According to a report, 65 percent of families with incomes below the federal poverty line reported their child couldn’t participate in class. Majority of Hispanic (66 percent) and Black (56 percent) parents report their children experienced these obstacles to school participation, compared to 42 percent of white parents.
Two Rutgers–Camden professors are leading projects funded by the National Science Foundation to combat COVID-19, one examining the origins of COVID-19 to anticipate how to stop its future mutations and the second to create a tool to help mayors and governors assess the impacts of different social distancing levels and travel restrictions.
Nonprofit organizations whose employees were able to utilize their social networks in addition to traditional work-related communication were better prepared to serve vulnerable clients immediately after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, according to a recently published study.
Babies born by cesarean section don’t have the same healthy bacteria as those born vaginally, but a Rutgers-led study for the first time finds that these natural bacteria can be restored.
Tiffany Gill, a scholar of 20th century African American history, commends Congress for moving to make Juneteenth a federal holiday but says the gesture still rings hollow. Find out why in this Q&A.
Evolutionary biologist and assistant professor Angelo Soto Centeno of Rutgers University–Newark’s Earth & Environmental Sciences department talks about his studies on recent mammal extinctions in the Caribbean.
Rutgers scientists have used a diagnostic technique for the first time in the opioid addiction field that they believe has the potential to determine which opioid-addicted patients are more likely to relapse.
A cardiac MRI of athletes who had COVID-19 is seven times more effective in detecting inflammation of the heart than symptom-based testing, according to a study by researchers at Rutgers and 12 other Big Ten programs.
Michael E. Zwick will be senior vice president for research at Rutgers University, effective September 1, President Jonathan Holloway and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Prabhas Moghe announced.
A Rutgers expert discusses how the legalization of cannabis could widen gaps in health and social equity for pregnant women, new mothers and their children.
A company founded by Rutgers School of Dental Medicine researcher received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to begin a phase I clinical trial to treat cancer patients with a therapy based on his discovery that a protein produced by an oral bacterium can kill leukemia and lymphoma cells.
Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and the associate director of the Price Institute at Rutgers University-Newark, has joined the class of 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.