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Julien Musolino has a dual appointment in the Psychology Department and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
Rutgers Associate Professor Julien Musolino will speak at the fifth annual 2021 Vatican Conference, a virtual event titled “Exploring the Mind, Body & Soul: Unite to Prevent & Unite to Cure” on May 6-8.
The discussion will focus on the relationship between thought and consciousness in the mind, the brain as part of the physical body and the soul as the spiritual center.
The conference brings together the world’s leading physicians, scientists, leaders of faith, ethicists, patient advocates, policymakers, philanthropists and influencers to engage in conversations on the latest breakthroughs in medicine, health care delivery and prevention, as well as the anthropological outcomes and the cultural impact of technological advances. The event will be moderated by journalists, who will explore the role of religion, faith and spirituality, and the interplay
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Who runs N.J.? It’s still mostly men. Powerful boards lack women, despite Murphy’s pledge for diversity.
Published on May 02, 2021
Some states have laws requiring or encouraging state boards and commissions to have a 50/50 split between men and women. New Jersey is not one of them.
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At her first meeting as a new commissioner of the state Sports and Exposition Authority, Karen Kessler said officials handed her a gift.
It was a men’s necktie.
“What am I supposed to with this?” Kessler recalls saying.
The neckties, featuring the logo of the Sports and Exposition Authority, were given to every member of the powerful board. At the time, it never occurred to anyone that a woman might be a voting member of the board at the public agency that oversees sports arenas and racetracks.
The “aging infrastructure” of the 109-year-old institution and years of “deferred maintenance” have made for this and other decidedly not 21st-century conditions on campus. The university can t afford to pay for upkeep, much less advance its technological capabilities. It has been historically underfunded by the state of Tennessee and shortchanged hundreds of millions of dollars it was owed for at least 50 years.
“I can’t overstress the dramatic effect [the underfunding has] had on TSU,” said Glenda Baskin Glover, president of Tennessee State. “It has severely hampered our student and faculty technology advancements, our ability to recruit academically talented students, to compete with the scholarship offers from other schools that can offer much more competitive scholarship packages. That’s where we are.”
Last year was an extraordinary moment for many historically Black colleges and universities.
HBCUs shared the national spotlight with Vice President Kamala Harris, a Howard University alumna. And as the country grappled with a new racial reckoning in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, some of those schools received high-profile donations.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $160 million to HBCUs and Black college organizations across the country in July 2020. She followed that in December with a $50 million gift to Prairie View A&M University, and an anonymous donor gave Prairie View $10 million in November to help students during the pandemic.
“It’s not surprising that during a moment of national agony on race that minority-serving institutions stand out,” said Ruth Simmons, president of the HBCU, which is part of the Texas A&M System. “We’ve been around since 1876 doing the same work continuously throughout that time. … I think it’s our time to be recognized
J&J blood clot risk is less than 1 in a million. Don’t be skeptical about the vaccine, docs say.
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
Posted Apr 13, 2021
FILE - In this March 25, 2021 file photo, a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is shown in a refrigerator at a clinic in Washington state. AP
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If someone said you had a one in a million chance of winning the lottery, you wouldn’t quit your job as soon as you bought your ticket, right?
Doctors and public health experts in New Jersey are hoping that people keep this context in mind this week after the U.S. government paused vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine to investigate a possible serious side effect.