Sexism is the main cause of inequality and violence against women across the world says Melissa Upreti, senior director of program and global advocacy at the Rutgers Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The human rights lawyer and women’s rights advocate has been at the center of legal battles across the globe fighting to stop violence against women and advocating for their reproductive rights. Read the latest in our series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement.
Find out how Rutgers and the City of New Brunswick are working together to improve safety and security for students and residents. The partnership includes a shared services agreement for the Rutgers University Police Department to provide 9-1-1 and emergency dispatch services for the city’s police and fire departments and a camera project to deter crime.
Does it feel like our electoral system is broken? Rutgers-New Brunswick philosophy Professor Alexander Guerrero has a solution: a “lottocracy” – a new form of government in which adult citizens would be randomly selected to serve as lawmakers. Read our Q&A to find out why he says it’s time to think beyond the limits of our current system.
Leaders from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences and RWJBarnabas Health discussed challenges facing health care nationwide and in New Jersey Tuesday at an inaugural Academic Health Symposium. Find out what the panelists, who included RBHS Chancellor Brian Strom, Rutgers President Robert Barchi, and David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, among others, had to say.
Infants born at home have more diverse bacteria in their guts and feces, which may affect their developing immunity and metabolism, according to a study in Scientific Reports.
Learn about the new 4+4 Program offered by Rutgers-New Brunswick’s Honors College and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in collaboration with the Rutgers Global Health Institute, that eliminates the cost and pressure of taking the MCAT, while allowing students to embrace their undergraduate experience.
It can take 17 years or longer before research that can improve mental health is put into practice. Find out how a multi-million dollar federal grant to Rutgers School of Health Professions to fund a regional Mental Health Technology Transfer Center – one of 10 nationwide – can help speed up the process.
Learn about a new humanities concentration that will be part of the NJ-STEP program, based at Rutgers-Newark, that aims to help inmates and formerly incarcerated gain a better understanding of the world around them. The program, funded through a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will focus on the study of human culture.
Every day, Rutgers experts appear in global, national and regional news outlets, lending their voices to current and critical topics ranging from climate change, economic trends, agriculture and politics to the opioid abuse epidemic and other health-related issues. Take a look at some of the many Rutgers faculty who emerged as the most cited for their expertise in various media during the last academic year.
Move over microbreweries. Megan Muehlbauer, a Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station agent, believes she has stumbled upon the next big food trend and wants to help put New Jersey on the map. Read our release and the story in Food and Wine to find out how she is laying the groundwork to revive the state’s hard cider industry that dates back to colonial times and prospered before prohibition.
Pregnant mother's exposure to chemicals often used in personal care products, children’s toys and more may be linked to delays in language development during early childhood, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Read what Emily Barrett, an associate professor at Rutgers School of Public Health and a coauthor of the study, says it reveals about the need for tighter regulations of the phthalates used in everyday products.
It has been long debated whether the Graduate Record Examinations (GREs) are an appropriate selection tool for graduate school admissions, and whether overreliance on GRE scores may exclude many students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.