A core faculty member of Rutgers Global Health Institute as well as SC&I, Rivera investigates how social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp may influence Latinos’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and, ultimately, their health.
By Sam Starnes GSN’04 for Rutgers Magazine.
The Rutgers University RPSO, based at SC&I, is a fun, collegial group of Rutgers students who are working to improve their communicating, public speaking, interviewing, and presenting skills. All students, regardless of their initial level of interest and commitment, are welcome to join, and club members are not required to participate in public speaking competitions.
Their study, Scharp said, suggests that helping the public better understand the complex ways that opioid addiction is environmental, relational, and situational – that it is not simply a personal choice – would be useful, and communicating this idea might be accomplished through the media or other forms of public education.
On Friday, November 11, five SC&I student-athlete alumnae hosted a panel with SC&I faculty and Rutgers Athletics to empower current female students entering the business field.
Assistant Professor Gretchen Stahlman will join Mission Patagonia to pursue a two-pronged research agenda. She will assist AUI in evaluating the program, while pursuing her own research questions focused on how science is conducted in remote locations and how to ensure equitable practices for collecting and managing valuable place-based data.
