaced with nickel-based layers, which have an unexpectedly strong impact on iridium ions, according to Rutgers University–New Brunswick physicist Jak Chakhalian, senior author of a Rutgers-led study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In honor of The Boss’s birthday today, read about a class at Rutgers that examines the cultural meaning and significance of the American icon whose work spans five decades in this Q&A with Louis Masur, Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History.
A ground-breaking state supreme court chief justice and leaders in health care technology and banking will be inducted as the newest members of the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni this fall. Learn more about them.
Although the Rutgers graduate was a cinematic pioneer, his career on celluloid was stymied by roles that failed to match his considerable talents and his idea of how African Americans should be depicted on screen. Read the latest in our series celebrating the 100th anniversary of Robeson's graduation from Rutgers.