The Rutgers Board of Governors announced today that Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, has been chosen as the 252nd anniversary commencement speaker for Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. Schulman will receive an honorary degree along with health care advocate and former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
A Poison Control Center expert at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School discusses the health implications of legalized recreational marijuana.
Shot over six years, Kimi Takesue’s documentary about her Japanese-American grandfather, 95 and 6 to Go, was nominated for the 2017 European Doc Alliance Award. And this year, Takesue, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers-Newark received a prestigious Breakthrough Filmmaker Award, which includes a $50,000 fellowship, for more than two decades of her work in documentaries.
The Board of Governors created the Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering to honor the fathers of alumni Gary and Barbara Rodkin as well as the Embrace Kids Foundation Chair in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, awarded the Krieger Klein Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease and Neurodegeneration Research to Luciano D’Adamio, appointed Juan González to the Richard D. Heffner Professorship in Communications and Public Policy and honored outgoing university registrar Kenneth J. Iuso.
Out of more than 500,000 alumni living worldwide, about 320 have passed another extraordinary milestone: their 100th birthday. Meet some of our oldest living alumni who share their memories about their time at Rutgers nearly 80 years ago and discover more facts and figures about our alumni.
The U.S. surgeon general recently issued an advisory recommending that more Americans carry the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, which can quickly restore normal breathing in someone suspected of overdosing on opioids. Hear from two experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School on what the public should know about the drug and how it can save lives.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and an industry consortium are investing $100 million to build a set of wireless networks for researchers to test ways of boosting Internet speeds to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality and traffic safety. Find out how researchers from Rutgers’ Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) will play a lead role in testing this new wave of mobile technology.
Pete Cammarano, who graduated from Rutgers-New Brunswick in 1987 with a degree in political science, may be the only person in recent memory to serve as chief of staff to two New Jersey governors – first Richard J. Codey and now Phil Murphy. Cammarano attributes his succees to Rutgers, where, he says, he learned absout government, the role of government and how to drive real change.
When the Baldrige Foundation decided to extend its model for organizational performance excellence in business to health care and education, Brent Ruben, istinguished professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and executive director of the Center for Organizational Leadership at Rutgers, led the effort to adapt the renowned organizational assessment planning and improvement framework to universities and colleges. This month he is the sole recipient of the foundation's first-ever education sector award.
Led by the Rutgers Recreation’s scuba coordinator Debby Miller, a veteran diver, scientific diving is one of the few such classes open to undergraduates in the United States. Scientific diving is essential to oceanographic research, an area in which Rutgers is a worldwide leader. Watch our video and read the story.
There are many reasons to celebrate this year at the Rutgers University Dance Marathon, which begins Friday. The marathon celebrates 20 consecutive years of students coming together to raise money for children and their families in the tristate area facing illness, while many of the original founders, who organized the first event in 1971, will return for a reunion. The marathon also has special meaning for one of the dancers, Matthew Ramina. He received help from the organizations supported by the marathon after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma as he was about to start his first year at Rutgers.