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Record Number of Rutgers Student-Athletes Named to Fall Academic All Star Teams

The Big Ten Conference has recognized a record 100 Rutgers student-athletes in the Fall 2019 Academic All-Big Ten list. Seven different Rutgers programs were represented on the list including 33 from football, 19 from women's soccer, 15 from field hockey, 11 from women's cross country, 10 from volleyball and six from both men's soccer and men's cross country. The 100 Scarlet Knight selections are a fall school record since joining the Big Ten for the 2014-15 academic season, surpassing the 85 from the Fall of 2018. More.
RU-Camden Study Finds Troubling New Re-Entry Data

Post-prison barriers to health care lead to poor physical and mental health, according to an eye-opening new RU–Camden prisoner re-entry study that looked at data beyond recidivism rates. More.

Cellphone Use Prompting ER Visits, RU Research Finds

The research was led by a facial plastic surgeon whose patients include a woman who broke her nose when she dropped her phone on her face. Dr. Boris Paskhover of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School said his experience treating patients with cellphone injuries prompted him to look into the problem. More.

RU-Newark Students Search for NJ's 1st Chinatown Descendants

Researchers are hoping to find the remains of Chinese immigrants who settled in Belleville to work at a laundry factory around 150 years ago after working on the Central Pacific Railroad. These immigrants set up the first Chinatown in New Jersey, as well as the Northeast. More.

Rutgers Partnership to Fast Track Scientific Discoveries to Patients

New Jersey residents will have access to the newest clinical trials and medical breakthroughs as a result of an innovative consortium between Rutgers University, Princeton University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. More.
Rutgers Grad is University's 1st Marshall Scholar

The prestigious post-graduate award, won by just 46 people nationwide, went to Diego A. Atehortúa, a 2018 RU alum, who was also the first Rutgers student to win a Beinecke Scholarship. Atehortúa had previously won a Fulbright Fellowship that took him to Brazil for nine months earlier this year. More.