While most people would agree that parents should not have favorites, a new Rutgers-led experimental study found that women really preferred daughters and fathers – not as strongly – favored sons. The findings, says senior author Lee Cronk, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, may help people be better parents if they become more aware of unconscious biases they hold about their children.
The majority of hospitals have room to improve the work environment for nurses and assure adequate staffing to improve patient safety, according to a recent study by a team of researchers that included Olga Jarrín, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Nursing and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Find out what the studies says should be done to make improvements.
Learn about a collaboration between Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the U. S. National Guard to prepare medics to treat the devastating injuries they will encounter when deployed. The program trains combat medics using cadavers of military veterans who donated their bodies to science in another sacrifice for their country.
Canvas will be the university’s official learning management system in a move that will replace the multiple digital tools being used across Rutgers with a system known for its ease of use, flexibility and mobile capabilities. Learn more about Canvas and the universitywide transition that will take place over the next few years.
The Office of Veteran and Military Programs and Services at Rutgers University–New Brunswick invites student veterans out for a round of golf at the Rutgers University Golf Course this Friday. Student veterans will receive golf lessons from PGA and LPGA professional instructors, while also learning vital networking skills that translate on and off the course.
A group of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School physicians are learning improv to help them communicate the complexities of science and medicine to each other and the general public. Learn about the workshops, created through a partnership between Nicholas Ponzio at the medical school and David Dannenfelser at Mason Gross School of the Arts, to teach the art of speaking plainly and effectively.
Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, will honor alumnus Anita Ashok Datar's commitment to advocacy for justice in women's global health at the second annual Institute for Women's Leadership lecture named for Datar on Nov. 7. Read a Q&A with Richards about reproductive health care issues facing U.S. women, including maternal mortality, disparities in care and reduced access to care ahead of the lecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Hear from Moshe Zonder, this semester’s Schusterman Visiting Israeli Artist at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, about what goes into successful screenwriting, the value for students in hard work and a little confidence and find out how his lessons span 2,500 years in literary history.
Dana Britton, professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations, has dedicated her career to the issues facing working women. Learn about her work promoting employment equity from corporate boardrooms to women's prisons in the last article in our series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement.
A new book by Jeffrey Lane, assistant professor in the School of Communication and Information, is the first to capture neighborhood life as it moves between the streets and social media. Learn more about the inspiration behind The Digital Street, which examines how social media impacts the lives of black teenagers and tackles some of the communication field's most pressing topics: privacy, visibility, surveillance, social support and networks.
Poor home sanitation and residents’ tolerance regarding German cockroaches were a good predictor of the pest’s presence in their apartments, according to a Rutgers study in Paterson and Irvington, New Jersey.
Gulf War veterans with unexplained illnesses can improve their balance with a new device developed by Jorge Serrador, an associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Learn more about a study he led that is the first to examine how Gulf War illnesses affect veterans’ systems integral for balance, memory and brain blood flow.