Rutgers-Newark professors Fei Zhang and Jean-Pierre Etchegaray have developed a first-of-its-kind RNA-based nanotechnology that assembles itself inside living human cells and can be programmed to stop propagation of harmful cells. Read more: go.rutgers.edu/fz1c6rie #RutgersResearch

Congratulations to the SASN Chemist Demyan Prokopchuk, who is a 2026 #SloanFellow! Prokopchuk’s lab designs catalysts that leverage reactive carbon-hydrogen bonds and high-energy electrons to help develop sustainable fuels, medicines and materials. go.rutgers.edu/prokopchuk

**New Pub** on #Trump and #MAGA: a #Epstein driven split in the making? Thanks to @democracyeditor.bsky.social and @us.theconversation.com for publishing! theconversation.com/why-maga-is-...

Why MAGA is obsessed with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump

President Donald Trump’s base has supported him through countless controversies. But they split from him over the release of the Epstein files. Why does MAGA care so much about this issue?

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Since the mid-1980s historians have known that the Home Insurance Building in Chicago was not the first skyscraper. Yet the public didn't get the message. Why is there such a big disconnect? The answer is revealed my latest pub. in the J. of Urban History. doi.org/10.1177/0096... @sasn.rutgers.edu

"We can do better. We seem persistently to be the only nation with these kinds of tragedies occurring so frequently." In the wake of the recent shooting in Minnesota, experts Paul Boxer and Vanessa LoBue share science-backed ways to reduce gun violence: go.rutgers.edu/boxer-lobue

One of my graduate students holding the floor at our constitutional studies “summer camp” mock state ratification convention at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social with @quilldir.bsky.social and cohorts from four American universities @law.rutgers.edu @sasn.rutgers.edu @rutgersgsn.bsky.social

With half of Americans viewing those on the opposite side of the political spectrum as “downright evil,” it's hardly surprising that 80% of US adults worry about political violence, notes @alexhinton.bsky.social in his piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

Trump’s America Is a Tinderbox

Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.

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Just out – my @theconversation.com piece noting that #Trump 's remarks about #WhiteGenocide in #SouthAfrica are really about U.S. #immigration and the #GreatReplacement conspiracy theory – as well as distraction from his failures to deliver his promised #goldenage theconversation.com/trumps-white...

Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history

Trump’s claims of a white genocide happening in South Africa have been debunked by fact-checkers. But this is still the rationale for bringing white South African people to the US as refugees.

theconversation.com

Tonya Smith-Jackson Appointed Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark www.rutgers.edu/news/tonya-s...

Tonya Smith-Jackson Appointed Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark

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2 million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia from 1975-1979. How much can we learn from genocides like Cambodia to counter such actions today? 50 years later, genocide expert @alexhinton.bsky.social talks to The Scholar's Circle: scholarscircle.org/scholars-cir...

Scholars' Circle - Insights into Cambodian Genocide and Wiriyamu Massacre in Mozambique - April 27, 2025

April is Genocide Awareness Month, and no genocide was more devastating, more destructive and more emblematic of the demand for never again like the Cambodian Genocide. Often referring to as the “Kill...

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Two Rutgers University professors — frustrated by the Trump administration's cuts to research funding and efforts to dictate policy on some campuses — wrote a “mutual defense compact” that calls for Big Ten schools to support each other against pressure. Their effort is gaining steam.

This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump

Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.

nytimes.com

Did you know that over 159 bird species have been spotted right here on our campus? You can spot some of them this May on one of our Bird Walks! Join @rubirding.bsky.social every Wednesday at 8am by the Nature Info sign on the plaza, near Boyden and the library. (see last photo)

Starting Soon: Our Sawyer Seminar on Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JR8...

Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice

YouTube video by Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences-Newark

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Happening Now: The Department of Social Work presents Immigration and Mental Health, a workshop for students 🦋

Urban Education prof. Lynnette Mawhinney interviewed 30 public schools teachers to get a sense of why so many are leaving the profession, in the @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/we-interview...

We interviewed 30 Black public school teachers in Philadelphia to understand why so many are leaving the profession

Experiences of racism affected Black teachers across the district but manifested in different ways depending on their school’s location.

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Faculty are cooking this semester with new grants, awards and research institutes all coming to SASN! Hear from Dean Mattis in her State of SASN address! go.rutgers.edu/sasn2024

State of SASN 2024

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Kusum Mundra Strives to Make Economics Relatable to Students sasn.rutgers.edu/news/kusum-m...

AI Algorithms Used in Healthcare Can Perpetuate Bias sasn.rutgers.edu/news/ai-algo...

Michell Jimenez Discovers a Passion for Fine Arts at Rutgers-Newark sasn.rutgers.edu/news/michell...