NEWS
The Pandemic Hit the Working Class Hard. The Colleges That Serve Them Are Hurting, Too.
Many community college students are adults — the average age is 28 — and even before the pandemic, they struggled to stay in school, juggling academic work with financial pressures, child care needs and even homelessness. Before the pandemic, statistics showed that at...
NJIT To Host Community COVID-19 Vaccination Center
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is pleased to announce our partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the New Jersey Office of the Governor, the Department of Defense (DoD), the New Jersey State Police (NJSP), the New Jersey Office of...
Here’s What You Can Do After You’re Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Fully vaccinated? Congratulations! You’ve taken an important step toward protecting yourself—and others—from COVID-19. Reminder: You’re considered “fully vaccinated” once it’s been two weeks since your second dose in a two-dose series (like the Pfizer-BioNTech or...
Here’s where N.J.’s healthiest people live. See where your county ranks.
The annual ranking of healthy counties in America is based on a data analysis by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that takes into account factors such as lifestyle habits, crime, disease and mortality rates, educational and financial success and...
Rutgers to Open COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics for Faculty, Students and Staff
Rutgers announced Tuesday that the State of New Jersey has approved its application to be a dispensing site for COVID-19 vaccines for the university’s faculty, staff and students. Once the university’s vaccine allotment has been determined and supplied by the state,...
Does Your Child Have MIS-C, COVID-19 or Kawasaki Disease?
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association determined clinical criteria for diagnosing multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) from severe COVID-19 and Kawasaki disease, which have similar symptoms. Diagnosing and treating MIS-C –...
RITMS Lecture Series with Dr. Tricia Burdo, April 8th
Join us for RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture Series with Tricia Burdo, PhD, Associate Professor at the Neuroscience Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. She will discuss Mechanisms for HIV-associated Cardiovascular Disease. April 8th, 2021 12:00 pm-1:00...
New Jersey residents with disabilities demand COVID-19 vaccine priority
Despite the continuous risks of COVID-19 and a disorganized vaccine rollout, many across the country, specifically those within marginalized communities, continue to face hurdles as they seek to be vaccinated. For New Jersey's residents with disabilities, registering...