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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…
Faculty News: August 9, 2013
Dr. Cati Coe (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) is a coeditor of the book The Anthropology of Sibling Relations: Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (Palgrave, 2013). She also had a chapter published in Child Fosterage in West Africa: New Perspectives on Theories and Practices regarding a series of court cases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) over the … Continue reading Faculty News: August 9, 2013…
Orientation Fall 2013
Orientation for the Fall 2013 semester is quickly approaching, and we are excited for another great semester at Rutgers-Camden!A schedule of campus-wide activities is available at https://newstudents.camden.rutgers.edu/2013orientationprograms.New Student Day of Service will be held on Aug. 29. More details are at https://newstudents.camden.rutgers.edu/.
New Faculty Member Dr. Chinyere Osuji Receives Honor
Dr. Chinyere Osuji, who joins the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, has received an Emerging Diversity Scholar citation from the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID).