Road Trip! Rutgers Students Swarm Capitol Hill, by Bus

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Mobile Town Hall Brings Rutgers Students to Capitol Hill

More than 30 students from RU-New Brunswick boarded a Megabus with U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone for the mobile town hall trip from New Brunswick to Washington, D.C. The day included meetings with Rep. Donald Norcross and Rutgers alumni U.S. Rep. Darren Soto of Florida and Adam Minehardt, chief of staff to New York Rep. Nydia Velázquez. Students also had a chance to meet with other congressional staffers for the New Jersey delegation. More.

RU-Newark Study Shows Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Affects Youth

The ambitious longitudinal study strongly links Israeli and Palestinian youths persistent exposure to ethnic-political violence to serious violent and antisocial behavior as they become young adults. More.

RU‒Camden Nursing Students Learn While Teaching

This semester, juniors at the Rutgers School of Nursing‒Camden are teaching health-promoting behaviors to low-income children in the preschool program at the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of Mercer County, in Trenton. More.

RBHS Study: Smokeless Tobacco Risks Misunderstood

While smokeless tobacco products are addictive, contain cancer-causing chemicals and are linked with cardiovascular and certain cancer risks, smokeless products such as "snus" have comparatively fewer health risks than smoking when used exclusively. More.