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Payload Specialist Astronaut Robert J. Cenker, a Rutgers-New Brunswick electrical engineering alumnus, was a crew member on the 1986 space shuttle Columbia, where he changed the face of cable TV across the United States. The mission was the final flight before the Challenger disaster, which killed seven crewmembers, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, who trained with him. As a result, Cenker's Columbia mission was called "the end of innocence" for the Shuttle program. On July 19, Cenker will join students from the New Jersey from New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology, TARGET and EOF, to discuss his journey into space and offer a glimpse of what it takes to become an astronaut.

With NASA planning to revisit the lunar surface by 2024 and send multiple expeditions by 2028, Rutgers University’s Haym Benaroya is optimistic that people will someday live on the moon. Benaroya, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has spent most of his career focusing on lunar settlement and space exploration issues.

 

It used to be too much candy, but in the age of high tech electronics grandparents are spoiling grandkids in a different way: allowing too much screen time when it’s their turn to babysit. Read about the findings of a study coauthored by Dafna Lemish in School of Communication and Information at Rutgers-New Brunswick in this story and coverage in the New York Post.

The renowned autism experts will lead new centers in the Rutgers Brain Health Institute that will focus on diagnosing, treating and supporting children and adults with autism spectrum disorder and pediatric feeding disorders. Learn more.

Joo Hun Han, an assistant professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations, is one of 28 research fellows appointed by the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, the largest class in the 11-year history of the fellowship program that tapped eminent scholars from the United States and Europe. Learn about his work.

How did metabolism, the process by which life powers itself by converting energy from food into movement and growth, begin? A Rutgers-led study sheds light on one of the most enduring mysteries of science.

The best way to protect corals threatened by climate change is to conserve a wide range of their habitats, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. The finding likely applies to conservation efforts for many other species in the ocean and on land, including trees and birds.

                 

Rutgers Board of Trustees launched a new fundraising effort in response to findings by a task force that a growing number of students are unable to complete their degrees because of limited resources, while others graduate but leave college saddled with significant debt. Learn more in this story and watch the video featuring Rutgers-Camden student Sam Adepoju.

Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money. 

Imagine if your printer had an “unprint” button that used pulses of light to remove toner, curbing environmental impacts compared with conventional paper recycling. A Rutgers-led team has created a new way to unprint paper that, unlike laser-based methods, can work with the standard, coated paper used in home and office printers. The new method uses pulses of light from a xenon lamp, and can erase black, blue, red and green toners without damaging the paper, according to the study in the Journal of Cleaner Production.  

Spurred by a pressing need for comprehensive mental health services for New Jersey’s young people, Rutgers alumna Marlene Brandt has committed $30 million to the university to launch an initiative that will provide comprehensive mental health care and support to young people – including youth in underserved and underrepresented communities – who have behavioral health disorders.