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

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

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