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When Robert Asaro-Angelo talks about his goals and priorities as the new commissioner of the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the conversation keeps coming back to his deep ties to Rutgers. Whether it’s the lessons he learned in the classrooms at the Eagleton Institute of Politics while working toward his master’s degree or the partnerships he hopes to engage in with the university to develop the state’s workforce his connection to the university continues to shape nearly every aspect of his job.

A new myRutgers dashboard that houses dozens of student services apps, a brand new alumni center at Rutgers-Newark, freshly renovated offices with a computer lab and support space at Rutgers-Camden, and the opening of the Richard M. Weeks Building Hall of Engineering. The university unveils these and more facilities, resources and amenities this fall.

A drafted major leaguer, an aspiring neurosurgeon, and a medical student who wants to make his patients smile are among the 9,300 students who begin their academic journeys at Rutgers. Meet the university's largest class in history.

While the landmark June ruling brought severe consequences for labor unions, find out why a Rutgers experts believes that the ruling will not be the death knoll for the movement and could energize workers to find new ways to organize.

Can immersing yourself in a South American jungle and the high-fiber, unprocessed diet of its villagers make your gut microbes more diverse? And could it have benefits for people with obesity, type 1 diabetes and other disorders?

The millions of people search YouTube videos to learn about options for plastic surgery should beware of marketing campaigns that masquerading as educational materials. Learn about a first of its kind study – led by Boris Paskhover, an assistant professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – that evaluated 240 top-viewed videos with 160 million combined view and found most contained misleading or incomplete information.

The reason is not white bigoted cops or a few bad apples, says Charles Menifield, dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark. To find out why more black men are killed by police, read our release, Menifield's op-ed in the Daily News and watch his interview on CBS News.

Indian Americans have the highest percentage of bed sharing in New Jersey, but also have the lowest rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths. Less alcohol use and smoking, and a helping hand from grandparents play a role, says Barbara Ostfeld, a professor of pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who led a study examining the correlation.

The warming ocean may cause the larvae of bottom-dwelling snails to hatch earlier in the spring, when waves are larger, potentially impacting their ability to survive and serve as food for other sea creatures.

It's like a Fitbit but equipped with a biosensor that could take person health monitoring to the next level, explains Mehdi Javanmard, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering. Learn more about the development by Rutgers engineers that can monitor the counts of different cells in our bloodstream, and watch Javanmard talk about the technology on NJTV.

More than 20 percent of all preschool-aged children in the nation speak a language other than English at home. A policy paper published by the National Institute for Early Education Research addresses the lack of state policies to support these children and outlines recommendations including enhanced teacher training and increased participation in high quality preschool programs.

In July, dozens of third and fourth year Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students began performing rotations at Monmouth Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility. Retaining many of the next generation of physicians is important for a state that is so densely populated and home to young, growing families and aging baby boomers. Proximity to the beach helps.