Civil rights leaders and prominent lawmakers from around the country came to Rutgers for the second annual Summit for Civil Rights to develop a renewed national agenda to defeat segregation, promote racial justice and provide economic equality. Read more about the two-day event, sponsored by the School of Management and Labor Relations, which drew noted activists including House Majority Whip James Clyburn.
Throughout much of Lauryn Adams’s life, people tried to convince her that she would never become a doctor. This spring, as a graduate of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, she will prove them wrong. Find out how she worked along the way to encourage other young women of color to pursue their dreams of a career in medicine in the latest in our series on the latest in our series profiling members of the Class of 2019.
John Barnosky became an advocate for expanding programs for patients with special needs like the one at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine after a delay in finding care for his son, who is on the autism spectrum. Read about what can be done to make a difference to address inadequate care, which can have dire consequences.
Children with depression admitted to the hospital for other illnesses like pneumonia, appendicitis or seizure disorders stay longer, pay more and are at greater risk of death, a Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study finds.
As a fine arts student at Rutgers-Newark, Vaughn Spann would collect discarded umbrellas, fabrics, and rope from thrift shops near campus, assembling the objects onto supersized canvasses. Five years later, Spann is still experimenting with materials, adding terrycloth, paper, and twine to his massive abstract paintings. But now collectors are snapping up his work, and critical acclaim of his art has appeared everywhere from The New York Times to Bloomberg. Find out how his connection to Newark continues to shape his career.
Stanley Silvers Bergen Jr., the founding president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which became the largest freestanding health sciences university in the country, aided in the economic recovery of Newark and boosted medical access throughout the state, died on April 24 at his home in Stonington, Maine. Read about the life of the man behind what is now Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Jai Patel, a criminal justice major at Rutgers-New Brunswick, helped organize a local March for our Lives in Jersey City, and now has plans to start a Rutgers chapter of Students Demand Action in fall 2019. Find out what he has to say about preventing gun violence in New Jersey.
Deaths from opioid overdoses are increasing in New Jersey especially in low-income neighborhood where the opioid reversal drug naloxone is expensive and difficult to obtain, according to Lewis Nelson, chair of the emergency medicine department at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Read about a new Rutgers study that found that life-saving drugs are more availble for people living in wealtheir towns, not poorer communities.
Read about a study led William Kostis, an associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Cardiovascular Institute, that found heart attack patients treated at hospitals with low care scores are at greater risk for another heart attack, or even death due to cardiovascular causes.
Did you join the crowd at Rutgers Day? Check out highlights from Saturday's event that drew about 94,000 people to New Brunswick, Newark and Camden for more than 600 free performances, demonstrations and interactive activities to celebrate all things Rutgers. Hope to see you again next year!
Major criminal justice reforms such as removing mandatory fines, providing relief for poor defendants and assessing the ability to pay would go far in correcting a criminal justice system that punishes low-income people, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds.
