Rutgers Celebrates Four Award Winners

Rutgers University celebrates Four MacArthur Award Winners.  Two alumni, one professor, and one instructor have received this prestigious award.  The award comes with a 625,000 stipend for use by the recipients without restrictions.  You can learn more at Rutgers University, and you can keep reading more below.


Rutgers Celebrates Four MacArthur Award Winners

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Meet the latest Rutgers "genius grant" winners – a public health historian, two alumni and a distinguished guest instructor in the Rutgers-Camden MFA program. The five-year fellowship by the James D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation comes with a $625,000 stipend for use by the recipients without restrictions.
 
Faculty





Julie Livingston
Julie Livingston, professor, Rutgers Department of History
Livingston specializes in African history and in the history of public health. In her most recent book, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press, 2012), she describes the struggles of patients, families and hospital staff in a cancer ward in Botswana to come to terms with the disease – and its practical and moral implications – in an environment of limited resources. Her work dramatizes the human stakes and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will shape the future of global health. Read more.

Alumni




Jeffrey Brenner
Jeffrey Brenner, graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, now part of Rutgers
Brenner, founder and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, is a primary care physician creating a health care delivery model to meet the medical and social service needs of the most vulnerable citizens in impoverished communities. Determined to improve the lives of the sickest Camden residents, Brenner built a database and geographic mapping of discharge data from all patients at Camden’s hospitals and discovered that very small number of patients consumed a large share of the overall costs of health care and social support. Brenner was an instructor in the RWJMS Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Read more.




Craig Fennie 

Craig Fennie, Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, 2006, Master's in Physics, 2003
Fennie, who is on the faculty of Cornell, is a materials scientist combining the tools of theoretical physics with those of solid-state chemistry to discover new materials with desirable electrical, magnetic and optical properties. Also a researcher at the Energy Materials Center at Cornell, Fennie looks at designing compounds with optical properties that could improve, for example, the efficiency by which materials capture solar energy. Read more.


Distinguished Instructor




Karen Russell

Karen Russell, distinguished guest teacher, Rutgers-Camden Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program
Russell, named one of The New Yorker’s top 20 young writers under age 40, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, Swamplandia! Setting much of her work in the Everglades of her native Florida, she depicts in lyrical, energetic prose an enchanting and forbidding landscape and delves into subcultures rarely encountered in contemporary American literature. This fall, Russell leads three MFA sessions at Rutgers–Camden, where she shares some of her favorite works of fiction in a series of wide-ranging literary discussions. Read More.

Job Searching Tips for Graduates

Are you graduating soon?  Congratulations!  This is a great moment in your life, but job searching can be more scary than entering college.  Check out these great job searching tips for college graduates. It is never too early to start.  These can also help you grab a great internship.  Check out US News and World Report for more information.

1. Don't wait to start job searching. You might be tempted to take a few months off after graduating to relax, but you might not realize how long job searches take. Hiring processes often take months, and getting a job in this market—especially without much experience—may really take a long time. Start actively searching now, since even with a May start, you might not find a job until the fall or later.

2. Include all of your work experience on your résumé. New grads sometimes exclude certain types of work from their résumé, like fast food or retail, figuring that it won't be relevant to the types of jobs they're targeting now. But especially if you don't have much other work experience to show, these sorts of jobs can be key in demonstrating that you know how to deal with customers, show up reliably and that you have a track record of handling paid employment like an adult. Don't shy away from including them.

3. Don't listen to every piece of job-search advice you hear. If your parents or friends are your main source of job-hunt guidance, you might be at a disadvantage. Job-search conventions have changed significantly in the last decade, so your parents might not know what's most effective in the process today. And your friends probably don't have much more experience than you do, so take their suggestions with some skepticism. Seek out more current and reliable sources of advice instead.

4. Don't apply for everything you see. Anxious job seekers sometimes blast off their résumé to every opening they spot, hoping that something will garner them a call-back. But carefully targeting your search to jobs you're truly qualified for—and writing a tailored cover letter for each—will get you far better results than simply aiming for quantity. That said…

5. Broaden your horizons. While you shouldn't apply for everything you see, you also shouldn't be narrow and only willing to consider a very specific role in a very specific field. The reality is, in today's job market you might not have the luxury of being picky about the specific roles you'll take. Open yourself up to a broader range of possibilities, and you might find it easier to find work (and might also discover that you like some of the alternatives that you hadn't originally considered!).

6. Don't think you can't intern just because you're no longer a student. If you're having trouble finding a full-time job—and if you're like a lot of new grads, you might be—don't assume that internships are no longer a possibility. Many internships are open to non-students, and they can be a good way to get experience and give you something to put on your résumé while you continue to search for something full-time. Volunteering can play a similarly useful role as well.

7. Use your network. You might feel pushy reaching out to co-workers at past internships, your parents' friends and other people you know, but it's very normal to do that as part of a job search. At a minimum, make sure that you've alerted your managers from past jobs to the fact that you're now looking—that's a basic and crucial step that far too many new grads overlook.

8. Practice interviewing. You might have been able to get away with occasionally skipping a reading for a class, but job interviews don't work that way: Interviewers will be able to tell whether you prepared or not, and winging it—especially when you don't have much experience interviewing—virtually guarantees that you'll crash and burn. If you prepare ahead of time and practice your answers to likely interview questions, you'll do far better in interviews and dramatically increase your chances of getting an offer.

9. Make sure that your email address, outgoing voice mail message and online presence all portray you as a professional, mature adult, not a partying college student. Employers will form opinions about you based on these things, and the more mature and polished you appear, the better your chances.

10. Don't panic. Your job search might take time, possibly a lot of time. That's pretty common these days. But it doesn't mean that you'll be unemployed forever or living with your parents when you're 45. You will find a job eventually!

Let's Go Knights!

This Saturday the Scarlet Knights are taking on Eastern Michigan at home.  The game will be at 1pm.  Check out all of this great information about the game and series information.  You can learn more about the great Rutgers football team here.

EASTERN MICHIGAN (1-1) at RUTGERS (1-1)
Saturday, September 14 • 1:00 p.m. • ESPN3
High Point Solutions Stadium
Piscataway, N.J.

Radio: Rutgers IMG Sports Network
(710-WOR; 1450-WCTC; 610-WIP)
Live Stats: ScarletKnights.com

Series: First Meeting

 

Saturday's Game • Rutgers looks to move to 2-1 on the season Saturday as the Scarlet Knights host Eastern Michigan (1-1).  • Kickoff is set for 1:04 p.m. with live coverage on ESPN3. Troy Bender (play-by-play), John Gregory (color analyst) and Angela Mallen (sideline) have the call.  • Coverage on the Rutgers IMG Sports Network begins at noon with Chris Carlin (play-by-play), Ray Lucas (color analyst), Eric LeGrand (color analyst) and Anthony Fucilli (sideline) calling the action.  • Eric LeGrand will have has jersey retired at halftime. The special presentation will also be archived on RVision for any fans who are unable to attend Saturday’s game.
Series Information • Rutgers and Eastern Michigan meet for the first time Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium. • The Scarlet Knights are 13-5-1 all-time against Mid-American Conference opponents.  • The last time Rutgers played an opponent from the state of Michigan, the Scarlet Knights defeated Michigan State 19-14 in the 2004 season opener in Piscataway.