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Scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see.
After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and functional systems of mammalian perception. To date, it is the largest and...

New COVID-19 Drug Shows Greater Promise Against Resistant Viral Strains.
Rutgers Health researchers have developed an oral antiviral drug candidate for COVID-19 that could overcome major limitations of Paxlovid, currently the most prescribed oral treatment. As with its predecessor, the new drug candidate, Jun13296, targets a different...

How a new library is set to transform this underserved N.J. community
A $3 million grant from the New Jersey State Library’s Capital Projects Fund made [a new county library branch] possible. It allows the Gloucester County Library System to build a nearly 4,500-square-foot building in the 700 block of N. Delsea Drive, with a projected...

Poll Finds Majority of New Jerseyans Give Negative Ratings to State and National Economy.
New Jerseyans give subpar ratings to both the state and national economy, though they are more positive about New Jersey than the nation, as a whole, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll in partnership with New Jersey Organization for a Better State political...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Lumpe's article in Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research titled, "Etiology and correlates of alcohol misuse in early midlife." Early midlife, also known as established adulthood, is a period associated with changes in many functional domains....

One Rule Change Would Help Tens of Thousands of New Jersey Families Pay for Childcare
A report by the Rutgers Center for Women and Work finds an additional 200,000 children would be covered if the state adopted the federal income threshold. Read the Full Story

Advanced Models Offer Scientists a Promising Tool to Better Understand Brain Disorders
A technique employed by Rutgers scientists is advancing the ability to investigate conditions including autism and Alzheimer’s. Read the full article.

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor.
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wei, who joined NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing in 2008 and now holds the role of distinguished professor, also became an...