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In the News This Week
Rutgers Advances Research and Medical Education in Partnership With the HUB

A new Rutgers Translational Research facility – one of the largest of its kind in the nation – and a new home for the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will be cornerstones of the NJ Innovation & Technology HUB in New Brunswick in a project that will revolutionize the delivery of health care and medicine in the state.

Gov. Phil Murphy and Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway made the announcement Thursday at a groundbreaking ceremony at the HUB, a 550,000-square-foot, $665 million project, depicted in an artist's rendering above, being developed across the street from the New Brunswick Train Station. More.
OP/ED: The Newark History Missing From ‘Many Saints’

In The Washington Post, RU-Newark's Mary Rizzo and Whitney Strub write: Its failure to grapple with the real history of Newark at a moment of intense upheaval marked by a pitched battle between Italian Americans and Black Newarkers hollows out the story. More.

RU-Camden $upport Makes New City Athletic Facility a Reality

RU-Camden funded half of a $15 million eight-acre complex, opened earlier this month, of synthetic turf fields for soccer, baseball, track and field, and lacrosse, with a prime view of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and the Philadelphia skyline. More.
RBHS Launches Safe Firearm Storage Map in New Jersey

Researchers at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers, with support from the New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, have created the New Jersey Firearm Storage Map. More.