This Couple Met at Rutgers, with a Little (Unintended) Help from Their Favorite Professor

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Scott Weber was out celebrating the completion of his honors thesis when he ran into some fellow Rutgers students.

Rutgers Professor Shows Students the Broader World Just Beyond the University's Borders

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Professor Marcy Schwartz takes Rutgers students beyond the borders of the New Brunswick campus and outside their usual range of college experiences. Last year she organized a group of students to provide translation to and from Spanish during the first in-person parent-teacher conferences at Livingston Elementary School since the Covid-19 pandemic. Some students translated during the individual conferences while others served as guides for the Spanish-speaking parents, many of whom are new immigrants.

Rutgers Scholars Launch Book Series Highlighting Boldly Alternative Writers of Italy

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Scholars in the Italian department at Rutgers University have joined forces with Rutgers University Press to translate and publish “Other Voices of Italy,” a book series that introduces English-speaking audiences to a selection of authors from Italy–some contemporary and some from earlier generations—whose work often wrestles with issues of alienation, injustice, and despair in Italian society.

Elizabeth Detention Center, Marred by Allegations of Abuse and Neglect, is the Focus of Symposium at Rutgers

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Over the course of three decades, the Elizabeth Detention Center has become, for many, a symbol of immigrant injustice in New Jersey. This Friday, Rutgers University will hold a symposium, Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future, that will examine the ways in which the center reflects the larger story of immigration enforcement in the United States.

Rutgers Reinvents English 101 for a New Generation of Students

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The venerable English “101” writing class—a staple of undergraduate education and a required course for nearly every first-year student—will look very different this semester at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Formerly called “Expository Writing," the course will now be "College Writing," to reflect a major overhaul by the Department of English that incorporates fresh teaching strategies and expands the range of writing styles and genres that students encounter and master.

Beyond the Opioid Epidemic: Scientist Seeks to Develop non-Addictive Treatment for Pain

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The opioid epidemic emerged in the 1990s with a surge in prescriptions for medications like oxycodone and hydrocodone. In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the epidemic a public health crisis. In 2019, more than 10 million people abused prescription opioids and 1.6 million of them misused for the first time. In the same year, over 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, the HHS said.

A Student's Epic Trek Inspires a Calling in Glacier Science

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Journey Berry, an SAS Senior, is doing research on the impact of climate change on the Bear Glacier Lagoon region while completing a double major in geology and geography.

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