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Algorithms Expert is First Woman at NJIT to Become IEEE Fellow.
Guiling (Grace) Wang, professor and associate dean for research in Ying Wu College of Computing, was recently named an IEEE Fellow, one of the electronic technology industry's highest honors. She is the first woman to earn the honor among several male recipients at...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core for a Seminar on February 1st
Working with the News Media Tuesday, February 1, 2022 Zoom 12:00pm -1:00pm ET Zoom Meeting: https://go.rutgers.edu/n7a9nndl Media coverage is essential to the public’s understanding of the mission of Rutgers and the value the institution delivers to the state, nation...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Reichman's article in the Annals of Epidemiology titled, "Racial-ethnic inequality in cardiovascular health in the United States: Does it mirror socioeconomic inequality?". Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the leading cause of death in the United States...
Long-Excluded Uterine Cancer Patients Are Step Closer to 9/11 Benefits
The hormone-related cancer can develop after someone is exposed to the kind of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including benzene, that were found in the dust that lingered in Lower Manhattan for months after the 9/11 attacks. Read the Full Article.
Philadelphia’s ability to track COVID-19 variants — and the nation’s — is hobbled by a lack of resources.
COVID-19 patients are filling more beds in Main Line Health’s hospitals, but whether it’s the new omicron variant or the delta variant that put them there, doctors largely don’t know. Genetic sequencing, the process that could tell them quickly, is in short supply in...
Rutgers Receives $10 Million for Initiative to Combat Health Inequities.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made visible the inequities that riddle the American healthcare system. Black and Latinx Americans have been three times more likely to contract the coronavirus and twice as likely to die from it. But even before the pandemic, minority...
The NSF I-Corps Northeast Hub has launched, and applications are now open for its inaugural innovation training program for researchers.
Aiming to propel discoveries made in university labs into everyday life, the new NSF I-Corps Northeast Hub launched this week and announced that applications are open for its first researcher training program. The 4-week program, in which researchers confront the...
AMA’s new language guide is a step toward health equity
The American Medical Association recently published “Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative, and Concepts.” It encourages doctors to address the upstream social causes of health inequities, such as unsafe housing conditions, and to center care around...