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More Than Words: Communicating About a COVID-19 Vaccine
Health officials can’t rely on a one-size-fits-all message when it comes to communicating with the public about a forthcoming COVID-19 vaccine, says Professor William Hallman, an experimental psychologist who uses scientific research to explore human behavior. Many...
Grant Writing Workshop: Focus on Clinical Trials
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH) is presenting a grants writing workshop targeted to talented faculty who are committed to developing and submitting a clinical trial R-level funding application to NIH or similar...
Princeton University completes first week of asymptomatic testing protocol
More than 4,000 Princeton University students and employees approved to be on campus for the fall semester were tested during the first week of Princeton’s comprehensive asymptomatic COVID-19 testing protocol, which concluded Friday, Aug. 28. The testing, which is...
Virtual Workforce Development Internships Available
NJ ACTS Workforce Development Core is offering six part-time, paid internships to students (undergraduate, graduate and professional), postdocs and fellows. Participating in one of these internships would be a great opportunity to build your resume in clinical and...
Rutgers business student launches social distancing app.
Nihar Raval, a Rutgers University senior from Sayreville studying finance and supply chain management, was inspired by his 65-year-old immunocompromised mom to conceive a social distance app while grocery shopping two months into quarantine. On Sept. 2, bubbl launched...
Machine Learning Method Finds Therapeutic Targets in Pediatric Genome
A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation – a process that can change the activity of DNA without...
Environmental Health Summit: COVID-19, Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice, 9/23/20
Rutgers Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease Virtual Seminar Series, Fall 2020 CoVID-19 is Fundamentally an Environmental and Occupational Disease REGISTER for this Session September 23, 2020 - 10:00 AM This opening session will set the tone for the webinar...
NIH F31/F32 Fellowship Writing Group
Grad Students and Postdocs can join for weekly peer review sessions before submitting a NIH f31 or F32 fellowship application in December 2020. Sessions will take place on Wednesdays at 2pm on Zoom. For predocs/postdocs interested in writing F fellowship, please sign...