Dr. Robert Emmons, the associate director of the FASC Digital Studies Center, which will open this academic year, worked as a Rotary Peace Fellow in Bangkok, Thailand, over the summer. Check out the video he made about his experience abroad!
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Win a copy of Lauren Grodstein’s new novel or Chinelo Okparanta’s new collection of short stories!
Wouldn’t you love to curl up with a good book? In honor of next week’s reading, which will feature Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Lauren Grodstein and Graduate School-Camden alumna Chinelo Okparanta, we are giving away a copy of Ms. Grodstein’s new novel, The Explanation for Everything, and Ms. Okparanta’s new short story … Continue reading Win a copy of Lauren Grodstein’s new novel or Chinelo Okparanta’s new collection of short stories!…
50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington
August 28th marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. To commemorate this significant day, Camilo José Vergara, a writer, photographer, and documentarian, posted photographs of murals of Dr. King from around the country on the abandoned Elgin Diner on Mount Ephraim Avenue … Continue reading 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington…
We R Rutgers-Camden: Dennis Egen
“Every opportunity I’ve ever had in my career can be traced back to Rutgers-Camden.”
Rutgers–Camden to Host Writers in Camden Series; First Readings Set for Sept. 11
Rutgers-Camden begins the 2013-2014 Writers in Camden series on September 11th, with readings by Lauren Grodstein, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English, and Graduate School-Camden alumna Chinelo Okparanta. This reading series, made possible in part by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), is free and open to the public. Readings start … Continue reading Rutgers–Camden to Host Writers in Camden Series; First Readings Set for Sept. 11…
Researchers Calculate Cell Chemical Reaction Rates Using Gene Expression
Dr. Desmond Lun, Associate Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Department of Computer Science, and Min Kyung Kim, a doctoral student in computational and integrative biology, are using a cell’s genes to research the way cells react with chemicals. Read the full article at NewsNow.
Dr. Janet Golden Pens Article on the Place of Religion in American Medical History
Dr. Janet Golden, Professor of History, recently wrote an article titled “‘Modern Medical Science and the Divine Providence of God’: Rethinking the Place of Religion in Postwar U.S. Medical History,” which examines how many parents who experienced the death of children during the postwar period relied heavily on religion to help make sense of the … Continue reading Dr. Janet Golden Pens Article on the Place of Religion in American Medical History…
Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis Presents Two Papers During American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis (assistant professor, CFAS-sociology) presented a paper, “Sustainable Ties: Social Support among the Poor” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in August, 2013, in New York. She also presented “We Are the 99 Percent: The Rise of Poverty and the Decline of Poverty Stigma” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting … Continue reading Dr. Joan Maya Mazelis Presents Two Papers During American Sociological Association Annual Meeting…
Biology Student Presents Paper with Professor
Anthony Rossi (MS, May, 2013, Biology) presented a paper with Prof. D. Shain entitled “Polychaete tubes and oligochaete cocoons: an evolutionary link?” to the International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia on August 6, 2013. He also published some of this study as Rossi, AM, Saidel WM, Marotta R, Saglam N, and Shain, DH (2013) Operculum Ultrastructure in Leech Cocoons, Journal … Continue reading Biology Student Presents Paper with Professor…
CCIB-REU Students Cap a Successful Program with a Dynamic Research Poster Fair
Beginning in June, ten students embarked on a ten-week program which allowed them to engage in in-depth research that “combined experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches with a focus on the intersection of the mathematical, computational, and biological sciences.” The students, who were from Rutgers-Camden as well as Burlington and Camden County Colleges, were selected after … Continue reading CCIB-REU Students Cap a Successful Program with a Dynamic Research Poster Fair…