Danielle Dick, an expert on the role of genetics and the environment in addiction, is the inaugural director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center.
Summer 2022
We Did It!
Despite two years of academics disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Class of 2022 perseveres and gets a stirring send-off at commencement.
PLUS: Meet the alumnus who is married to The Mob (Museum) • Women’s basketball coaching icon C. Vivian Stringer retires • The summer’s best beach chair • Alumni who are stewards of nature • Sublime soul food
Microbiologists Martin J. Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, esteemed for investigating the widespread depletion in the diversity of the human microbiome, are the subject of a documentary.
The New Jersey State Policy Lab at Rutgers releases a report outlining the effects of marijuana use on health, education, and law enforcement.
Rutgers students develop BabySafe Health, an app that provides pregnant women vital information in an all-in-one platform.
Rutgers researchers has successfully stabilized an enzyme that can degrade scar tissue, resulting from spinal cord injuries and promote tissue regeneration.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will receive $30 million to study long-term and delayed impacts of COVID-19 in children.
Researchers at Rutgers University–Camden are investigating what causes the cellular impairment that prompts disease in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients.
With a $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rutgers seeks to improve the health and quality of life in underserved communities.
Jeffrey Robinson, the Prudential Chair at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick and the new provost and executive vice chancellor at Rutgers–Newark, champions urban development, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and inclusive innovation and technology as the keys to social change.