A new Rutgers New Jersey Medical School study shows that most people at high risk for tuberculosis (TB) relapse can be identified by testing the bacteria that causes TB before the patient begins treatment. Read the study, led by Roberto Colangeli, assistant professor, and David Alland, professor and chief of infectious disease, both in the Department of Medicine, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The federal grant, shared with the University of Pennsylvania, will be used to examine the effects of tobacco marketing on public health. Find out what how Cristine Delnevo, director of the Center of Tobacco Studies at the Rutgers School of Public Health, plans to use the funding to better understand the impact of advertising and labeling.
Teamsters Local 97 – a bargaining unit that represents 1,700 university employees – reached a four-year collective negotiations agreement with the university, reports Vivian Fernández, Senior Vice President for Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness.
A new program provides those who care for people with disabilities practical ways to reduce stress and avoid compassion fatigue. Learn more about the Caregiver Wellness program, a collaboration between Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Rutgers School of Health Professions.
President Robert L. Barchi has accepted the Rutgers Board of Governors’ request to continue to lead Rutgers University for a period of at least two years. Read about Barchi's accomplishments since he arrived at Rutgers in 2012.
Learn about the work of Gloria Bachmann, director of the Women's Health Institute at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to advance health care for women throughout the world in our series profiling Rutgers scholars who have been working for decades – before the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements started making headlines – as ardent advocates through their research, teaching and outreach.
Moshe Zonder was the head writer for Fauda, a television program that became the first Israeli show to be released as a Netflix original series. He will be teaching in the creative writing program at Rutgers-New Brunswick and participating in outreach activities for the Bildner Center this fall.
For the first time in Rutgers’ history, alumni have spaces designed solely for their needs when they visit any university location. This fall, the new Alumni House at Van Nest Hall at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the new Alumni Center at Rutgers-Newark will celebrate grand openings. These follow the opening of the Alumni House at Rutgers-Camden two years ago.
An expanded Rutgers Club with more than double the seating of its previous location and a stunning bar that can rival any New York City cocktail lounge is now open on the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Livingston campus.
The prevalence of asthma and obesity – as both separate and coexisting conditions – has grown considerably in the United States in recent years. Obesity is a major risk factor for asthma, in part, because of the systemic and localized inflammation of the airways that occurs in people with a high body mass index. Find out how new finding by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School researchers show how obesity changes airway function and increases the risk of developing asthma.