Nicholas Page has high ambitions; his goal is to develop the first drug-based treatment for autism. Maine Christos is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge by analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider. The two students at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, are among 211 students selected nationwide for the top undergraduate award of its kind in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Imagine two middle-school science students working on the same problem. One understands the science but has trouble expressing it. The other knows the right answer but doesn't understand why it's the right answer. You're the teacher. What to do?
Cassie Sadowitz has to smile when strangers at an airport, eyeing her Jacksonville Jaguars gear with its distinctive fierce mascot, take her for a team cheerleader. Still, Sadowitz understands the error, given her age and the relative scarcity of women holding the title of general counsel in the storied National Football League. “The fact that I am one of the youngest general counsel in the NFL is intriguing to people,” says Sadowitz, who graduated from Rutgers-New Brunswick in 2009.
Speaking at Rutgers, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is encouraged by the number of women, particularly young women, who are running for office or who are active in politics. "I believe we are on the brink,” she said. Her talk, hosted by Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics, attracted a crowd of more than 5,000 to the Rutgers Athletic Center. Watch the video and read our story, along with the coverage on NJ.com.
The success of both groups – comprised of students from across the university including – Rutgers-New Brunswick's Honors College and the School of Engineering and Rutgers Business School – set a historic benchmark: It’s the first time that two teams from the same university won top honors in Hult Prize regional competitions. Their success also comes one year after a Rutgers team won the $1 million Hult Prize for Roshni Rides, a rickshaw transportation business designed to improve the lives of refugees overseas.
Scientists at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station will host singer-songwriter Ben Sollee for four days in April when he comes to create a “songscape” for the watershed. Sollee’s composition will be one of several organized by Sustain Music and Nature, which creates connections between musicians and nature organizations to draw attention to the work of both.
Field corn, genetically modified to kill a particular pest, also keeps that pest from its unmodified neighbors, a study has found.
The oldest legible, intact Torah scroll sheet known to exist – a vital link to the founding documents of Judaism – was recently purchased by the Library of Congress for the public’s benefit, with help from Rutgers-New Brunswick scholar Gary Rendsburg.
The number of uninsured has plummeted in New Jersey since the federal government enacted the Affordable Care Act – and nearly half of residents would even be willing to pay higher taxes to protect health insurance coverage statewide if Congress repeals the law, according to a recent poll by Rutgers Center for State Health Policy.
Imagine a small paper device that can rapidly reveal from a drop of blood whether an infection is bacterial or viral. The idea, proposed by senior biomedical engineering students in the School of Engineering won second place – and $50,000 – in national contest for promising technology that could improve primary-care delivery at the front lines of medicine.
Andrew Norris, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers-New Brunswick, is a pioneer in a field known as cloaking, which can help make underwater objects appear invisible. He has created a model for directing sounds waves to go around — instead of colliding with — an object, hiding it from detection. Research applications could lead to improved acoustic technology, including enhanced imaging under water, and biomedical applications, such as clearer imaging of tissue.