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The annual SAS Staff Excellence Recognition program highlights and celebrates staff who have distinguished themselves in service excellence, dedication to the School of Arts and Sciences, and to our faculty, students, and constituents. Dean March recognized the 2019 SAS Staff Excellence Award winners at a ceremony at Winants Hall. Among those winners was CCB's infamous lab support specialist, Bob Porcja. Porcja uses in-class demonstrations to spark students' interests in an often intimidating...

Eddy Arnold knows all too well the challenges involved in stopping a virus. The Rutgers University structural biologist has spent 33 years engaged in the battle against HIV, helping to discover two FDA-approved anti-AIDS drugs.  Now Arnold is feeling an eerily familiar sense of urgency as he watches the novel coronavirus spread around the world, infecting hundreds of thousands and sowing panic, fear, and confusion.  So this veteran scientist has joined the effort to combat a new threat.   “My group is...

Nanotech NYC sits down with students, faculty and researchers from across the city to give those interested a glimpse into the local nanotechnology scene. The following Q&A with Jonathan Stoeber, a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, originally appeared on Nanotech NYC's site, written by Jacob Trevino. Tell us a little bit about where you are from (hometown, what it’s like there). I grew up in a small, inner-city...