If Freddy Krueger had received proper mental health care, there might not have been A Nightmare on Elm Street. Students in a new class taught by Anthony Tobia, a psychiatry professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, are spending October examining the minds of 31 of the most terrifying characters from classic horror films in a class that is taking a novel approach to educate the next generation of doctors.
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions including hypertension, diabetes, and asthma despite differences in family income and health insurance, according to a recent study led by Alan Monheit and Irina Grafova at Rutgers School of Public Health.
A multimillion-dollar grant will help Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) provide assistance beyond traditional outpatient services to 4,000 people over the next two years. Adults with mental illness and substance abuse disorders, as well as children with serious emotional disturbances, will be offered access to high-quality, community-based services.
Caliburn, a supercomputer with the computational power of more than 10,000 standard desktop computers – the most powerful computing system in New Jersey – is catalyzing diverse, innovative research at Rutgers University and across New Jersey. Learn more about it at the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute's annual Open House & Research Expo on Oct. 25.
Rutgers Health has a new location for children with some of the most complex surgical needs. This brightly decorated space with an interactive wall that allows kids to play games before they visit the doctor makes the visit a little less stressful.
Gail Caputo is the founding director of a new major at Rutgers-Camden that examines the role that gender plays in the lives of heterosexual men and women as well as members of the LGBTQIA community. Learn more about the major that Caputo hopes will influence the thinking of a more gender-savvy generation of men and women in the latest in our series on Rutgers scholars and their impact on the women's movement.
Only a year after graduating from Rutgers-New Brunswick's School of Communication and Information, Julie Tsirkin works at the legendary NBC New York bureau at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as a producer for the lead White House correspondent. Read our Q&A to find out why she credits Steven Miller, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, for her success.
Like people, blue crabs aren’t all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have discovered substantial differences in the body structures of larval crab siblings and among larvae from different mothers. And that can mean the difference between an early death and survival into adulthood for this important commercial and recreational species.
Engineering students were recruited to use their knowledge and creativity to make the campus more accessible to blind and visually impaired students and visitors. Tactile maps are now available at Rutgers-New Brunswick's Alexander Library created by students in the School of Engineering and the 3D Printing Club with guidance from Howon Lee, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Richard N. Weeks, a 1950 Rutgers graduate, has committed $10 million to support undergraduate scholarships at the Rutgers School of Engineering at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Find out how Weeks’s pledge – the largest gift to Rutgers for scholarships and the largest ever to the engineering school – will help more students earn engineering degrees, and learn how the alumus already is making a difference for current students.
Experts say that investing in affordable housing that offers supportive social services for senior citizens on Medicare could reduce hospital admissions and the time needed for inpatient hospital care. Read about research, led by Michael Gusmano, an associate professor of health policy at Rutgers School of Public Health, that examined the difference these services can make for vulnerable older adults.
Daniel Shain, chair of the Department of Biology at Rutgers-Camden, is looking to engineer plants with enzymes found in microorganisms living in glaciers – which could potentially open up unusable or extremely cold lands for farming and agriculture. Find out how a quick stop at a diner in Alaska in the 1990s inspired his research.