Timothy Nuber, an aerospace engineering senior at Rutgers–New Brunswick's School of Engineering, launched a new group at Rutgers called Space Technology Association of Rutgers (STAR), which brings students to work together to stand out in the highly competitive space industry. This week Nuber is heading to New Mexico to launch a rocket he and the students helped build to try to reach outter space.
A team of students in “The Contemporary American: The Global War on Terrorism,” a course taught by American Studies Professor Angus Kress Gillespie, recently participated in a mock National Security Council session to help them understand what it’s like to make split-second decisions that can either save or costs lives during times of war. Read more about the class that was inspired after 9/11.
Shelia Oliver, who has a long history of public service and leadership in New Jersey, will speak at Douglass Residential College’s 98th Convocation on May 18. ''She is an example of how women leaders can shape policy and make substantive change in our communities,” says Douglass Dean Jacquelyn Litt.
M. Bishr Omary has been appointed as the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research. He also will be the Henry Rutgers Professor of Biomedical Sciences, a professor of medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a core member of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. Learn more about his new role at Rutgers.
Rutgers University is one of 28 founding universities, colleges and research institutions to join with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on an initiative to reduce sexual harassment in higher education. “The point of the action collaborative is for us to tackle this as a group rather than individually,” said Karen Stubaus, vice president for academic affairs.
An estimated 18,825 graduates will receive degrees from Rutgers this year during commencement at its three locations.
Researchers at Rutgers' Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine have identified a siesta-suppressing gene in fruit flies, which sheds light on the biology that helps many creatures, including humans, balance the benefits of a good nap against those of getting important activities done during the day.
A love for studying Italian, the language her grandfather grew up with, and a passion for art history sparked by an AP class in high school helped Joanna Zotti earn a coveted internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection starting in the fall. Read more about Zotti in the latest in our series profiling members of the Class of 2019.
Susan N. Wilson has spent decades working to empower women and provide reliable information about sexual health. Her advocacy in the 1980s resulted in New Jersey requiring nearly 600 public school districts to offer family-life and sex education. Read how her pledge of $1.3 million will be used to train college-age women across the state to become tomorrow's political leaders and to continue her mission of promoting comprehensive sex education.
Programs to prevent HIV in transgender women are helping to lower the rate of new infection but better care and treatment of this vulnerable population is still needed, especially among those of lower income or people of color, according to a study led by Henry Raymond, an associate professor at Rutgers School of Public Health and a core faculty member of Rutgers Global Health Institute.