July 12 marked an important, painful milestone in the history of Newark. UMDNJ commemorates the events of July 1967, the Newark Rebellion, and provides a number of resources for you to remember, to learn, and to become engaged.
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A series of Open Forum sessions will bring UMDNJ’s new president, William F. Owen, Jr., MD, to three campuses in one week. The forums, which will include time for questions and answers, will take place on July 16 in New Brunswick’s CAB, July 18 in Stratford at the Academic Center auditorium, and July 19 in Newark at the Oral Health Pavilion.
The forums will be available as podcasts and archived for viewing on the University’s web site.
The UMDNJ-School of Public Health (SPH) has received re-accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) for a seven-year period, which is the maximum accreditation time period that a school of public health can receive. SPH is one of just 38 schools accredited by CEPH, the governing body that accredits schools of public health.
SPH is the country’s first and only collaborative school of public health accredited by CEPH. The School is sponsored by UMDNJ, Rutgers University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. It offers master’s and doctoral degree programs in public health on campuses in Newark, Piscataway/New Brunswick, and Stratford/Camden, along with 12 dual degree and articulated programs with other institutions of higher learning.
Following their recent discovery of previously unknown molecules that affect cell growth, scientists at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) have launched an innovative research project that could change medical science’s understanding of – and fight against – chronic disease. This promising new research has been funded by a five-year, nine million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Alexey Ryazanov is the principal investigator of the project and a professor in the Department of Pharmacology at RWJMS. Together with UMDNJ, several universities will participate in this multidisciplinary project, including the University of Hawaii, the University of Washington and the University of Iowa. Their work is focusing on the previously overlooked role that magnesium – the second most abundant metal ion in living cells – plays in the development of disease.
