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On Tuesday, March 24, a three-part conference at Rutgers University–Camden will explore key issues affecting the New Jersey youth. Topics include issues related to the deep end of New Jersey’s juvenile justice system (particularly the importance of data and the harmful practice of solitary confinement) and successful local education solutions for at-risk youth.
If you still believe your personal credit information is truly private, newly released research by a Rutgers professor may lead you to reconsider. Rutgers Today spoke with Vivek Singh, assistant professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Communication and Information, about his paper, “Unique in the Shopping Mall: On the Reidentifiability of Credit Card Metadata.” The study published in Science focused on the question: “Out of an anonymous set of credit card data from millions of people, how easily can you find one person?”
Lauren Silver, an assistant professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University–Camden, shines the light on the daily lives and challenges of adolescent mothers and their caseworkers as they navigate the child welfare system in her new book, System Kids, Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation (The University of North Carolina Press).
Author David Friedman will deliver a free public lecture on his latest book, Wilde In America: Oscar Wilde and The Invention of Modern Celebrity, which details Wilde’s American lecture tour of 1882, at 12:20 p.m. Thursday, March 12 on the Rutgers University–Camden campus.Author David Friedman will deliver a free public lecture on his latest book, Wilde In America: Oscar Wilde and The Invention of Modern Celebrity, which details Wilde’s American lecture tour of 1882, at 12:20 p.m. Thursday, March 12 on the Rutgers University–Camden campus.
The juxtaposition of secular laws with strong religious views leads to no small amount of complexity in the United States. What would happen if the Constitution were rewritten to reflect these competing demands?
The seventh annual Donald C. Clark, Jr. ’79 Endowed Law and Religion Lecture, titled “A Religious Constitution: The Integration of Church and State,” will seek to address that question at Rutgers University–Camden at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 26.