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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation provided the landmark grant to boost youth employment by training a new generation of farmers and food entrepreneurs. The goal of the three-year project, spearheaded by the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, is to create opportunities for youth in agriculture -- Greece’s second-largest industry -- by preparing young workers for jobs in food-related businesses and family farms and helping them launch their own new businesses. Read the release and watch our video.

Rutgers University–New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them.

A driving force behind most of the decisions Safa Abdulhai made during her time at Rutgers was to tear down misconceptions about her faith and encourage more representation of Muslim women – and women in general – in fields where they are still few in number. It’s one of the reasons why she chose to study biotechnology, decided to share her story as part of Muslim Feminists For the Arts and why she became a tutor and mentor to others at Douglass Residential College.

Climate change will force hundreds of ocean fish and invertebrate species, including some of the most economically important to the United States, to move northward, disrupting fisheries in the United States and Canada, a Rutgers University-led study reports.

When it comes to teaching gun safety to children, it does not seem to work.  Kids – especially boys – who come in contact with a gun, no matter what they have been told, are too curious not to pick it up, according to a Rutgers study. The only way to keep kids safe is to lock guns up or not have them at all, says co-author Sallie Porter, assistant professor Rutgers School of Nursing. Read our release or the story on NJ.com.

Whites consider biracial people to be less trustworthy if they change their racial presentation depending on circumstances, Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers find.

Orangutans, already critically endangered due to habitat loss from logging and farming, may face another threat in the form of smoke from natural and human-caused fires, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick study finds.

The top 2 percent of graduates were inducted on Saturday into the Matthew Leydt Society, named for the first and only 1774 graduate of Queen’s College, New Brunswick. The society, launched in 2015, spotlights top graduates at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the university’s medical division, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. The afternoon event, hosted on the grounds of the home President Robert Barchi and his wife, Francis, celebrated 171 students handpicked by the university for their achievement in the classroom, in laboratories and in the arts. 

Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, called on the Class of 2018 to take a stand for social justice as they graduate during a time of unprecedented technological and social change. “Discrimination of any kind hurts all of us – and is a threat to our very democracy,’’ Schulman said during a rainy commencement ceremony for students graduating from Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.

Megan Campbell dealt with abuse her entire life. But through it all, she knew that an education would lead her to a better life, far from the decade she spent in foster care. As a soon-to-be graduate from Rutgers University-Newark Honors Living-Learning Community with a degree in social work, the 24-year-old surivor wants to make sure what happened to her, doesn't happen to others. 

Rutgers annually recognizes outstanding faculty who have made significant contributions he classroom, to their disciplines or for the benefit of the community or world. Read more about the awards and their accomplishments that range from pioneering the study of women and politics to leading the scientific frontiers of nanotechnology to building programs and designing curriculums to serve the most diverse student population.