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.
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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).
We R Rutgers-Camden: Dennis Williams, Jr.
“I’m rooted in South Jersey,” he says. “Camden is the city I’m interested in, and I would like to stay involved here.”
Dr. Holly Blackford Links Homosexual Stereotype With Victorian-Era Sexology, Dorian Gray and Peter Pan
Dr. Holly Blackford, Professor of English, recently wrote an article, “Childhood and Greek Love: Dorian Gray and Peter Pan,” published in Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, that links a homosexual stereotype with Victorian-era sexology and the novels Dorian Gray and Peter Pan. Read the full article at NewsNow.