For students over 50, taking classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute can offer academic challenges, an opportunity to meet new friends and, for some, a new chance at love. Meet some of the couples who found love in Lifelong Learning.
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A study led by Boris Paskhover at New Jersey Medical School that found facial bones in black adults maintain higher mineral density as they age, resulting in fewer changes to their facial structure. Read the release and story in The Philadelphia Inquier to find out what this means for plastic surgery and our understanding of aging.
Just a few years ago Kim Griffin was working as a head seamstress for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Now she is pursuing an MFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts to start a new career as a costume designer for stage and screen. Read about her journey.
Read about the findings of a Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School study that reviewed the evidence for and against bariatric surgery for teenagers with obesity.
The saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” might be just what the doctor ordered for expecting fathers. Find out what a Rutgers-led study found can make a difference in getting new dads involved in prenatal care and increase healthier outcomes for women and babies.
Jill Konowich was in the middle of working on her M.D./Ph.D at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School when extreme pain started shooting up her right leg. She had been training for a half marathon with her fiancé and, suddenly, she couldn’t even walk. Read her story to find out why the recent graduate never gave up on her studies while fighting debilitating illness and how she believes the experience makes her a better doctor.
Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that can have male or female flowers.
Targeting a key gene before birth could someday help lead to a treatment for Down syndrome by reversing abnormal embryonic brain development and improving cognitive function after birth, according to a Rutgers-led study.by researchers at Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Shilpa Viswanath can trace the roots of her research interests as a doctoral student in public policy to her childhood growing up in India with a father who worked in state governement and a mother who was a college professor and union member who went on strike for fair wages. Learn more about Viswanath, who will earn her degree this month from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark.
People who regularly read with their toddlers are less likely to engage in harsh parenting and the children are less likely to be hyperactive or disruptive, according to study by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researchers that may be the first to focus on how shared reading affects parenting.
Researchers may be able improve corn yields and nutritional value after discovering genetic regulators that synthesize starch and protein in the widely eaten grain, according to a Rutgers-led study.
Dante Apaestegui, the son of parents who came to the the United States as undocumented immigrants more than 30 years ago, hopes to pursue a law degree to help the poor and disenfranchised after graduating from Rutgers-Newark. Read what sparked the passion and commitmment of this 20-year-old Paterson native, the latest in our series on the Class of 2019.