Rutgers Computer Scientists Receive Google Grant to Develop Personalized Data Search System

App would allow customized searches through user's stored and online information

Computer scientists Amelie Marian and Thu D. Nguyen received a grant from Google to develop a personal data search system that draws from social media pages, personal calendars, bank account information, email, Skype conversations and work documents, among other things. 

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Rutgers Study Shows Depleted Fish Stocks Can Come Back from the Brink

Fish stocks that have been depleted for decades can find their own way back to healthy levels if timely limits are put on their catch, Rutgers scientists say.

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Research Opportunities Expose Rutgers Students to UMDNJ Endeavors

Aresty undergraduate researchers to present their work at an April 19 symposium

Rutgers undergraduates participating in Aresty Research Center programs for nearly a decade have benefitted from doing life sciences research with professors at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who will join the Rutgers family this summer.

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Studies Find Wild Bees and Insects Essential to Food Security

Half of pollination is the work of wild pollinators, which are often more efficient than domestic honey bees

Pollination accounts for most of our food, and wild bees and other insects account for half the pollination. It's a good idea to have a little wild space around, so the wild pollinators have a place to live.

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Rutgers Physics Professors Find New Order in Quantum Electronic Material

May open door to new kinds of materials, magnets and superconductors

A new type of order, or symmetry, discovered in an exotic material made with uranium may one day lead to enhanced computer displays and data storage systems and more powerful superconducting magnets for medical imaging and levitating high-speed trains.

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Rutgers, UMDNJ Mark 25 Years of Attacking Environmental Hazards

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute on front lines of World Trade Center exposure illnesses, contaminated brownfields, air and water pollution

The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) was created in 1987 to pinpoint problems and resolve hazards in a state dotted with brownfields and polluted waterways.

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Exercise Motivation: How to Change ‘Just Do It’ to ‘I Want to Do It’

 Rutgers neuroscientist Joan Morrell beieves the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that plays a key role in learning and decision-making, can be trained, untrained and retrained by actions, creating habits that lead to motivation.

 

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Gaming the Flu: How We Decide to Get Vaccinated, or Not

If  you're young and healthy, the flu isn't much of a threat to you. But if you get vaccinated, you increase humanity's general immunity to the disease. How can public health officials convince you to get vaccinated? Rutgers psychologist Gretchen Chapman applies game theory for the first time to this dilemma.

 

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Rutgers Anthropologist Leads Project Cataloging Scientific Finds on What Makes Us Human

First multi-discplinary research to occur since fossils of early man were discovered 50 years ago

Anthropology Professor Robert Blumenschine and a group of scientists from around the world are trying to unlock the mystery of what makes us human more than 50 years after famed British scientist Louis and Mary Leakey discovered fossils of our earliest human ancestors.

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A Diverse Picture of Early Humans Emerges

Rutgers geologist Craig Feibel dates bone fragments found near Lake Turkana in Kenya

When paleontologists find really, really old bones, Rutgers geologist Craig Feibel tells them how old is really, really old.

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