Can you name the state bird? Soon there might be a state microbe in its company. A soil-based bacterium called Streptomyces griseus could become New Jersey’s official state microbe 75 years after Rutgers-New Brunswick scientists, including Nobel Prize-winner Selman Waksman, discovered its ability to cure tuberculosis. Read our release and the coverage in story in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rutgers–New Brunswick conducts first-ever classroom experimental study connecting in-class cellphone use with lower test scores.
How do you get picky eaters to try nutritious food? Let them help cook, says Christopher Ackerman, a research associate at the Center for Tobacco Studies at Rutgers School of Public Health and amateur chef. He has teamed up with a 2-foot-tall, bubble-eyed puppet inspired by a small frog species native to Puerto Rico to improve nutrition education in the South Bronx. Read the story and watch the video.
Christopher Molloy has served as the university’s senior vice president for research and economic development since 2013. He replaces Deba Dutta, who has served as chancellor of the flagship campus for the past year and will be returning to the faculty as a distinguished professor in the School of Engineering.
After 10 years of research, a team of scientists led by Bonnie L. Firestein, a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers-New Brunswick, has identified two molecules that protect nerve cells after a traumatic brain injury. The findings could lead to new drug treatments that aim to allow people to retain their cognition and ability to remember and learn.
What inspired the iconic red-and-yellow sky in The Scream, the painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch that sold for a record $119.9 million in 2012? Look toward the nacreous – mother of pearl – clouds that can be seen in southern Norway, says Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Environmental Sciences professor Alan Robock who worked with scientists from University of Oxford and University of London.
Pig races, tractor pulls and prize‐winning produce are the hallmarks of traditional 4‐H fairs. But today’s fairgoers also can participate in 3‐D printing, robotic and drone demonstrations and follow the progress of student‐run urban gardens. Each of these activities honor 4-H’s original mission: to introduce land‐grant universities like Rutgers to the next generation.
Most middle school students spend their summers engaged in the pursuit of leisure and ice cream. But for seventh-grader Atharva Kulkarni, summer is a time to continue his passion – cancer research – while also attending Rutgers summer scholars program in New Brunswick. “Cancer is a very clever illness. … It is a really a hard disease for doctors and patients to fight because it has a mind of its own. I want to understand that mind,“ Kulkarni says.
Rutgers population epidemiologist provides insights into the wellbeing of aging Asian-Americans.
The Board of Governors approved a tuition and fee increases of 2.3 percent for the 2018-2019 academic year for undergraduate students. The board also voted to rename the athletics field at Rutgers-Newark for civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass, who gave an address in 1849 at a church that was located on the site. In addition, the board approved renaming the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark to the School of Arts and Sciences-Newark
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education recently voted to reaffirm Rutgers’ accreditation for the next nine years following visits from a team of peer evaluators who commended the university for its focus on affordability and accessibility. The decision completes a multi-year examination of the progress that Rutgers has made since its last Middle States review in 2008.