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Join NJ ACTS Workforce Development Core for NIH Grant Bootcamp
Learn from grant writing coaches, recent awardees, and experienced peer reviewers. Who can participate? Postdocs, residents, fellows, faculty, instructors, and clinicians working towards career (K) and research (R) grants for submission to NIH. When and where? July...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
NJIT Researcher: Neural Networks Can Mediate Between Download Size and Quality.
Application data requirements vs. available network bandwidth has been the ongoing Battle of the Information Age, but now it appears that a truce is within reach, based on new research from NJIT Associate Professor Jacob Chakareski. Chakareski and his team,...
Matthew Desmond’s Princeton course ‘Poverty, by America’ field-tests promising solutions in collaboration with community partners.
“Why is there so much poverty in America, and what can we do about?” Last spring, Matthew Desmond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” retooled a large lecture course he had been teaching, to coincide with the...
This is what actually happens to body fat when you lose weight.
If you’ve decided to lose weight, or you're trying to bulk up and lean out, you probably have some—okay, a lot—of questions about what happens next. In the mix: How does fat leave the body? Like, does it magically disappear into the air? Is there a super complicated...
Drinking Water Will Be Safer Under New Federal Limits on Forever Chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced new federal rules requiring water companies to reduce the amount of so-called forever chemicals – which have been linked to increase cancer risk and other illnesses – in drinking water nationwide. Robert Laumbach,...
PharmD/MD Program Celebrates 10 Years of Innovative Health Education.
The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School mark 10 years of the pharmacy and medicine dual degree program, the only such program in the nation. So far, the rigorous course of study has produced 21 graduates who have completed or are...
Mindfulness Training Enhances Opioid Addiction Treatment.
Supplementing standard opioid addiction treatment with Mindfulness Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) — an intervention that incorporates mindfulness training, savoring skills, and cognitive reappraisal — cuts program dropout rates by 59 percent and relapses by 42...