Pig races, tractor pulls and prize‐winning produce are the hallmarks of traditional 4‐H fairs. But today’s fairgoers also can participate in 3‐D printing, robotic and drone demonstrations and follow the progress of student‐run urban gardens. Each of these activities honor 4-H’s original mission: to introduce land‐grant universities like Rutgers to the next generation.
Most middle school students spend their summers engaged in the pursuit of leisure and ice cream. But for seventh-grader Atharva Kulkarni, summer is a time to continue his passion – cancer research – while also attending Rutgers summer scholars program in New Brunswick. “Cancer is a very clever illness. … It is a really a hard disease for doctors and patients to fight because it has a mind of its own. I want to understand that mind,“ Kulkarni says.
The Board of Governors approved a tuition and fee increases of 2.3 percent for the 2018-2019 academic year for undergraduate students. The board also voted to rename the athletics field at Rutgers-Newark for civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass, who gave an address in 1849 at a church that was located on the site. In addition, the board approved renaming the Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark to the School of Arts and Sciences-Newark
Rutgers population epidemiologist provides insights into the wellbeing of aging Asian-Americans.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education recently voted to reaffirm Rutgers’ accreditation for the next nine years following visits from a team of peer evaluators who commended the university for its focus on affordability and accessibility. The decision completes a multi-year examination of the progress that Rutgers has made since its last Middle States review in 2008.
Star-shaped gold nanoparticles, coated with a semiconductor, can produce hydrogen from water over four times more efficiently than other methods – opening the door to improved storage of solar energy and other advances that could boost renewable energy use and combat climate change, according to Rutgers University–New Brunswick researchers.
Sea-level rise will endanger valuable salt marshes across the United Kingdom by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, according to an international study co-authored by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick professor.
When Jimmy Carter was diagnosed with end-stage metastatic melanoma in 2015, he began taking a drug developed in part using 3D molecular data. Insights like these into drug discovery and other fields of scientific research are possible using the 140,000-plus 3D molecular structures made freely available in the RCSB Protein Data Bank at Rutgers- New Brunswick. Every year, more than 1 million researchers worldwide tap into RCSB Protein Data Bank resources online.
Are e-cigarettes an important smoking cessation tool or an emerging public health concern? Olivia Wackowski, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, talks about her research into tobacco communication, product and risk perceptions and product use trends that have been critical to informing regulations in this Q&A.
During a class when Anthony Sacchetti plans to talk about hay quality, he can end up instead giving an impromptu lesson in how to clean and doctor a horse’s foot, working with Gus, a 27-year old Paint gelding being treated for a hoof abscess. That is the unpredictability of teaching students how to handle and care for horses at the Rutgers Farm.
Rutgers alumnus Eyal Simchi, a 2007 graduate of Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, became an internet star after a video of him performing magic tricks for a young patient was viewed more than 30 million times on social media. He didn't expect the worldwide response but hopes that it might change children's perception of going to the dentist from scary to positive.