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What’s in Your Bottled Water? Study Suggests There May Be Hundreds of Thousands of Tiny Plastic Bits.
A breakthrough microscopic technique that can detect minute particles of plastic in bottled water that can pass into human blood, cells and the placenta with unknown health effects has been developed by a team of researchers from Rutgers Health and Columbia...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Yu's article in the Global Finance Journal titled, "Attention based dynamic graph neural network for asset pricing." Firms do not function in isolation in the marketplace. They are linked to each other through various channels, such as their supply...
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For Black Adolescents, Feeling Connected to School Has Long-Lasting Mental Health Benefits.
School connectedness – the degree to which students feel part of their school community – influences more than grades. For Black students, it’s a protective factor against depression and aggressive behavior later in life, according to a Rutgers University-New...
Clinical Research Management Collaborative Training Series on 2/8
Mobilizing Healthcare to Rural Communities: A Case Study in the Philippines Interested in Decentralized Approaches to Healthcare and Research? The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Sciences (NJ ACTS) Workforce Development core invites you to attend...
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Researchers Establish Brain Pathway Linking Motivation, Addiction and Disease.
New findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience have shed light on a mysterious pathway between the reward center of the brain that is key to how we form habits, known as the basal ganglia, and another anatomically distinct region where nearly three-quarters...
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NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
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Computer Science Professor Zhi Wei Elevated to IEEE Fellow.
Professor Zhi Wei in Ying Wu College of Computing’s Department of Computer Science has been elevated to IEEE Fellow status effective Jan. 1, 2024. The appointment is in recognition of his significant contributions to knowledge discovery from biological data and in the...
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Rutgers Startup Strives to Eliminate Industrial Carbon Emissions.
In a world where human and industry activities keep steering climate change, a Rutgers startup aims to make cement manufacturing carbon-neutral while decreasing CO2 emissions. “Our technology can accomplish two important climate change initiatives: decarbonization of...