Information for New Jersey's Policy Leaders
October 2008
Campus News |
Service to the State |
People in the Know
CAMPUS
NEWS
NIH Awards Rutgers $57.8 Million
Two major awards worth more than $57.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were given to Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR). The first award, a five-year cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Mental Health, will fund genetic studies of mental disorders. The funds will establish the Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders based at Rutgers and has a budget of $42.4 million plus a supplemental award of $1.2 million. The second award, a five-year, $14 million contract with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), will support investigations into the causes of digestive, liver and kidney diseases, and diabetes.
Federal Grant for Research on Antipsychotics
Rutgers has received a $2.3 million grant from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lead a major study of use, safety and effectiveness of antipsychotic medications. The Rutgers Center for Health Services Research on Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Disease Management, and Outcomes, a unit of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, will lead a consortium which includes Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Vanderbilt University and Columbia University. This national study of medication outcomes will focus on safety and effectiveness in the elderly and youth subpopulations of patients treated with these medications. Antipsychotics have come to be widely used in a clinically diverse population, including many children and adolescents with such behavioral disorders as aggression and elderly persons with symptoms of dementia, as well as adults with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.
Executive MBA program ranked among world's best
Rutgers Business School has been ranked highly in the
Financial Times' global ranking of the world's best Executive MBA (EMBA) programs. In its most recent publication, the
Financial Times ranked the Business School number two worldwide in the category of Career Progress, which is calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and the size of the company alumni are working in now versus before receiving their EMBA degree. Among public universities in the US which offer EMBA programs, Rutgers Business School was ranked third. The
Financial Times ranked 96 EMBA programs as the best worldwide and Rutgers came in #37, placing it in the company of programs such as those offered by Cornell University (#33) and Georgetown University (#35).
SERVICE TO THE STATE
Voter Website
Voters who wish to be informed about candidates, ballot questions and voting procedures can do so at the Rutgers' Eagleton Institute of Politics website devoted to pubic affairs issues affecting New Jersey. Among other things,
www.njvoterinfo.org allows voters to locate a congressional district by clicking on the home municipality, learn about the candidates running in their districts by checking biographical information and issue statements from the candidates and connect to such other useful sites as the New Jersey Division of Elections, Project Vote Smart, the League of Women Voters of New Jersey and the political parties. For more information, contact Ingrid Reed at (732) 932-9384, ext. 232.
Domestic Violence Program
October may be National Domestic Violence Awareness Month but the Domestic Violence Program at the Rutgers–Camden law school provides year-round, free legal assistance for victims who otherwise could not avail themselves of this much-needed service. Through this program, now in its 13th year, law students volunteer to work with the Camden County Family Court in providing legal services. The Domestic Violence Project is one of several pro bono initiatives at the Rutgers School of Law–Camden that deliver free legal assistance to underserved populations in southern New Jersey. For more information on the program, visit
http://org.law.rutgers.edu/o-dvp/.
PEOPLE IN THE KNOW
If you'd like to know more about:
The Continuing Financial Crisis, contact a wide variety of Rutgers-Newark experts, including Business School professors
Ivan Brick,
John Longo,
Ben J. Sopranzetti, and
Dan Weaver. Or, contact Bridget Daley at (973) 353-5177 to schedule an interview with any of these experts.
Looking for Rutgers expertise on a particular topic? Browse the
Rutgers Speakers Bureau:
http://ur.rutgers.edu/speakers/
For additional information and news, click on the following links:
Questions and comments, please contact
staterel@oldqueens.rutgers.edu
