Todd Wolfson, an associate professor at Rutgers School of Communication and Information, is spearheading a joint project with the University of Pennsylvania to tackle the challenges and opportunities for communication in the digital age. Find out how the new Media, Inequality and Change Center that Wolfson co-directs is seeking to protect worker's rights in the platform economy and train public advocates to have a voice in an evolving media landscape.
The Board of Governors voted to award Gov. Phil Murphy and honorary degree; announced Rutgers-Camden’s commencement speakers and honored NCAA wrestling champions Anthony Ashnault and Nick Suriano.
Each year 27 million patients visit a dentist but not a physician, according to Cecile A. Feldman, Dean of Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. Read about a new early detection program that aims to screen up to 500 patients and train predoctoral students to identify at-risk patients, an initiative Feldman hopes will become a routine aspect of care at the school.
Rutgers Day, the university’s annual welcome and show-and-tell for all ages, will take place Saturday, April 27, rain or shine. The event – which includes programming in Camden, New Brunswick and Newark – offers more than 600 free demonstrations, interactive activities, and student performances, cultural dances, live music and much more. Plan your day.
Shane Ballard, who teaches the art of digital costume design at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, is working with Paul Tazewell, the Tony Award-winning costume designer for Hamilton on Steven Spielberg’s upcoming West Side Story remake. Read our Q&A to find out how designing action figures for Marvel shapes his work in Hollywood.
When Alumnus Ben Trotter signed a donor card 20 years ago as an undergraduate at Rutgers, he never thought that he'd get a call decades later asking him to be a bone marrow donor for a young boy with sickle cell anemia. Read what the donation meant to Trotter and how it saved the life of 12-year-old Braylen Mejia whose mother died from the deadly disease.
Nurse staffing has been shown to have a direct impact on patient outcomes while insufficient nurse staffing can affect a patient’s length of stay in the hospital. Find out how a New Jersey law requiring hospitals and nursing homes to publicly report the number of patients per nurse is making a difference in staffing ratios, according to a study by lead researcher Pamela de Cordova, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Nursing.
A mobile counseling app developed by Rutgers School of Nursing assistant professor Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger is bridging the gap between the LGBTQ community and HIV prevention and education through a counseling chat feature. Find out how the launch of the app – where HIV infections are on the rise among gay and bisexual men – has improved HIV awareness and decreased alcohol use, anxiety and depression among its users.
Study will help rescuers identify and help children who are the victims of sex trafficking.
When she is not at work for Rutgers Institutional Planning and Operations, Ghislaine Darden is reviving fashion from centuries past on her sewing machine. Watch our video to find out why she compares each stitch in the historical dresses she creates to notes coming together in a symphony and read the story to learn what inspired her unusual hobby.
Few young gay and bisexual men get the vaccination, which is effective at preventing HPV-related cancers
James F. Dougherty has been elected to a one-year term as chair, and Ronald J. Garutti and Jose A. Piazza were selected to serve as co-vice chairs. Current trustees chair Mary DiMartino will join the Board of Governors.