COVID-19 Forced Us to Reimagine Our Goals. Being Flexible Helped.
COVID-19 upended lives worldwide, impacting hopes and dreams as well as disrupting goals. Hayley Svensson, a fourth-year graduate student in the social psychology doctoral program at the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, wanted to examine how the pandemic impacted...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Grasman's article in the Journal of Functional Biomaterials titled, "Aligned Collagen Sponges with Tunable Pore Size for Skeletal Muscle Tissue Regeneration." Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is a condition in which skeletal muscle mass is lost due to a...
Focusing on ‘Special Ed to Prison Pipeline’ For Disability Awareness Month.
Rutgers-Newark experts are working to raise awareness of the link between educational disability classifications and incarceration. They call it the “special ed to prison pipeline.’’ While many are aware of the school to prison pipeline–where majority youth of color...
Matthew Perry went to rehab 15 times before getting sober. Here’s why it’s so hard.
It took 15 entries into rehab before the late actor Matthew Perry found long-term sobriety, he wrote in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.” And after his death, loved ones and fans alike are honoring his commitment to recovery. “I’ve had a lot of...
The SCI’s the Limit: How Data Can Help Build More Inclusive New Jersey Schools.
School climate – the quality and character of school life – is an essential element to student learning and well-being. Failure to provide a safe, inclusive school climate can negatively impact student behaviors, academic performance and emotional security. But how...
Father’s Death Inspires Emergency Surgeon to Shift Focus From Operating Room to Prevention.
Seven years ago, Gregory Peck was working as a busy trauma surgeon, often spending more than 100 hours a week keeping people alive in the operating room or the intensive care unit. Then his father, a contractor, died because he wasn’t wearing an anchored safety...
Many in Law Enforcement Own Firearms. They Are More Likely to Have Suicidal Thoughts.
Law enforcement officers in the United States own firearms at high rates and rarely engage in secure firearm storage, which could increase their risk for suicide, according to a Rutgers study. The researchers, whose study appears in the journal Injury Prevention,...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Miles' article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence titled, "Racial/ethnic disparities in timely receipt of buprenorphine among Medicare disability beneficiaries." Medicare is a national public insurance program covering approximately 65 million adults in...
Rutgers Awarded $3.9 Million NIH Grant to Study How Previous Infections Affect Immune Response to Lung Disease.
Researchers from New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health received a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how previous infections help or hinder the body's subsequent response to unrelated pathogens that cause lung...
Amid Cocaine Addiction, the Brain Struggles to Evaluate Which Behaviors Will Be Rewarding.
Rutgers researchers have used neuroimaging to demonstrate that cocaine addiction alters the brain’s system for evaluating how rewarding various outcomes associated with our decisions will feel. This dampens an error signal that guides learning and adaptive...