Three Black women who have made history in their political careers share insights into the lives of their constituents - and the political system itself at a Rutgers-Newark Black History Month event.
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Pabitra Sahoo has made it his life’s work to understand how our neurological system becomes damaged, and when and how neurons in our central and peripheral nervous systems regenerate and heal. Recently, Sahoo and his team made a breakthrough, using a peptide to help nerve cells in both the peripheral and central nervous systems regenerate.
On February 25th, Express Newark launched Ritual, a series of exhibitions and events that explore the relationship between Islamic spiritual practices, rituals, and art.
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This fall SASN is doubling down on its commitment to data-science research and teaching as it launches the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS), an interdisciplinary center that will serve as an organizing hub for applied ethical scholarship and practice in data science and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) as they’re brought to bear on difficult problems facing urban communities.
The AI algorithms increasingly used to treat and diagnose patients can have biases and blind spots that could impede healthcare for Black and Latinx patients, according to research co-authored by Rutgers-Newark data scientist Dr. Fay Cobb Payton.
The Beckman Scholars Program, a prestigious science and engineering effort to increase STEM diversity among undergraduates, started this summer at Rutgers-Newark with its first two students embarking on year-long research projects.
Cindy Saladin-Muhammad holds several singular distinctions. She serves as Deputy Commanding General of the 807th Medical Command and recently was promoted to brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserves, one of only a handful of African American females to attain that rank in the medical field of the military.
Giancarlo Piccinini (SASN ’18) is a lawyer in the NJ Attorney General’s Office, focusing on firearms litigation to prevent gun violence in New Jersey. He's also giving back to his alma mater by teaching a legal writing class at RU-N.
Ghufran Hussain, the child of immigrants who fled Iraq, graduated this month with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She was the undergraduate speaker at her commencement ceremony and is planning to attend physician assistant school.
In the U.S. Capitol, they aren’t considered powerbrokers. But congressional staffers play a critical role in shaping U.S. laws and policies. And the nation pays a price when so few of them are Black and Latinx, according to Rutgers-Newark Professor James Jones.
Rutgers-Newark professor Jason Barr, an authority on skyscrapers, examines them through the lens of an economist, not an expert on architecture.
Studies by psychologists Kent Harber and Valeria Vila found that people with high levels of emotional distress, even distress unrelated to COVID, were more prone to embrace supernatural explanations for the pandemic, conspiracy theories, and false remedies.