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In the News This Week
Game. Set. Match.

Alister Martin’s journey from high school to a famous Florida tennis academy to the White House began in his senior year after a fight with members of a street gang in his neighborhood. It left him with two broken wrists, a fractured facial bone, and a rude awakening. The fact that Martin, pictured, a 2010 Rutgers graduate, wasn’t aware of the fighters’ affiliation was immaterial: Neptune High, in a Jersey Shore town plagued by gang violence, had a zero-tolerance policy toward gang activity. The school expelled Martin, propelling him, he says, to “rock bottom.” More.
Prominent Recognition Awarded to School of Nursing–Camden

For redefining the possibilities—and beneficiaries—of experiential learning, the School of Nursing–Camden has been designated a 2021 National League for Nursing Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for enhanced student learning and professional development. More.
From The Washington Post: RU-Newark Profs on Place-Based Crime Prevention

When it comes to crime prevention, the police have always said they can’t do it alone. In New Jersey, criminologists at RU-Newark are getting communities involved in “Risk Terrain Modeling” to help analyze where urban crime hot spots are located, and bringing citizens and police officers together to target them, both reducing crime and saving public dollars. More.

Rutgers’ Eagleton Students Gain Hands-on Redistricting Experience

A new project allows students to work alongside a non-partisan coalition fighting to reform and inform the State’s redistricting process. Student recommendations will be part of presentations to both the Legislative Apportionment Commission and Congressional Redistricting Commission. More.
Two Years Since COVID-19: What Have We Learned?

The disease has caused more than 800,000 deaths in the United States and five million deaths worldwide while transforming our lives in unprecedented ways. Rutgers experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business discuss what we have learned since the onset of COVID-19 -- what we might expect in the future. More.