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U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., introduced bipartisan legislation this week  that would allow designated universities, including Rutgers University, to partner with the Food and Drug Administration and industry to further develop and implement a faster, more efficient pharmaceutical manufacturing process. Learn more.

Louis Benjamin Rolsky, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Religion at Rutgers-New Brunswick, says we can benefit by incorporating Mister Rogers' lessons on race, empathy and human compassion into our lives. Find out what he has to say in this Q&A before the upcoming release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers.

      

Daniel Hayden went back to school to pursue physics degree and found new home in the Rutgers Makerspace where he was able to deepen his love of music by actually building his own guitar. 

Rutgers has a rich history of discovery, culture and innovation – but as one of America’s oldest colonial colleges some spooky folklore has also developed over the years. For Halloween, we take a look at the spirited legends of the macabre floating around campus, as told by Angus Kress Gillespie, Rutgers folklore expert.

Rutgers is among five sites around the country designated as a National Institutes of Health’s Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub to speed up the commercialization of biomedical discoveries into viable diagnostics, devices, and therapeutics, improve patient care, enhance health and train the next generation of innovators. Learn more.

Cycling is safer with more cyclists on the road, but injuries are on the rise among older riders, according to a study by led by Corina Din-Lovinescu at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

                 

                

You’d think that losing 25 percent of your genes would be a big problem for survival. But not for red algae, including the seaweed used to wrap sushi. An ancestor of red algae lost about a quarter of its genes roughly one billion years ago, but the algae still became dominant in near-shore coastal areas around the world, according to Rutgers University–New Brunswick Professor Debashish Bhattacharya, who co-authored a study in the journal Nature Communications.  

Read about the experiences that drove three students in the School of Health Professions physician assistant program to make a committment to helping people in underserved committee get access to the the health care they need, earning them a prestigious scholarship from the National Health Service Corps.