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In the News This Week
Faculty, Staff and Students Rallied to Address a Global Health Crisis Like No Other

Employing rigorous science and an admirable work ethic with public service at its foundation, Rutgers experts have worked on innovative ways to address the pandemic. They developed improved testing and treatments and helped oversee vaccine clinical trials, among many other achievements. With vaccines being distributed, optimism is rising as Rutgers approaches the end of the 2020-21 school year and looks forward to the fall 2021 semester, when many students may be back on campus, albeit not all at the same time. More.
The Long Wait for Affordable Housing in Newark

David Dante Troutt, pictured, a distinguished professor at Rutgers Law School, the director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) and a member of Newark’s Equitable Growth Commission, pens an OP/ED on the affordable housing crisis in Newark. More.
RU-Camden Undegrads Launch "Voices of Immigration" Podcast

During her time at RU–Camden, digital studies student Tania Martinez has met countless people on campus and in the surrounding area who have shared incredible stories about their immigrant experiences. Now she wants others to hear them as well. More.
An Even Dozen: Rutgers Named Fulbright Top Producer for 12th Year

RU-New Brunswick is again on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual list of Top-Producers of Fulbright U.S. Student Grants, a distinction shared by some of the nation’s most prominent institutions. More. 
Behind the Scenes at a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

In the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Rutgers Biomedical & Health Sciences served as a site for Phase 3 COVID-19 clinical trials for two of the country’s pharmaceutical giants that brought a vaccine to the public. Drs. Jeffrey Carson and Shobha Swaminathan give an inside look at the process of creating a safe and effective vaccine. More.