Two faculty members won prestigious National Book Critics Circle awards.
Spring 2021
Thinking Big
Rutgers Big Ideas—an initiative of 12 bold projects with global implications—draw on the university’s academic, health care, and research expertise to better the world.
PLUS: Saving the Jersey Shore • Remembering a Restive Rutgers • Playing Through the Pandemic • Putting Workers First • Testing for a Safe Vaccine
Two professors of medicine lead clinical trials at Rutgers to facilitate the testing of the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
Rutgers is requiring students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and strongly encouraging faculty and staff to do so.
Rutgers researchers design a test that can detect coronavirus variants in one hour.
The Rutgers teaching hospitals for Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School make Newsweek’s Best Maternity Hospitals for 2021.
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research gets $10 million to support the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study.
Howard Drew, a faculty member at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, enlists the school to provide dental service for Holocaust survivors.
Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, at Rutgers School of Nursing, gets a grant to stem infection rates among gay men in Romania, where AIDS is rampant.
Rebecca Kolins Givan, a scholar of labor and employment relations, assesses the state of workers’ rights in the United States.