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Rutgers researcher says therapy should be integrated into community mental health centers.
A Rutgers-New Brunswick team led by Maria Gloria Dominquez-Bello, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology and Department of Anthropology, says there has been a staggering loss in microbial diversity worldwide that is needed to digest food, strengthen our immune system and protect us against invading germs. Learn about the proposed solution – the creation of a global microbiota vault to protect the long-term health of humanity – the team proposes in the journal Science.
Lulu Delacre visits the Zimmerli Art Museum to discuss how her Latin heritage and life experiences were vital to her creation of vibrant illustrations for the memoir of the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Find out more about the talk and book signing tonight and the Zimmerli’s exhibit of Delacre’s illustrations for Sotomayor’s new children’s book.
Major health care initiatives, plans for an innovation hub in New Brunswick and a partnership with the city to build the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center are among major projects signaling an economic rebirth in the region. Read why Rutgers President Robert Barchi said a renaissance is underway in New Brunswick.
A study coauthored by Julie Lockwood, a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources at Rutgers-New Brunswick, sheds new light on how and why the exotic pet trade has become the primary source for reptiles and amphibians that arrive in non-native lands, where they may become ecologically damaging invaders.
Rutgers researchers publish electronic health record assessment that can identify epilepsy patients at risk for obstructive sleep apnea.
Green algae that evolved to tolerate hostile and fluctuating conditions in salt marshes and inland salt flats are expected to survive climate change, thanks to hardy genes they stole from bacteria, according to a Rutgers-led study.
The new centers, started by Sahar Aziz and Rose Cuison Villazor, chancellor’s social justice scholars at Rutgers Law School in Newark, will be dedicated to fighting discrimination and advancing more inclusive immigration and citizenship laws.
Seemingly out of science fiction (it has been used by the fictional doctors on Grey’s Anatomy), the virtual dissection table brings the future of gross anatomy and clinical science education to Rutgers’ School of Health Professions. Watch our video and read the story to find out how working with a digital cadaver helps students learn.