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Cynthia Nourse Thompson is a Professor and the Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University. Prior to this position, for six years she was Associate Professor and Director of the graduate programs in Book Arts & Printmaking and Studio Art at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She has also served as Associate Professor and Curator of Exhibitions at University of Arkansas; twelve years as Professor of Book, Print and Paper Arts and Chair of Fine Arts at Memphis College of Art; and additionally worked at Dieu Donné Papermill, Harlan & Weaver Intaglio and Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper now the Brodsky Center at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Dr. Gabe Bermea, visiting scholar at the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions interviews Dr. Nicole Gonzalez, director of the advising resource center at University of Arizona and Lina Anastasovitou, doctoral candidate at National University on the unique experiences of Latino students in higher education. The panel explores the role of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), strategies for retention and completion, and the impact of culturally relevant academic advising.Blue Grit Podcast: The Voice of Texas Law EnforcementHost: Clint McNear and Tyler Owen discussing topics, issues, and stories within the...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySubscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform!The X, Instagram, and Facebook handle for the podcast is @AdvisingPodcastAlso, subscribe to our Adventures in Advising YouTube Channel!You can find Matt on Linkedin.

Join us on Wednesday, October 16 @ 6pm EST for an exciting conversation with passionate advocate for women's advancement and a key advisor for leaders tackling retention and growth challenges, Deepa Purushothaman. With over 20 years at Deloitte, she became the first Indian-American woman to make partner and led the US Women's Initiative. Her acclaimed debut book, The First, The Few, The Only, won multiple awards and was named a Financial Times best business book. Deepa founded re.write, a think tank promoting a new work narrative, and is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. She collaborates with the Aspen Institute on talent discussions and is launching a podcast series called The Leadership Rewrite. As a board member of Avasara and the Rutgers Center for Women in Business, she works to advance women in leadership. A sought-after keynote speaker, Deepa has addressed audiences worldwide, including at the United Nations and Disney. Her TED talks have garnered over 3 million views, and she regularly contributes to the Harvard Business Review. Deepa holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard Kennedy School, and the London School of Economics, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and four pets.

This discussion is with Dr. Imani D. Owens, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.  She studies and teaches African American and Caribbean literature, music, and performance. Her research has been supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies at Princeton University, a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, and an NEH funded residency at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her work has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry, Caribbean Literature in Transition, the Journal of Haitian Studies, MELUS, and small axe salon. She is currently a faculty fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. In this conversation we discuss her book Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean (Columbia University Press: Black Lives in the Diaspora series) where she charts the connection between literary form and anti-imperialist politics in Caribbean and African American texts during the interwar period. 

This week we welcome Robin Merle, author of Involuntary Exit, A Woman's Guide to Thriving After Being Fired, to share her insights. She brings a unique perspective to the conversation, showing how moving past the initial stages of anger and fear, and finding ourselves on a path of self-reflection can turn the experience into a positive one.  It can help us to rediscover our values and remind us of our power and importance.  We also return to a recent topic of networking and Robin shares her unique idea of networking with “intellectual curiosity”.  Letting our curiosity lead the conversation, showing genuine interest in others and their work, can help build meaningful connections.  Learning from being fired involves humility, self-reflection, and a commitment to our own personal growth. Join our Warrior conversation as we chart a path together.   Robin Merle, CFRE is the author of Involuntary Exit, A Woman's Guide to Thriving After Being Fired, which won the 2022 Gold Medal Nonfiction Book Award. She is the President of Robin Merle Associates, LLC, a fundraising consultancy, and the Founder of The Professional Guide which helps senior-level professionals succeed in their career transitions.  A Certified Fundraising Professional (CFRE), she has more than 35 years' experience as a senior executive for billion-dollar nonprofit organizations, raising more than a half-billion dollars primarily for universities and healthcare.   As someone on a mission to help people move forward with their career transitions, Robin coaches executives through the pain points of job loss to rebuild confidence and resilience.  She also coaches Development professionals to succeed in new roles. She is a frequent podcast guest and webinar host and has been a featured speaker at Chief, the Rutgers Center for Women in Business, the Johns Hopkins University Women's Leadership Conference, and AFP-NYC Global.  Robin is a proud graduate of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and graduated from Rutgers College as a member of its first class of women.  (3:25) Robin shares her experiences and path that brought her to write her book.  (7:07) We delve into Robin's book; starting at the beginning that sets the tone for her practical and insightful book.  (10:35) Robin shares why she uses a unique grief model, to help people navigation through being terminated.  (16:58) We discuss advice, one of many, that Robin's offers throughout the book.  (20:12) Robin explains how performance might not be the issue, when someone is terminated.  (22:08) Robin shares her advice on how to discuss a termination in a future interview; preparing for that question and taking the time before jumping back into the arena.  (25:20) Robin's unique take on networking, and its close relationship to being “intellectually curious”. (28:55) A discussion on the triggers and anxiety related to terminations.  (31:43) Robin shares how using affirmations and healthy mindset can move you through this experience.  Connect with Robin Merle https://www.linkedin.com/robinmerletpg/ https://www.theprofessionalguide.com  Subscribe: Warriors At Work PodcastsWebsite: https://jeaniecoomber.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/986666321719033/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanie_coomber/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanie_coomberLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanie-coomber-90973b4/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMZ2HyNNyPoeCSqKClBC_w

Our EJB Talks podcast this week features Joel Cantor⁠, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy and Kathe Newman, Professor and Director of the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement. They are part of a new Rutgers initiative, the Housing and Health Equity Cluster, which aims to address health equity issues through interdisciplinary collaboration across university departments. Professor Newman discusses how, through her urban planning work, she became interested in the connection between lack of affordable housing and poor health. Professor Cantor's research into the health conditions of vulnerable populations utilizing Medicaid was often linked to long-term chronic homelessness. They explain how housing and health issues are deeply intertwined, with one constantly impacting the other in a cycle that is difficult to break. The work of the HHE cluster seeks to better understand these relationships and challenges through data analysis informing policy solutions for a better future for permanent supportive housing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ejbtalks/message

Today's college or university president is expected to be highly influential and effective in their leadership. These higher ed CEOs are expected to positively impact every aspect of their institutions, regardless of size. The employee experience, however, can often be one of the least prioritized areas. How did one of the most respected and recognized presidents in the country work with his faculty and staff? Walter Kimbrough visited “I Wanna Work There!” to talk about how he worked to create a positive talent experience during his presidencies.Here are the takeaways for this episode:We will hear about the importance of establishing a culture from the president's seat.We will learn what it means to communicate honestly with faculty and staff.Walter will share his advice for aspiring presidents to help foster a productive campus work culture. Guest Name: Walter KimbroughGuest Social: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterkimbrough/X (Twitter) - https://twitter.com/HipHopPrezGuest Bio: Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough is the president in residence for the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions and the former president of Dillard University and Philander Smith College (now Philander Smith University). Under his leadership, Dillard's endowment grew 115% and alumni giving increased from 4% to 23%. Dillard also recorded its largest alumni gift, its largest single private donation, a $5 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, and a $5 million gift from Kirkland & Ellis for the university's Center for Racial Justice. Dillard was also noted as one of the nation's top producers of Black physics graduates, and the university's pre-law program averaged over a 90% law school acceptance rate.Prior to Dillard, Walter enjoyed a fulfilling career in student affairs, serving at Emory University, Georgia State University, Old Dominion University, and finally Albany State University in 2000 where he became the vice president for student affairs at the age of 32. At the age of 37, he became the twelfth president of Philander Smith College (now Philander Smith University) where he was given the moniker “Hip Hop Prez” for his skillful use of hip hop culture and music to educate students as well as his effective use of social media for public conversation. His use of social media has been noted in articles by The Chronicle of Higher Education and in Dan Zaiontz's book “#FollowTheLeader: Lessons in Social Media Success from #HigherEd CEOs.” BachelorsDegree.org named him one of 25 college presidents you should follow on Twitter, Education Dive regarded Walter as one of their “10 college presidents on Twitter who are doing it right,” and Josie Ahlquist included him on her list of “25 Higher Education Presidents to Follow on Twitter.” He also captured national attention in 2021 when journalist Malcolm Gladwell interviewed him and featured Dillard on his highly regarded “Revisionist History” podcast.Walter's leadership has earned him numerous honors including:  the coveted Ebony Magazine Power 100 list, The Grio 100: History Makers in the Making, one of TheBestSchools.org's “20 Most Interesting College Presidents,” one of the HBCU Campaign Fund's “10 Most Dominant HBCU Leaders of 2018,” and one of College Cliffs' “50 Top U.S. College and University Presidents” in 2020. In 2021, Walter received a Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, Georgia State.With a background in student affairs, Walter has been recognized for his research and writings on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and African American men in college; and he is regarded as a national expert on historically Black, Latin and Asian fraternities and sororities. He is the author of the book “Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities” and has served as an expert witness in a number of hazing cases. A proud native of Atlanta, Walter earned his Ph.D. in higher education from Georgia State University, his master's from Miami University in Ohio, and his bachelor's from the University of Georgia. He and his wife, Adria Nobles Kimbrough, an attorney, are the proud parents of two children, Lydia Nicole, and Benjamin Barack. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Eddie Francishttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiefrancis/https://twitter.com/eddiefrancisAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:I Wanna Work There is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Confessions of a Higher Ed Social Media Manager and Talking Tactics. Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.Connect with Us at the Engage Summit:Exciting news — many of your favorite Enrollify creators will be at the 2024 Engage Summit in Raleigh, NC, on June 25 and 26, and we'd love to meet you there! Sessions will focus on cutting-edge AI applications that are reshaping student outreach, enhancing staff productivity, and offering deep insights into ROI. Use the discount code Enrollify50 at checkout, and you can register for just $200! Learn more and register at engage.element451.com — we can't wait to see you there!

Antizionist Jewish Historian Zack Foster returns to the show to debunk Zionist propaganda being regurgitated in a viral Newsweek piece. Jen Perelman talks about her decision to run against AIPAC cheerleader Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) for Congress. Daniel Maté and Katie go over the hasbara of the week. Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. He is a Jewish American historian of Palestine who was a zionist until he started studying Palestine. Jen Perelman is a former zionist running against the very zionist Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). She received more than 21,000 votes (nearly 30 percent of the vote) in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. Daniel Maté is a musical theater lyricist, the world's only mental chiropractor, and the co-author of "The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Gabor Maté. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

Katie talks to Skaii, a 15 year old Pro Palestine activist about being silenced by her high school; Jewish anti-zionist historian Zachary Foster about Gaza; and journalist Kevin Gosztola about Julian Assange. Skaii is a student at Walter Johnson HS in MCPS. She is a Marxist activist and do public speaking, rallying, and demonstrations for Palestine. Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. He is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. He is a Jewish American historian of Palestine who was a zionist until he started studying Palestine. Zachary talks about how he saw through the propaganda, the dehumanization of Palestinians, how Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war, the history of Hamas and zionism's antisemitism. Zachary explains why Israel doesn't just harm Palestinians but Jews. Kevin Gosztola Curates The Dissenter at http://TheDissenter.org, is the author of “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange," and co-host of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast. . ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

Richie is joined by Zachary Foster. Zach is a Jewish-American academic who says he was a Zionist until he began studying the history of Palestine. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton) and is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. On today's show Zach discusses the genocide in Gaza and the possibility of peace, how the Israeli lobby operates in Washington, the origins of Palestine itself, Zionism v Judaism, the future for Gaza and more. For more on Zachary Foster, follow these links:https://twitter.com/_ZachFosterhttps://palestinenexus.com/

On today's show, Dr. Zachary Foster discusses the legal and political ramifications of Western support for genocide. GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr. Zachary Foster holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. He operates a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. Website: https://palestinenexus.com/ Twitter/X: @_ZachFoster GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Kristian James is a content creator and researcher based in the UK. You can find him on Twitter/X at https://twitter.com/21KristianJames.

What's Next?  Dr. Christopher Manente, Founding Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services joins Marlee Aversa, Founder and CEO of M&J Games to chat with Shannon about their collaboration on a new game called “What's Next?”  This unique game has much to offer individuals on the Spectrum, tune in to hear the full details. In Jargon of the day Shannon explains Idiosyncratic Language

On today's show, Dr Zachary Foster discusses Palestine, Hamas and Israel. GUEST OVERVIEW: Dr Zachary Foster has a Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and he is a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights. He runs a digital archive called Palestine Nexus and writes a newsletter called Palestine, in Your Inbox. https://palestinenexus.com/ X: @_ZachFoster

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In episode 82, we chat with Dr. Gabe Bermea, lecturer at Sam Houston State University and visiting scholar with the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions about the rise of artificial intelligence powered technologies and its connections to higher education, specifically academic advising. Can AI help advisors have more transformational conversations with students? What skills do advisors need working with AI?The Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook handle for the podcast is @AdvisingPodcastCheck out and bookmark the Adventures in Advising website!Also, subscribe to our Adventures in Advising YouTube Channel!You can find Matt on Linkedin.

In this conversation we welcome Dr. Nazia Kazi to the podcast. Dr. Nazia Kazi is an anthropologist and educator based in Philadelphia. Her work explores the role of Islamophobia and racism in the context of global politics.  She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stockton University in New Jersey, where she teaches courses on race, ethnicity, immigration, and Islam in the U.S. She is the author of Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics. Kazi is also a faculty affiliate of the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights.  This episode came about in response to the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, which should be widely understood as a crime against humanity and an egregious violation of even the most basic application of international and human rights law. We invited Dr. Kazi on the show to discuss how US media continues to cover this war, and the broader so-called “War on Terror” over 20 years later. Kazi demystifies some of the liberal multicultural discussion of Islamophobia and examines a more complex history of the US's relationship to Islam specifically by looking at CIA operations. She also examines the impact of post-9/11 policy making on government surveillance, the political expressions of Muslims in the US, inclusionary nonprofit politics, and extrajudicial political repression.  We also discuss what it is that we are to #neverforget when it comes to 9/11 and how mainstream media and K-12 education have been a part of a political assault on both historical and political analysis around that day and around the impacts of the “war on terror” on politics and state repression both domestically and internationally. And if you like what we do bringing you conversations like this every week then please become a patron of the show. Our show is 100% funded by our patrons and you can become one for as little as $1 a month. We're just 8 patrons away from hitting our goal for the month. So sign up and become a patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism    Links: How the 'war on terror' obscures America's alliance with right-wing Islam What We Forget by Nazia Kazi and Anuj Shrestha Dr. Nazia Kazi's website Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics (Updated) By Nazia Kazi

Rutgers center Cliff Omoruyi and his guardian Muhammad Oliver of the Salvation Army Newark Westside Basketball program join SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about the basketball stars rise from Nigeria to possibly the NBA

Episode: 0029 Title:  Risk Terrain Modelling- Dr. Joel Caplan teaches us everything we need to know  Release Date:  23rd of March 2023  Podcast Writer: Paige Keningale  Theme Song: Wolf Moon- Unicorn Heads.  Voice overs: Dr Susanne Knabe-nicol aka the Police Science Dr Podcast Email: podcasts@acia.org.uk  Podcast Webpage: https://www.acia.org.uk/Podcasts ,  https://www.leapodcasts.com/  Podcast Social Media: Twitter: ACIA_org,  LinkedIn: Association of Crime and Intelligence Analysts (UK).  Bio:  Joel Caplan helps cities and towns prevent crime and improve community policing. He helps them make data-informed decisions about policies and programs that enhance public safety. Dr. Caplan is a Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) and serves as Director of the SCJ Master's Program and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security (RCPS). He specializes in GIS mapping and crime pattern analysis, and co-developed Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), a spatial diagnostic technique that connects environmental features to crime locations. RTM helps people develop the best strategies for crime deterrence and prevention.  Dr. Caplan has professional experience as a police officer, 9-1-1 dispatcher and emergency medical technician. His research on communities, crime and policing empowers multiple stakeholders with evidence to maximize resources and create safer and more secure environments. Dr. Caplan has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and two books, “Risk-Based Policing: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention with Big Data and Spatial Analytics” (2018) and “Risk Terrain Modeling: Crime Prevention and Risk Reduction” (2016). He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2008) and is also a proud alumnus of Rutgers University (2004).  

Accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia tend to spark and exacerbate divisions in our world. Amanda and Holly discuss two recent controversies that featured accusations of religious bias: The removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar from a congressional committee and a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad shown in an art history class. They look at the under-discussed parts of these controversies, implications for the future, and how we balance the right to religious belief and expression with respect for others' beliefs.   SHOW NOTES Segment 1 (starting at 00:55): A vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from a congressional committee Holly and Amanda discussed this article by Karoun Demirjian in The New York Times: House Ousts Ilhan Omar From Foreign Affairs Panel as G.O.P. Exacts Revenge Amanda read a statement from former Rep. John Yarmuth via Twitter.   Segment 2 (starting at 11:39): A professor, ancient art and campus controversy Amanda and Holly discussed this in-depth article by Vimal Patel in The New York Times on the controversy at Hamline University: A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job. For more on blasphemy laws and BJC's work against them: BJC and others speak out against blasphemy laws, covering a congressional briefing in 2018 U.S. House Supports International Religious Freedom Resolution by the Rev. Jennifer Hawks, associate general counsel at BJC Article 18 of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights Read the lawsuit filed by professor Erika López Prater, Ph.D., at this link. Holly and Amanda mentioned this article by Yonat Shimron in Religion News Service: Hamline University retracts ‘Islamophobia' charge as instructor sues   Segment 3 (starting at 31:12): What have we learned from these controversies?  Holly mentioned a program called “Protecting Academic Freedom, Empowering Muslim Students After the Hamline Controversy,” led by Rutgers Law Professor Sahar Aziz for the Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. It is available to watch on YouTube. Amanda mentioned this open letter from Muslims for Progressive Values. Respecting Religion is made possible by BJC's generous donors. You can support these conversations with a gift to BJC. 

Our expectations of leadership are masculine, when we evaluate men's potential, we are much more likely to see them as a good fit. Women do not meet our masculine expectations, therefore the projection is never triggered. This male bias in our cognitive processing of leadership potential is powerful. “Think manager, think male” means we can fail to see women's leadership potential. In fact, research suggests that men and women behave very similarly in senior roles, but men routinely receive higher leadership ratings. On today's podcast, Lisa S. Kaplowitz, Executive Director at Rutgers Center for Women in Business will be joining us to discuss the harmful ways women have to change themselves to fit the ideal worker image, and organizations that devalue anyone who differs from it. In an article for Harvard Business Review entitled, 5 Harmful Ways Women Feel They Must Adapt in Corporate America Lisa and two co-authors share findings from their research, Lisa outlines what these adaptations are and why they are ultimately harmful. She also leaves us with some actions to implement into our workplaces in order to bridge the gap in the devaluing of difference:   Action One: Be aware – Know what an ideal worker looks like when they show up in your workplace.   Action Two: Ask – Do not assume.  Ask an employee how you can support them, what additional resources they might need and what help they may need to advance in their career or to get a project to completion.   Action Three: Ensure interactions are authentic, genuine and informal conversations.   Action Four: Give feedback.  Honest feedback, without sugar coating.  Allow feedback to be a conversation where all can have their say.   Rutgers Center for Women in Business   Lisa S Kaplowitz

Town Square with Ernie Manouse airs at 3 p.m. CT. Tune in on 88.7FM, listen online or subscribe to the podcast. Join the discussion at 888-486-9677, questions@townsquaretalk.org or @townsquaretalk. Día de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead”), is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and various Latin American countries from November first through second, in which the lives of deceased relatives are honored and remembered by their loved ones. Families will make home altars and place ofrendas, or offerings, of their deceased loved one's favorite foods, drinks, and mementos to honor and celebrate their memory, as opposed to mourning them. Our panel of experts explain the cultural, historical, and spiritual significance of Día de los Muertos and give context to the various traditional items associated with the holiday such as calaveras, marigold flowers, and pan de muerto. For more information on Day of the Dead and it's history in the U.S., Dr. Regina Marchi's book, Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon, is a great resource. To learn more about Mexican and Mexican-American traditions, visit Casa Ramirez for their annual celebration of Día de los Muertos which features altars, folk art, jewelry, and paintings from local Mexican artists. For more information, click here.   If you're interested in pan de muerto, visit an Arandas Bakery location near you. Guests: Dr. Regina Marchi Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University Affiliated Professor, Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies Author, Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon Carlos Aguilar Former Broadcast Journalist Media Literacy Teacher at Sharpstown High School Casa Ramirez Folk Art Gallery Emcee Ricardo Hernandez Director of Operations, Arandas Bakery - Beechnut location Town Square with Ernie Manouse is a gathering space for the community to come together and discuss the day's most important and pressing issues. We also offer a free podcast here, on iTunes, and other apps

Episode 37:  Title IX and Director of Toilets   Lisa Kaplowitz is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Women in Business, and assistant professor of finance at Rutgers Business School, where she leverages 25+ years of experience as an investment banker and CFO. Lisa is also a restless champion for gender equality and her work has been featured on Bloomberg TV and in USA Today, Forbes, CFO Magazine and Bloomberg.com. Lisa's advocacy began as a scholar-athlete at Brown University, when she was part of a landmark Title IX case that added more varsity athletic opportunities for women. Today, she continues to champion gender equity at work and in the home, alongside her husband and teenage sons, where you can see them in action in her latest TEDx, “Advancing Women in the Workplace, One Son at a Time.” Podcast sponsor:  William and Lauren If you want to see if it's a good fit to work with Jen V. and JRT on speaking courageously as a leader, schedule a free call: https://www.voicefirstworld.com/apply

It is the beginning of Fall and we can't get over the Pumpkin spice lattes! But is there a reason we love fall so much? We tell you in Therapy Thursday. Also, is Donald Trump and his family finally going to go down for a crime? Attorney Paula Canny breaks down the latest suit. Plus so much more!    Special guests: John McGann - The Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and a Professor of Behavioral & Systems Neuroscience at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Paula Canny - Attorney 

Lance Gregory, Environmental Health Division Director with the Virginia Department of Health, discusses Septic Smart Week and the demand for the agency's Septic and Well Assistance Program; Joel Cantor, Director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, explains a project to study population health concerns in New Jersey; and this week is also Falls Prevention Awareness Week. ASTHO Blog Article: Promoting Successful Onsite Wastewater Treatment Programs Health IT Analytics Webpage: NJ Launches Statewide Population Health Data Project Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Webpage: Integrated Population Health Data Project Falls Free Checkup Webpage

#womenshealth #ONEHEALTH #Rutgers #OBGYN #earthscience #animalhealth CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN WE THE SPECIES NEW: GLORIA BACHMANN MD, RWJMS Prof OB GYN, Dir, Women's Health Institute Rutgers RWJ Med School; ONE HEALTH (NJ 1st State to legislate) Human Health, Animal Health, Earth Sciences. ONE HEALTH = FUTURE THINK YouTube: 161 Interviews. GLOBAL #womenshealth #ONEHEALTH #Rutgers #OBGYN #earthscience #animalhealth PLEASE SUBSCRIBE (You'll find ‘almost' any subject interview) https://www.youtube.com/c/ConversationswithCalvinWetheSpecIEs ** CONTACT: WOMEN'S HEALTH INSTITUTE(WHI) https://rwjms.rutgers.edu/institutes/womens-health-institute/contact-us ** DR BACHMANN BIO: A leading expert in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Gloria Bachmann MD, MMS, RWJMS Pro of Obstetrics & Gynecology & Associate Dean for Women Health: a recognized leader clinically, academically and scientifically on international, national, state-wide & community-wide basis. As a Rutgers faculty member respected for her many contributions to all of the missions of Rutgers, she was elected by her peers to serve on Rutgers Univ Senate, and by Senate members to serve on Rutgers Univ Senate Executive Committee. She is also Chair of the RWJMS Bylaws Committee & an active member of RWJMS A&P Committee and Research Committee. At RWJUH-NB, in addition to being Medical Director of the PROUD Gender Center of NJ, she is the gynecologist for Executive Health Program. ONE HEALTH (FUTURE THINK): https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-inspires-establishment-new-jersey-one-health-task-force NJ became first state to legislate a “One Health Task Force,” which promotes communication between state agencies and scientists who study human health, animal health and the earth sciences. The law is based on Rutgers One Health Steering Committee, which was started in 2016 by Gloria Bachmann, director of Women's Health Institute at Rutgers RWJ Medical School, Amy Papi, a volunteer at Women's Health Institute and Sona Jasani, an instructor at the Rutgers RWJ Medical School. Dr. Bachmann and NJ One Health steering committee member Dr. Dina Fonseca, director of the Rutgers Center for Vector Biology, discuss Rutgers' role in establishing this state Task Force and how the One Health initiative will address emerging diseases. What is the One Health initiative? Bachmann: “One Health, which recognizes that human health is connected to the health of animals and the environment, is a global concept promulgated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. However, NJ is first state to sign legislation creating a One Health Task Force to prevent, monitor and control zoonotic and environmental public health threats” The NJ One Health Task Force will create channels of communication between human, animal and environment health professionals, scientists and state officials. ** AUDIO: SPOTIFY http://spoti.fi/3bMYVYW GOOGLE PODCASTS http://bit.ly/38yH3yP PLEASE SUBSCRIBE (You'll find ‘almost' any subject interview) #infertility #filmmaking #nutrition #womenshealth #climatechange #singersongwriter #comedy #adoption #dyslexia #bullying ** CLIMATE UPDATE: Latest IPCC climate change report finds 'irreversible' impact of global warming IT'S N0W OR NEVER: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its second chapter on the impact of climate change. Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply "irreversible," the UN's latest assessment found. ** CLIMATE OPTIMISTS (Everything NOT fine) Panel: YOUTH and CLIMATE CHANGE and Beyond. Sat. June 4 2022 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gfrjdV9t

On this Juneteenth Weekend, Dr. Stephanie Krusemark, co-host of the AdmitIt podcast, sits down with Dr. Marybeth Gasman to discuss the history of race and culture embedded within the minority serving institutions in the United States. We discuss the positive impact these institutions have on student success, the realistic challenges of their survival and ability to thrive, and why it's important to advocate for their sustainability within the larger higher education ecosystem of colleges and universities in the United States and globally. Dr. Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice, and the Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Rutgers University. RESOURCESPublications by Dr. GasmanDoing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022). Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority Serving Institutions. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). Relevant Context MaterialConsider a College With a Focus on Minority Students, U. S. News and World Report Minority Serving Institutions, American Council on Education  Education Dept. Delivers $1.4 Billion in Stimulus Funds to Minority-Serving Institutions, AACRAOBiden Unveils FY 2023 Budget Blueprint, AACRAO

One hundred years ago, homes were primarily places for people to live, and weren't considered as investments. Most Americans acquired wealth through income, and homes were only partially an investment consideration. For many reasons since the Great Depression, home ownership has begun to play a larger role than income in carrying generational wealth for Americans. “Housing has become (more of) a financial investment, not a place where you live,” Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn states in this latest episode of Upzoned. “And that changes everything about how we deal with housing.” Those changes include the role of institutional investors, who have become a much more significant player in many housing markets.  Upzoned host Abby Kinney and Marohn, her regular guest, talk over an article about research done by the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). The study found corporate investors in Newark, New Jersey, now own nearly half of Newark's residential property, the highest rate in the nation, researchers said.  Dig into the details of this discussion and hear an early notice about an upcoming Strong Towns book on housing on this week's Upzoned. Additional Show Notes “Who Owns Newark? City Fights Back Against Corporate Home Buying Spree,” by Eric Kiefer, Patch (May 2022). Abby Kinney (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom.

Making Space for Queer Students at an HBCU This final episode of Collegeland takes us to North Carolina Central University, a Historically Black College and University, where we talk with three people who have been critical to developing the LGBTA Resource Center. Co-hosted by Lisa Levenstein and Tiffany Holland, the episode highlights the importance of dedicated spaces for queer students on college campuses. Our guests discuss the challenges and the joys involved in carving out space for difficult conversations and fostering supportive communities. About our Guests: Jennifer Williams serves as the Director of the Women's Center at North Carolina Central University. She formerly served as the Associate Director for Diversity & Inclusion, and the Program Coordinator of the LGBTA Resource Center at NCCU, where she also teaches. She came to NCCentral in 2013 for a dual Masters in Clinical Mental Health and Career Counseling. She completed her studies in 2016. Amber Esters is the Education Coordinator at the NCCU Women's Center. She graduated from NCCU with a BA in Public Health Education in 2014 and received her MA in Women's and Gender Studies from UNC Greensboro in 2019. Eric Martin is a former Lavender-Liaison and the current LGBTA Resource Center Coordinator and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion staff at NCCU. Eric earned his BS in Psychology in 2020 and his MS in Higher Education Administration in 2022 at NCCU. For more information about the resources and programming provided by LGBTA Resource Center check out their website. Looking to learn more about how HBCUs have cultivated cultures of LGBTQ+ inclusion, this recent study from Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation examines and highlights institutions that are doing exemplary work related to increasing LGBTQ+ student support. For more information on HBCUs America and the threat of recent funding cuts discussed in this episode see this recent HBCU policy report. And for suggestions and resources on how to better support them check out this article.

On this episode of EJBTalks, Stuart welcomes Jennifer Senick, Executive Director of Rutgers Center for Green Building. Jennifer discusses many aspects of "green buildings" from the design of the physical space to all of the components of its total operation. The two delve into topics from the New Jersey Zero Energy roadmap and the center's integral work with the New England Energy Efficiency Partnership, to what zero net emissions would look like in buildings, and how public policy could work in favor of more green and better building practices. Jennifer also discusses her field work mostly concentrating in low to moderate income neighborhoods and environmental justice communities where we see the most critical need for green building, affordable housing and community health. Tune in for this and more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ejbtalks/message

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

“We all have things to learn when it comes to these diversity-related issues or issues of identity. We have so much to learn. Just because, let's say, you're a person of color, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to be accepting of transgender individuals. You might have some real hangups. Or you could be transgender and have some hangups around people of color, all around the spectrum. You can be a woman who doesn't support women. You can be a woman who doesn't support women trans-women. There are all of these kinds of things that I think we have to be open to, and we have to be open to learning and also open to making mistakes because sometimes people are going to make mistakes around these issues. And this just goes back to the whole benefit of diversity. So one of the reasons why I feel that I benefit so much from the people that I work with is because they are so diverse in many ways, and they are open to talking and interacting and making sure that you're up to speed.” Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair, a Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers University. Her areas of expertise include U.S. history, HBCUs, racism, philanthropy, and leadership. She is the author or editor of 30 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019), and Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022). She is Executive Director of Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. · www.marybethgasman.net· Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice & Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: https://proctor.gse.rutgers.edu/

Professor Yuliya Guseva, Head of the Blockchain and Fintech Program, which is part of the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, joins Interim Co-Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor to discuss her work and research in cryptoasset regulation. Join the CCLG for its Symposium on Regulation of Cryptoassets, Wednesday, February 16, 2022. You can register at go.rutgers.edu/crypto2022. The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Production Manager: Margaret McCarthy Series Producer: Nate Nakao Editor: Nate Nakao --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

Season 2 of American Muslim Project kicks off with Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law and Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. She is also the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights. Sahar joins AMP to talk about her new book, "The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom." About the Book: "Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz's groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America's aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America's demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation's future." Visit the Center for Security, Race, and Rights: https://csrr.rutgers.edu/ Buy the book at the University of California Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382299/the-racial-muslim Or at Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-racial-muslim-sahar-f-aziz/1139114859 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Douglas K. Chia is the sole owner and President of Soundboard Governance LLC and a Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance.   Mr. Chia was previously Executive Director of The Conference Board ESG Center and continues to contribute to The Conference Board as a Senior Fellow.  He is also a Fellow at the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, Advisor to Foresight BoardOps, and Advisory Board Member of the ESG Professionals Network and PracticalESG.com.Tune into today's episode as Mr. Chia and I talk about the different role(s) that a board can play in ensuring the success and growth of corporate governance.  Key takeaways:Why board members should interact and communicate more with lower-ranked employees. The role of a board in administering and overseeing organizational change. The importance of verifying information that is sourced from management. Personnel and resource management. Why CEOs that are sourced and promoted from within an organization tend to perform well.  Connect with Mr. ChiaLinkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchia/ Website - https://www.soundboardgovernance.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dougchia Learn more about Project Genetics at https://projectgenetics.com/

Penny Lane gave up months of wages and weeks of her life to have her kidney cut out and given to someone she never knew, and who may never thank her. She is one of about 200 people in the US a year who give up a kidney altruistically. What motivates someone to do that? Evolutionary psychologist Michael McCullough believes that not only is there true altruism amongst the human species, but that it is a unique trait, an emerging and spreading trait, and it is selected for by evolution, even out-competing the more familiar traits of selfishness that drive evolution in other species. And the trait is responsible for moral progress in the world. Barry is skeptical, and calls friend of the show Kieran Setiya to talk him out of his skepticism, only to discover that, in many ways, humans are even worse than he thought. We may have evolved to demand altruism from others, but not be altruistic ourselves. This episode brought you by Scribd and Inkl. Get an enormous library of books, magazines, podcasts, and audiobooks. Try Scribd for 60 days free. try.scribd.com/hiphi Unlock reliable news sources from their paywalled sites, The Economist, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and 100 more, a $12,000 annual value for just $75 the first year. Go to inkl.com/philosophy to get this deal. God and the Space-time Manifold is a summer seminar at Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion June 13-24th, 2022. Twelve philosophers will lead discussions about God and the philosophy of time. They are looking for applicants. All professional philosophers and graduate students qualify. Sign up for Slate Plus, to receive ad-free version of this podcast and unlimited access to Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penny Lane gave up months of wages and weeks of her life to have her kidney cut out and given to someone she never knew, and who may never thank her. She is one of about 200 people in the US a year who give up a kidney altruistically. What motivates someone to do that? Evolutionary psychologist Michael McCullough believes that not only is there true altruism amongst the human species, but that it is a unique trait, an emerging and spreading trait, and it is selected for by evolution, even out-competing the more familiar traits of selfishness that drive evolution in other species. And the trait is responsible for moral progress in the world. Barry is skeptical, and calls friend of the show Kieran Setiya to talk him out of his skepticism, only to discover that, in many ways, humans are even worse than he thought. We may have evolved to demand altruism from others, but not be altruistic ourselves. This episode brought you by Scribd and Inkl. Get an enormous library of books, magazines, podcasts, and audiobooks. Try Scribd for 60 days free. try.scribd.com/hiphi Unlock reliable news sources from their paywalled sites, The Economist, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, and 100 more, a $12,000 annual value for just $75 the first year. Go to inkl.com/philosophy to get this deal. God and the Space-time Manifold is a summer seminar at Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion June 13-24th, 2022. Twelve philosophers will lead discussions about God and the philosophy of time. They are looking for applicants. All professional philosophers and graduate students qualify. Sign up for Slate Plus, to receive ad-free version of this podcast and unlimited access to Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this inaugural episode of the BEST Podcast, I'm joined by Lyneir Richardson to discuss Patient Capital and the NJ BEST Patient Capital Fund. With financial support secured from M&T Bank and the Surdna Foundation, The NJ BEST Patient Capital Fund will deploy $250,000 - $500,000 of non-dilutive capital – specifically, recoverable grants $25,000 to $50,000 – to provide patient capital to black entrepreneurs. Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://thebestpodcast.substack.com/welcome

Co-Dean Kimberly Mutcherson is joined by the new interim co-dean Rose Cuison-Villazor, who founded the Rutgers Center for Immigration Law, Policy, and Justice, and is a nationally renowned scholar with an active record in social justice issues; and the new vice dean Anjum Gupta, who is the Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic and teaches non-clinical courses in refugee law and professional responsibility. Read more about Rutgers Law School's new leadership team. The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Production Manager: Margaret McCarthy Series Producer: Nate Nakao Editor: Nate Nakao --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

En este episodio nuestros conductores Pablo Contreras y Viviana Ponce de León conversan del poder constituyente con Jorge Contesse, Director del Rutgers Center for Transnational Law.

Valarie Vest is a First Vice President of Fiduciary Services at CambridgeInvestment Research, Inc. She is also a Mindset Coach for Women inLeadership. Valarie is currently leading efforts at Cambridge in Fiduciary Services, and is amember of the Growth Leadership Committee.In this episode of INSIGHTS we discuss Valarie's path, aspiration and passionfor developing women in leadership. We also discuss the unique platform andpurpose of Cambridge Investment Research.Valarie Vest joined Cambridge in 2018 and has over 20 years of experience inthe financial services industry. Vest is responsible for the collaborativeoversight, development, and support of the Fiduciary Services department.Prior to joining Cambridge, she held leadership roles in relationshipmanagement and retirement and investment product marketing at PrincipalFinancial Group. Valarie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from theUniversity of Washington and completed additional coursework at StrayerUniversity and Rutgers Center for Innovation Education. Additionally, she holdsthe FINRA Series 7, 24, and 66 licenses.Strategic Business Leader ~ Mindset Coach for Women Leaders ~ InnovativeThinker ~ Constant Learner ~ Community Builder Valarie VestContact Information:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/valvesteMail: val@valarievest.comTwitter: VestValAlma Mater:University of Washington

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Professor Sahar Aziz discuss how the American government treated Muslims and reacted to the attack on 9/11. They talk about how the U.S government used 9/11 as an excuse to expand their power and abuse it on Muslims, knowing there would be no repercussions. They talk about how the government was able to do whatever they wanted to Muslims because Muslim Americans are weak and had no political power. Muslims were an easy target for the U.S. government. And whether the government still runs these sting operations on Muslims, also how people easily believed that Muslims were dangerous. Professor Sahar even gives examples of how these sting operations would go down. And how US agents would manipulate young Muslim Americans into becoming terrorists and/or join ISIS. They discuss Trump and the Republican base inciting hate for Muslims and Islam, and why they decided to sign the Muslim Ban. But how America sells billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia and is in its bets interest to be allies with Egypt, so Trump kept them off the Muslim ban. They also talk about how the CIA would Kidnapped and Outsource torture to Saudi Arabia and Egypt and why that is. Is Democracy and Islam Morally exclusive? Professor Sahar Aziz gives her perspective on how Muslims have been taught an over simplified and grandiose look at Islam that does not fit the reality and complexity and richness of Islamic history. Also what is Diaspora and what that Diasporas current situation is Find Out More About Professor Sahar Aziz Here: https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277 Sahar Aziz's scholarship examines the intersections of national security, race, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the U.S. She is a recipient of the Derrick Bell award from the American Association of Law Schools and served as a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution-Doha. Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. Professor Aziz's scholarship adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine intersections of national security, race, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the U.S. Her research also investigates the relationship between authoritarianism, terrorism, and rule of law in Egypt. She is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu). She is also a faculty affiliate of the African American Studies Department at Rutgers University-Newark and a member of the Rutgers-Newark Chancellor's Commission on Diversity and Transformation. Professor Aziz is an editor for the Arab Law Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Professor Aziz teaches courses on national security, critical race theory, Islamophobia, evidence, torts, and Middle East law.

A natural food supplement may relieve anxiety Weizmann Institute of Science, May 24, 2021 A natural food supplement reduces anxiety in mice, according to a new Weizmann Institute of Science study. The plant-derived substance, beta-sitosterol, was found to produce this effect both on its own and in synergic combination with an antidepressant known under the brand name Prozac. If these findings, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, are confirmed in clinical trials, they could point the way toward the use of beta-sitosterol as a treatment for relieving anxiety in humans. Anxiety is not always a bad thing. In fact, in evolutionary terms, feeling anxious about potential threats is critical for survival because it helps us mount an appropriate response. That's precisely why developing antianxiety drugs is so challenging. The circuits for anxiety in the brain are closely related to those responsible for memory, awareness and other functions vital for handling danger, so scientists are on the lookout for compounds that can selectively suppress anxiety without causing unwanted side effects. The starting point for the present study was research conducted several years ago in the lab of Prof. Mike Fainzilber in Weizmann's Biomolecular Sciences Department. Dr. Nicolas Panayotis and other lab members studied the roles of proteins that shuttle cargoes into the nuclei of nerve cells, and they discovered that in stressful situations, mice lacking a shuttling protein known as importin alpha-five showed less anxiety than the control mice. The researchers then checked how these 'calmer' mice differed from regular ones in terms of gene expression, and they identified a genetic signature of their calmness: about 120 genes with a characteristic pattern of expression in the hippocampus, one of the brain regions that regulate anxiety. In the new study, Panayotis, now a senior intern in Fainzilber's lab, together with colleagues, searched an international genomic database for existing drugs or other compounds that might mimic the same gene expression signature. He identified five candidates and tested their effects on behavior in mice. That was how the researchers zeroed in on beta-sitosterol, a plant substance sold as a dietary supplement intended mainly to reduce cholesterol levels. In a series of behavioral experiments, mice given beta-sitosterol showed much less anxiety than the controls. They were, for example, less fearful than the controls when placed in an illuminated enclosure, daring to walk into its brightly lit center, whereas regular mice were careful to stay on the darker periphery, avoiding the stress of the bright light. Moreover, the mice receiving beta-sitosterol did not exhibit any of the side effects that might be expected from antianxiety medications—their locomotion was not impaired, and they did not refrain from exploring novel stimuli. Next, the researchers tested the effects of beta-sitosterol on mice when given in combination with fluoxetine, a drug belonging to the class of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and sold under the brand name Prozac, among others. The combination had a synergistic effect: Both beta-sitosterol and fluoxetine reduced the anxiety of mice at lower doses when given together, compared with the doses needed to produce the same effect when they were administered separately. "One of the major problems with existing antianxiety medications is that they produce side effects, so if beta-sitosterol could help cut down the dosage of such medications, it might potentially also reduce the unwanted side effects," Panayotis says. A great advantage of beta-sitosterol is that it is naturally present in a variety of edible plants, and it is thought to be safe, as it has been marketed for years as a nutraceutical. It is found in particularly large concentrations in avocados, but also in pistachios, almonds and other nuts, in canola oil, in various grains and cereals and more. However, this does not mean that eating avocado can induce a calming effect, since it doesn't contain enough beta-sitosterol. "You'd need to eat avocado day and night to get the right dose—and you would be more likely to develop digestive problems than relieve your anxiety," Panayotis says. The precise mechanism of beta-sitosterol's effect on anxiety remains to be revealed, but the scientists did find that the expression of several genes known to be activated in stressful situations was reduced in mice given the supplement. They also found that these mice had changes in the levels of certain metabolites and neurotransmitters in brain areas involved in anxiety. Since the study focused on brain regions and neural pathways that are involved in regulating anxiety in both mice and humans, it is likely that the findings will apply to humans as well. This will, however, require further clinical testing. As Fainzilber points out: "There's a need for a clinical trial to test the use of beta-sitosterol for reducing anxiety in humans. Until then, we recommend that people consult their physicians before taking the supplement for this purpose."   Benfotiamine, vitamin B derivative, intake associated with reduced progression of cognitive decline Weil Cornell Medicine, May 20, 2021 A randomized phase II trial reported in 2020 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease resulted in positive effects among individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or mild Alzheimer’s dementia who were given capsules that contained benfotiamine, a derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1).  The trial included 70 cognitively impaired men and women who received physical examinations and completed the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) prior to enrollment. Prospective candidates received positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scans of the brain to confirm the presence of amyloid plaques that are characteristic of Alzheimer disease) and other general blood tests, an electrocardiogram and neurological exam prior to enrollment. Screening tests commonly used to test for diabetes were also performed prior to enrollment, and participants were required to have a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) of less than 8% and/or a fasting glucose of less than 200 milligrams per deciliter to be enrolled in the trial. APOE genotype was determined upon enrollment in the trial. The presence of one or two copies of the APOE4 variant of the APOE gene is associated with a greater risk of Alzheimer disease in comparison with APOE2 or APOE3. Blood testing conducted at the beginning and end of the trial measured levels of vitamin B1 and advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), which are formed when fats or proteins react with sugar in the blood. (Research suggests that AGEs are predictive of long-term decline in cognition-related daily living performance in Alzheimer disease patients.) Participants also underwent fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (FDG PET) at these time points to assess brain glucose utilization which, when reduced, is associated with cognitive decline. Cognitive tests, including the Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale, Clinical Dementia Rating and others were administered at the beginning of the study and at varying time points thereafter. Participants received capsules containing 300 milligrams benfotiamine or a placebo twice daily for one year.  At the end of the treatment period, thiamine levels were significantly elevated in the benfotiamine-intake group. The 12 month increase in Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale scores (indicating increased cognitive dysfunction) was lower among those who received benfotiamine compared to the placebo group. Benfotiamine intake participants additionally experienced 77% less deterioration in Clinical Dementia Rating scores compared to the placebo group; however, the effect seen with benfotiamine was stronger among participants who did not have the APOE4 variant. Benfotiamine was also associated with a significant reduction in the increase in AGEs compared to the placebo, which again was stronger in noncarriers of APOE4. FDG PET data suggested that participants without APOE4 were more responsive to benfotiamine intake. “Benfotiamine is safe and cost effective, and the results of this pilot study are encouraging, providing preliminary evidence of efficacy,” authors Gary E. Gibson of Weil Cornell Medicine and colleagues concluded. “Our next step is to propose a larger clinical trial appropriately powered to replicate our findings. We believe that further studies would be very valuable to determine whether benfotiamine may be helpful in delaying onset or treating Alzheimer disease.”   '45 is the new 50' as age for colorectal cancer screening is lowered Dana Farber Cancer Institute, May 21, 2021 BOSTON - Prompted by a recent alarming rise in cases of colorectal cancer in people younger than 50, an independent expert panel has recommended that individuals of average risk for the disease begin screening exams at 45 years of age instead of the traditional 50.  The guideline changes by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), published in the current issue of JAMA, updates its 2016 recommendations and aligns them with those of the American Cancer Society, which lowered the age for initiation of screening to 45 years in 2018. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable malignancies, owing to its long natural history of progression and the availability of screening tests that can intercept and detect the disease early. Overall incidence of CRC in individuals 50 years of age and older has declined steadily since the mid-1980s, largely because of increased screening and changing patterns of modifiable risk factors. "A concerning increase in colorectal cancer incidence among younger individuals (ie, younger than 50 years; defined as young-onset colorectal cancer) has been documented since the mid-1990s, with 11% of colon cancers and 15% of rectal cancers in 2020 occurring among patients younger than 50 years, compared with 5% and 9%, respectively, in 2010," said Kimmie Ng, MD, MPH, first author of an editorial in JAMA accompanying the article about the guideline change of the USPSTF. Ng is the director of the Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.  The causes of the increase in young-onset CRC aren't currently known.  Lowering the recommended age to initiate screening "will make colorectal cancer screening, which is so important, available to millions more people in the United States, and hopefully many more lives will be saved by catching colorectal cancer earlier, as well as by preventing colorectal cancer," said Ng. The USPSTF is an independent panel of experts funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It systematically reviews the evidence of effectiveness of preventive services and develops recommendations. American health insurance groups are required to cover, at no charge to the patient, any service that the USPSTF recommends with a grade A or B level of evidence, regardless of how much it costs. The task force recommendation means that insurers will be required to cover preventive procedures such as colonoscopies and stool tests designed to detect colon cancer in early stages. The task force selected age 45 based on research showing that initiating screening at that age averted more early deaths than starting at age 50, with a relatively small increase in the number of colonoscopy complications. There is no change to the USPSTF 2016 recommendation to only selectively screen individuals aged 76 to 85, as research shows only small increases in life-years gained. The accompanying JAMA editorial asked rhetorically whether the age of screening should be lowered even younger than age 45. While the majority of young-onset CRC diagnoses and deaths occurs in persons 45 to 49, the rate of increase in young-onset CRC is actually steepest in the very youngest patients. Colon cancer incidence is increasing by 2% per year in 20 to 29-year-olds, compared with 1.3% in 40 to 49-year-olds. Rectal cancer incidence is increasing by 3.2% per year in 20 to 29-year-olds and 30 to 39-year-olds, versus 2.3% in 40 to 49-year-olds. "We are now seeing patients even younger than 45 - in their 20s and 30s - who are being diagnosed with this cancer and often at very late stages," said Ng. "Clearly the USPSTF recommendation to start screening at age 45 will not be enough to catch those young people who are being diagnosed." Ultimately, optimal prevention and early detection of CRC in people younger than 45 will require further research into the underlying causes and risk factors of young-onset CRC, which have thus far remained elusive, said the editorial authors.  The authors also called for "bold steps" to translate the lowered age of beginning screening into meaningful decreases in CRC incidence and mortality, noting that despite the preventive benefits of colorectal cancer screening, only 68.8 percent of eligible individuals in the United States undergo screening. The rate is lower among the uninsured and underinsured, those with low incomes, and racial and ethnic minorities. Barriers include lack of knowledge of the importance of screening, concerns about the invasive nature of colonoscopy, and lack of access to and provider recommendations for screening. The editorial lists examples including public awareness campaigns, including those aimed at gaps in CRC incidence and mortality between Black and white Americans, and specific actions. Employers could provide 45-year-old employees with a paid "wellness day" to undergo CRC screening, or offer day care or transportation vouchers to overcome the logistical hurdles of colonoscopies. Health systems could offer weekend or after-hours appointments for colonoscopies. The new recommendation "represents an important policy change," the authors wrote, "to drive progress toward reducing colorectal cancer incidence and mortality."     Study Finds New and Effective Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency Boston University School of Medicine, May 20, 2021 There are several million people worldwide with various fat malabsorption syndromes including those who have undergone gastric bypass surgery and those with obesity. These patients often have a difficult time absorbing vitamin D and both groups of patients are at an increased risk for vitamin D deficiency and therefore at higher risk for osteoporosis and osteomalacia (softening of the bones). Patients with obesity are also susceptible to vitamin D deficiency as vitamin D derived from intestinal absorption and cutaneous synthesis is diluted in a larger body pool of fat. Now a new study demonstrates 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 is an effective treatment for vitamin D deficiency for these specific patients. According to the researchers, approximately one third of adults are obese and require much larger doses of vitamin D to satisfy their requirement. "This vitamin D metabolite is better absorbed in patients with fat malabsorption syndromes and since it is not as fat soluble, it does not gets diluted in the body fat and is effective in raising and maintaining blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in obese people," explained corresponding author Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics and molecular medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Healthy adults, adults with a fat malabsorption syndrome and obese adults were compared to evaluate if a more water-soluble form of vitamin D3 known as 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 was more effective than the same dose of vitamin D3 in improving their vitamin D status. The researchers observed that compared to healthy adults only about 36 percent of orally ingested vitamin D3 was found in the blood of patients with fat malabsorption syndromes including patients who had gastric bypass surgery. When the same adults ingested 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 the patients with fat malabsorption syndromes were able to absorb it as well as the healthy adults thereby raising their vitamin D status to the same degree. A similar observation was made in the obese subjects compared to the healthy controls. "Therefore using 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 could be a novel approach for treating vitamin D deficiency in patients with fat malabsorption syndromes and obese adults," added Holick. Vitamin D deficiency not only results in bone loss increasing risk for fracture but causes the painful bone disease osteomalacia. Patients who are vitamin D deficient with osteomalacia have unrelenting achiness in their bones and muscles. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with an increased risk of many chronic illnesses including multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, depression, neurocognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease as well as infectious diseases including COVID. These findings appear online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.   Young teens should only use recreational internet and video games one hour daily Rutgers University, May 24, 2021 Middle-school aged children who use the internet, social media or video games recreationally for more than an hour each day during the school week have significantly lower grades and test scores, according to a study from the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The findings appear in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.  Researchers say the findings give parents and children a moderate threshold for using entertainment-related technology -- no more than one hour daily on school days and four hours a day on weekends.  "Interactive technology is widely used to promote children's educational access and achievement," said lead author Vivien (Wen Li) Anthony, an assistant professor at the School of Social Work and research associate at the Rutgers Center for Gambling Studies. "During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has been essential to facilitating remote learning. At the same time, there is a growing concern that excessive technology use, particularly for entertainment, may adversely affect children's educational development by facilitating undesirable study habits and detracting from time spent on learning activities."  The researchers, which include Professor Lia Nower of the Rutgers Center for Gambling Studies and a researcher from Renmin University of China, analyzed the China Education Panel Survey data, a national survey of educational needs and outcomes of children in China. Approximately 10,000 first-year middle school students were surveyed and followed. Their average age was 13.5 years. The results showed that children who used the internet, social media or video games for entertainment four or more hours daily were four times more likely to skip school than those who did not. Boys used interactive technology for entertainment significantly more than girls. Boys also performed worse and showed lower school engagement levels than girls. "Such findings are critical, particularly in light of the recent movement toward online learning in countries throughout the world," said Anthony. "In a learning environment that integrates the internet, it is easy for children to move across educational and entertainment platforms during learning without alerting teachers or adults to alternate activities." Anthony said children in the study who used technology in moderation (i.e., less than one hour per day on weekends) experienced less boredom at school, potentially due to the positive effects of participation in social media, video games and video streaming such as peer bonding and relationship building. Using interactive technology for entertainment in moderation advanced children's cognitive development.  The findings suggest that parents place time limits on their children's interactive technology use, and that parents and teachers should help children to develop effective time management and self-regulation skills to reduce their reliance on technology.   Do people aged 105 and over live longer because they have more efficient DNA repair? University of Bologna (Italy),  May 19, 2021 Researchers have found that people who live beyond 105 years tend to have a unique genetic background that makes their bodies more efficient at repairing DNA, according to a study published in eLife. This is the first time that people with ‘extreme longevity’ have had their genomes decoded in such detail, providing clues as to why they live so long and manage to avoid age-related diseases. “Aging is a common risk factor for several chronic diseases and conditions,” explains Paolo Garagnani, Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy, and a first author of the study. “We chose to study the genetics of a group of people who lived beyond 105 years old and compare them with a group of younger adults from the same area in Italy, as people in this younger age group tend to avoid many age-related diseases and therefore represent the best example of healthy aging.” Garagnani and colleagues, in collaboration with several research groups in Italy and a research team led by Patrick Descombes at Nestle Research in Lausanne, Switzerland, recruited 81 semi-supercentenarians (those aged 105 years or older) and supercentenarians (those aged 110 years or older) from across the Italian peninsula. They compared these with 36 healthy people matched from the same region who were an average age of 68 years old. They took blood samples from all the participants and conducted whole-genome sequencing to look for differences in the genes between the older and younger group. They then cross-checked their new results with genetic data from another previously published study which analysed 333 Italian people aged over 100 years old and 358 people aged around 60 years old. They identified five common genetic changes that were more frequent in the 105+/110+ age groups, between two genes called COA1 and STK17A. When they cross-checked this against the published data, they found the same variants in the people aged over 100. Data acquired from computational analyses predicted that this genetic variability likely modulates the expression of three different genes. The most frequently seen genetic changes were linked to increased activity of the STK17A gene in some tissues. This gene is involved in three areas important to the health of cells: coordinating the cell’s response to DNA damage, encouraging damaged cells to undergo programmed cell death and managing the amount of dangerous reactive oxygen species within a cell. These are important processes involved in the initiation and growth of many diseases such as cancer. The most frequent genetic changes are also linked to reduced activity of the COA1 gene in some tissues. This gene is known to be important for the proper crosstalk between the cell nucleus and mitochondria - the energy-production factories in our cells whose dysfunction is a key factor in aging. Additionally, the same region of the genome is linked to an increased expression of BLVRA in some tissues - a gene that is important to the health of cells due to its role in eliminating dangerous reactive oxygen species. “Previous studies showed that DNA repair is one of the mechanisms allowing an extended lifespan across species,” says Cristina Giuliani, Senior Assistant Professor at the Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, and a senior author of the study. “We showed that this is true also within humans, and data suggest that the natural diversity in people reaching the last decades of life are, in part, linked to genetic variability that gives semi-supercentenarians the peculiar capability of efficiently managing cellular damage during their life course.” The team also measured the number of naturally occurring mutations that people in each age group had accumulated throughout their life. They found that people aged 105+ or 110+ had a much lower burden of mutations in six out of seven genes tested. These individuals appeared to avoid the age-related increase in disruptive mutations, and this may have contributed in protecting them against diseases such as heart disease. “This study constitutes the first whole-genome sequencing of extreme longevity at high coverage that allowed us to look at both inherited and naturally occurring genetic changes in older people,” says Massimo Delledonne, Full Professor at the University of Verona and a first author of the study. “Our results suggest that DNA repair mechanisms and a low burden of mutations in specific genes are two central mechanisms that have protected people who have reached extreme longevity from age-related diseases,” concludes senior author Claudio Franceschi, Professor Emeritus of Immunology at the University of Bologna.       Your Risk of Dying Hinges on Well-Being Not Diseases     University of Chicago, May 18, 2021 A new study has yielded a radically different picture of aging in America, finding that how old you are plays little or no role in determining differences in health and well-being. The researchers say the results suggest the medical community is focusing on the wrong set of factors to determine risk of dying. Rather than rely on a checklist of infirmities—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol levels—perhaps it’s time to consider a new “comprehensive model” that looks at factors such as psychological well-being, sensory function, and mobility. “The new comprehensive model of health identifies constellations of health completely hidden by the medical model and reclassifies about half of the people seen as healthy as having significant vulnerabilities that affect the chances that they may die or become incapacitated within five years,” says Professor Martha McClintock, a biopsychologist and lead author of the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “At the same time, some people with chronic disease are revealed as having many strengths that lead to their reclassification as quite healthy, with low risks of death and incapacity,” adds Professor Linda Waite, a demographer and study coauthor. The study is a major longitudinal survey of a representative sample of 3,000 people between the ages of 57 to 85 conducted by the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. SOME OF THE FINDINGS INCLUDE: Cancer itself is not related to other conditions that undermine health. Poor mental health, which afflicts one in eight older adults, undermines healthin ways not previously recognized. Obesity seems to pose little risk to older adults with excellent physical and mental health. Sensory function and social participation play critical roles in sustaining or undermining health. Breaking a bone after age 45 is a major marker for future healthissues. Older men and women have different patterns of healthand well-being during aging. Mobility is one of the best markers of well-being. The comprehensive model reflects a definition of health long advanced, but little studied, by the World Health Organization, which considers health to include psychological, social, and physical factors in addition to the diseases that are the basis for the current medical model of health. THE HEALTHIEST 22% Twenty-two percent of older Americans were in the model’s healthiest category. This group was typified by higher obesity and blood pressure, but had fewer organ system diseases, better mobility, sensory function, and psychological health. They had the lowest prevalence of dying or becoming incapacitated (six percent) five years into the study. A second category had normal weight, low prevalence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but had one minor disease such as thyroid disease, peptic ulcers, or anemia. They were twice as likely to have died or become incapacitated within five years. Two emerging vulnerable classes of health traits, completely overlooked by the medical model, included 28 percent of the older population. One group included people who had broken a bone after age 45. A second new class had mental health problems, in addition to poor sleep patterns, engaged in heavy drinking, had a poor sense of smell, and walked slowly, all of which correlate with depression. The most vulnerable older people were in two classes—one characterized by immobility and uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension. A majority of people in each of these categories were women, who tend to outlive men. “From a health system perspective, a shift of attention is needed from disease-focused management, such as medications for hypertension or high cholesterol, to overall well-being across many areas,” says William Dale, associate professor of medicine and a member of the research team. “Instead of policies focused on reducing obesity as a much lamented health condition, greater support for reducing loneliness among isolated older adults or restoring sensory functions would be more effective in enhancing health and well-being in the older population,” says Edward Laumann, also a collaborator and sociology professor.

In this episode, J. Remy Green, a partner at Cohen & Green PLLC and a teacher at Boston University Law and Baruch College at the City University of New York, and Austin A. Baker, a postdoctoral assistant professor at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, discuss their article "There is No Such Thing as a Legal Name: A Strange, Shared Delusion." They begin by explaining how there is no universal definition of a "legal name," even though most people and institutions assume there is. They describe the different ways that the law uses names. And they argue that the law can and does allow people to use the names they want. They also reflect on the harms caused by refusing to use someone's correct name. Green is on Twitter at @j_remy_green, and Baker is at @AustinACBaker.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of the Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture Series, join United States Congressman Darren Soto (FL-09) for a virtual conversation as he discusses his approach to advocacy through legislative service at the state and national level. Rep. Soto is a Rutgers alumnus and the first person of Puerto Rican descent to serve in Congress from Florida. U.S. Representative Darren Soto (FL-09) in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Matto (Professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics; Director, Center for Youth Political Participation). Introduction by Francine Newsome Pfieffer (Vice President, Federal Relations, Rutgers University) In cosponsorship with the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Rutgers Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Rutgers University Alumni Association, and the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey. Recorded) March 9, 2021

Join Eagleton Professor Saladin Ambar and Eagleton Graduate Fellow Emahunn Campbell for a conversation about Professor Ambar's book, Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era. From the Publisher: In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Republican Convention speech: ”Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” At a time when Malcolm was traveling widely and advocating on behalf of Blacks in America and other nations, his thirty-minute speech at the Oxford Union stands out as one of the great addresses of the civil rights era. In cosponsorship with the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities and Rutgers Paul Robeson Cultural Center, and made possible in part by the generous support of our Future of Democracy sponsors. February 23, 2021 - Webinar

LaTosha Brown is an award-winning thought leader, institution builder, cultural activist and artist, and connector. She is a nationally recognized, “go-to” expert in Black voting rights and voter suppression, Black women’s empowerment, and philanthropy. Join political strategist Marilyn D. Davis as she discusses Ms. Brown's story of civic engagement and political empowerment. Presented by the Louis J. Gambaccini Civic Engagement Series and in partnership with Rutgers Access Week, Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, and Rutgers Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Opening remarks by founding executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University, Michelle Stephens, Ph.D. February 17, 2021 Webinar

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education & Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Dr. Gasman is a leading advocate for equality and social justice. She speaks plainly about how her personal experiences enhance her passion for helping the BIPOC communities evolve into one of equality amidst today's social constructs. Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., is Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education & a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice as well as the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers University, she held the Judy & Howard Berkowitz Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and as the Director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She is one of the leading authorities in the country on historically black colleges (HBCUs). Gasman is an historian of higher education and served as the vice president of the history and historiography section of the American Educational Research Association from 2011–2014, and as the chair of the American Association of University Professor's Committee on HBCUs. Thanks so much for tuning in. Join us again next time for another episode! Contact Us! Connect with the hosts - Elvin Freytes, Elizabeth Leiba, and Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us! ● Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● Follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thanks for listening! We make education your business!

David Yawman (RLAW '95), Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for PepsiCo, sits down with Co-Dean David Lopez to discuss how Rutgers Law prepared him for his rise in corporate law. Learn more about David Yawman. Learn more about the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance. The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Series Producer and Editor: Kate Bianco --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

Alan V. Lowenstein Professor of Corporate and Business Law, Distinguished Practice Professor, and Founder/Co-Director, Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, Douglas S. Eakeley discusses corporate and business law with Co-Dean David Lopez. Learn more about Distinguished Practice Professor Eakeley. Learn more about the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. With two locations minutes from Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers Law offers the prestige and reputation of a large, nationally-known university combined with a personal, small campus experience. Learn more by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Series Producer and Editor: Kate Bianco --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

In today's program we continue our series on the conservation of humanity, today delving into the subject matter of addiction and substance use disorders, and the pathways to recovery. Joining us for today's episode is Dr. Stanton Peele. Dr Peele has been a leading global figure in the field of addiction, and addiction recovery for 50 years now. Dr. Peele earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1973. After earning his J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law in Newark in 1997, Dr Peele was admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars. Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, identifying the social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction policies, and the self-cure of addiction. Since the publication of his first book Love and Addiction in 1975, he has presented his ideas and data in a series of twelve books and over 250 professional and popular articles. His thoughts have appeared in the major social, scientific, psychological, and addiction journals. Recognition for his academic achievements have included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance. Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction. For more information on Dr. Peele and his programs please visit: Dr. Peele's website Life Process Program

In this episode of TurPh.Dudes, Drs. Jeff Atkinson and Raymond Snyder interview Dr. Bruce Clarke of Rutgers University. Dr. Clarke is the Director of the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and an Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology. Today we are discussing how fertility influences disease.

In 2004, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published. Sixteen years later, Morgan’s Laboring Women stands tall as one of the most important historical texts in the history of the academy. Building on Dr. Deborah Gray White’s literal field building and seminal 1985 monograph, Ar’n’t I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Laboring Women clearly added to White’s tradition, but also helped blaze a trail in her own right. Laboring Women was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period. Laboring Women is also critically important to scholarly understandings about African and African American history, reproduction, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and MORE! To say the least, since 2004, the game wasn’t the same, anymore! Learn why by listening to the conversation! Enjoy New Books in African American Studies listeners. Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis where she focuses on the history of the Black Atlantic World; comparative slavery, gender and sexuality studies. Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Adam also regularly contributes to academic blogs Black Perspectives and The Junto, and co-convenes Rutgers’ Center for Cultural Analysis’ Slavery and Freedom Studies Working Group. You can find Adam on Twitter at @CulturedModesty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2004, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published. Sixteen years later, Morgan’s Laboring Women stands tall as one of the most important historical texts in the history of the academy. Building on Dr. Deborah Gray White’s literal field building and seminal 1985 monograph, Ar’n’t I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Laboring Women clearly added to White’s tradition, but also helped blaze a trail in her own right. Laboring Women was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period. Laboring Women is also critically important to scholarly understandings about African and African American history, reproduction, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and MORE! To say the least, since 2004, the game wasn’t the same, anymore! Learn why by listening to the conversation! Enjoy New Books in African American Studies listeners. Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis where she focuses on the history of the Black Atlantic World; comparative slavery, gender and sexuality studies. Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Adam also regularly contributes to academic blogs Black Perspectives and The Junto, and co-convenes Rutgers’ Center for Cultural Analysis’ Slavery and Freedom Studies Working Group. You can find Adam on Twitter at @CulturedModesty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2004, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published. Sixteen years later, Morgan’s Laboring Women stands tall as one of the most important historical texts in the history of the academy. Building on Dr. Deborah Gray White’s literal field building and seminal 1985 monograph, Ar’n’t I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Laboring Women clearly added to White’s tradition, but also helped blaze a trail in her own right. Laboring Women was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period. Laboring Women is also critically important to scholarly understandings about African and African American history, reproduction, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and MORE! To say the least, since 2004, the game wasn’t the same, anymore! Learn why by listening to the conversation! Enjoy New Books in African American Studies listeners. Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis where she focuses on the history of the Black Atlantic World; comparative slavery, gender and sexuality studies. Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Adam also regularly contributes to academic blogs Black Perspectives and The Junto, and co-convenes Rutgers’ Center for Cultural Analysis’ Slavery and Freedom Studies Working Group. You can find Adam on Twitter at @CulturedModesty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2004, Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan’s Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published. Sixteen years later, Morgan’s Laboring Women stands tall as one of the most important historical texts in the history of the academy. Building on Dr. Deborah Gray White’s literal field building and seminal 1985 monograph, Ar’n’t I A Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, Laboring Women clearly added to White’s tradition, but also helped blaze a trail in her own right. Laboring Women was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period. Laboring Women is also critically important to scholarly understandings about African and African American history, reproduction, gender, sexuality, capitalism, and MORE! To say the least, since 2004, the game wasn’t the same, anymore! Learn why by listening to the conversation! Enjoy New Books in African American Studies listeners. Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis & History; Chair of the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis where she focuses on the history of the Black Atlantic World; comparative slavery, gender and sexuality studies. Adam McNeil is a third-year PhD Student in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Adam also regularly contributes to academic blogs Black Perspectives and The Junto, and co-convenes Rutgers’ Center for Cultural Analysis’ Slavery and Freedom Studies Working Group. You can find Adam on Twitter at @CulturedModesty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the Show: Fighting wage theft against America's most vulnerable workers. We'll feature a troubling new report from Rutgers Center for Innovation in Workers Organizations. And we'll report on a virtual rally that was held to create a “San Francisco Domestic Work Dignity Council” to bring together domestic workers, employers, and others to improve standards in the domestic work industry. And we rebroadcast our recent interview on Beirut after the massive explosion that laid waste to large chunks of the port and the city The post Fighting Wage Theft Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers appeared first on KPFA.

Dr. Eric L. Piza is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Prior to entering academia, he served as the Specialist of the Newark, NJ Police Department, Research Director for Crime Analytics of the Rutgers Center on Public Security, and Research ProgramCoordinator of the Police Institute. Dr. Piza is involved in a number of applied research projects focusing on the spatial analysis of crime patterns, problem-oriented policing, crime control technology, and the integration of academic research and police practice. Currently, Dr. Piza is leading a research project involving the systematic observation of body-camera footage to analyze situational characteristics of police use of force events. He has published more 45 peer-reviewed journal articles and secured over $2.3 million in grants in support of this research. Dr. Piza was the 2017 recipient of the American Society of Criminology, Division of Policing's Early Career Award, which recognizesoutstanding scholarly contributions to the field of policing by someone who has received his or her Ph.D. degree within the last five years. He received his PhD from Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. Links:Newark NJ foot patrol study --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/niroknowledge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/niroknowledge/support

Dr. Pennell and Dr. Jennifer Tsui discuss the processes that lead to suboptimal EOL care within Medicaid populations and among racial/ethnic minority groups.     Hello, and welcome to the latest JCO Oncology Practice podcast, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all recordings, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. My name is Dr. Nate Pennell, medical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic and consultant editor for the JCO OP. I have no conflicts of interest related to this podcast, and a complete list of disclosures is available at the end of the podcast. Aggressive care at the end of life for cancer patients is widely recognized as poor-quality care. And by aggressive care, I don't mean aggressive supportive care or hospice, but rather inappropriate interventions, like chemotherapy or hospital and ICU admissions, near the end of life that rarely improve outcomes and often actually worsen quality of life. Efforts are being made to educate physicians and cancer patients to try to minimize aggressive treatments near the end of life and to help as many patients as possible benefit from things like hospice benefits and appropriate end-of-life care. However, not all patients receive high-quality end-of-life care, and there may be differences in end-of-life care in various populations. For example, how do race and things like Medicaid status impact aggressive care at the end of life? With me today to discuss this topic is Dr. Jennifer Tsui, Assistant Professor in the Division of Population Science at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. We'll be discussing her paper "Racial Disparities in Health Care Utilization at the End of Life Among New Jersey Medicaid Beneficiaries With Advanced Cancer," currently in press for the JCO OP. Welcome, Dr. Tsui, and thank you for joining me on the podcast. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. I have no conflicts of interest with this study whatsoever. Dr. Tsui, can you please tell me a little bit about what exactly constitutes high or low-quality end-of-life care? Sure. I mean, I think that, in this study in particular, we wanted to focus on guideline-related end-of-life care. So we wanted to see if it was possible to take a look at patterns at the end of life for breast and colorectal cancer and stage cancer cases and see sort of what the patterns were in relation to adherence to guideline adherence and what they should be receiving at the end of life. And so that included a set of measures around aggressive care related to hospitalization in the last 30 days, emergency department visits in the last 30 days of life, an ICU admission in the last 30 days of life, and chemotherapy in the last 14 days of life. These are guidelines that have been discussed and published by national organizations. And we also looked at hospice enrollment. So we looked at whether there was any hospice enrollment and whether there was hospice enrollment in the last 30 days of life, I'm sorry. Are there already data existing for various disparities in end-of-life care among different racial groups or patients of different socioeconomic status? There are. So there have been a few prior publications before our study that have shown that Medicaid patients frequently-- not just for end-of-life care, but cancer care in general-- that Medicaid patients receive lower quality of care. And there were studies done prior to ours that did show, I think, in New York, for example, that Medicaid patients had lower-quality end-of-life care compared to Medicaid and privately insured patients. We have seen other studies also mentioning disparities by race in terms of quality of end-of-life care. However, I don't think-- some of these studies have focused on different populations and cancer sites. So some of the studies I mentioned looked at AYA, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. Other studies have focused on other cancer sites. And also, these were studies that were conducted in earlier time period. And what we know is that, given all that's happened since the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion in several states, sort of the Medicaid population has changed, but sort of health care delivery has been redesigned in different ways. And so that was really why we wanted to look at this issue sort of in more recent years and during a period that spanned Medicaid expansion within New Jersey. You know, that's helpful to understand what sort of prompted you to do this. So why don't you tell our listeners basically how you designed your study. Sure. So this was a large data linkage that we established within the state of New Jersey to better understand cancer care quality for breast and colorectal cancer patients in general, so beyond just the stage IV cancer patients, the patient's diagnosis at stage IV, but breast and colorectal cancer patients in general. So we worked with our New Jersey State Cancer Registry, identified all our breast and colorectal cancer cases that were diagnosed between 2011 and 2015, and then we linked those with our New Jersey Medicaid enrollment and claims files. So this was a study that was done in partnership with our Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. It was conducted sort of with ongoing input and feedback from both our State Cancer Registry as well as our Medicaid program. They've seen sort of findings related to this and other research questions we've had throughout the process. And what we really ended up with was a very rich data set that not only gave us all the tumor characteristics that are available in the cancer registry, but also the health care utilization patterns and Medicaid enrollment characteristics that are available on the Medicaid claims and Medicaid program data side. And how well did this database capture all of these measures of aggressive end-of-life care, so ED visits and chemotherapy and such? Since we did focus on those who were continuously enrolled in our state Medicaid program, we were able to go through our claims data and be able to, using billing codes, identify things like ED visits, et cetera. This data set only includes cancer cases up to age 64. So we didn't include people who may be dual enrolled in Medicare or have Medicare claims. We also tried to create some other restrictions so that we can get at just the people where we had a definitive diagnosis month and year and follow them through their death. And so we did use the prior studies that I mentioned earlier to see what kind of codes were used there. We have quite a multidisciplinary team of collaborators. I worked with quite closely the first author here, Annie Yang. Soon-to-be Dr. Annie Yang is in medical school here at the New Jersey Medical School. And so we did try to be as comprehensive as we could with the codes we used to identify those utilization patterns. OK, so why don't you tell us some of your findings? So I would say that the overall finding is that 62% of these stage IV breast and colorectal cancer patients received at least one measure of aggressive end-of-life care. So out of those four individual measures, 2/3 received at least one, which seems quite high. They ranged from 27% having at least one hospitalization to 34% receiving chemotherapy within the last 14 days of life. What we found is alarming, and it's sort of a call to action for addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care, is that we found that our non-Hispanic Black patients had a higher odds of receiving any one of those aggressive end-of-life care measures after controlling for other factors. So we did find this racial/ethnic disparity in non-Hispanic Black patients having more aggressive end-of-life care compared to our non-Hispanic white patients, even though these are all the same Medicaid program. This is within one state. And so it did point to some need to better understand what is going on within the health care system, within the health care encounter between patients and physicians towards the end of life and what needs to be done to address these disproportionate rates in end-of-life care among racial/ethnic minority patients. When you talk about these numbers, like 2/3 of patients having aggressive end-of-life care and 39% enrolling in hospice, how does that compare to what would be considered a more appropriate level, say, the private insured patients? So we didn't compare it to privately insured in our state, but we did look at what was published in other states. In New York, for example, I think we had a slightly higher proportion of Medicaid enrollees with stage IV breast and colorectal cancer having more aggressive care. So we did see higher rates. So while we can't compare within our state alone, we do see that the rates are slightly higher than other published studies. Well, I guess I'm just trying to figure out, is aggressive end-of-life care something that commonly happens to all Americans in general, or is this vastly more in this population than what we would expect? In the general population? Yeah, in the general-- You know, I don't-- yeah, I don't have those rates and what our bar should be at baseline, to be honest. I do think that what we see in the end-of-life hospice literature is that there is suboptimal use of hospice care. And what we found was, again, here also sort of suboptimal use of hospice care in this diverse, low-income, Medicaid population. No, clearly, clearly, definitely so. What are some reasons why Medicaid patients would be more likely to have aggressive end-of-life care, do you think? I think Medicaid patients sort of broadly often have higher rates of comorbid conditions when they're diagnosed with cancer. There are complex social factors related to the Medicaid population in terms of being low-income, in terms of other social determinants of health and social needs that increase barriers to care or barriers to high-quality care or continuity of care. In another paper that we published that focuses on this data linkage in the population and this data linkage, there was a lack of primary care utilization prior to cancer diagnosis as well as a lot of the cancer patients in Medicaid enrolling in Medicaid upon diagnosis, right? So I think that there are sort of just several multi-level factors that contribute to why there may be higher rates of aggressive end-of-life care. I think, from a patient perspective, there is a literature out there on the need for communication tools and sort of interaction and inclusion of caregivers that are a part of the decision-making in end-of-life care. Certainly, we've seen in the literature for a while the issue of providers and providers not only being sort of culturally competent or racial and ethnic concordant, but having the tools that they need, both for the physician or the health care team, to have these end-of-life discussions. So I think it's very multi-level and certainly not just either on the patient or the physician. Even within the Medicaid population, so independent just of the, say, the financial pressures that would lead one to enroll in Medicaid, what you showed was that non-Hispanic Black patients had a much higher rate of aggressive end-of-life care even than the overall Medicaid population. And why do you think that would be true? Yeah, so after we finished the analysis for this, we definitely did reach out to other colleagues who have worked in the communities more closely within New Jersey, within the non-Hispanic Black population across New Jersey. We've also talked to our state Medicaid program to, one, think of sort of action items for how to better understand what we're seeing in the quantitative administrative data here, and then two, how to engage communities to understand what to do next about this. So from the literature and from sort of racial/ethnic disparities literature, we do know that there is often mistrust of the medical system. There's underutilization of preventive screenings, and there are physician biases and structural biases that occur along the way, so again, the multi-level factors that impact why there may be disproportionate aggressive end-of-life care in the non-Hispanic Black population. You know, we can't answer those questions with Medicaid claims and enrollment files. We can identify these patterns. And I think what our research team has been in communication with our state Medicaid program to do next is then figure out, how do we talk with some of these communities across the state to figure out what the appropriate community-level education tools might be needed to improve an understanding of what end-of-life options are, but also to focus on the hospitals and health care systems that may be disproportionately seeing some of the-- that may be seeing higher proportions of non-Hispanic Black patients, and how can we engage the health care teams within those settings to figure out what can be done at the health care delivery level? Do you think we have enough information to make interventions now? I mean, are there-- how do you think, aside from further study and trying to understand it better, we might, in the short term, improve rates of quality end-of-life care in these high-risk patients? We've seen-- and we've talked about this, I think, in this field somewhat-- is, one, there are guidelines. And just having health care teams, providers, hospitals understand where they are, sort of tracking where they are in rates of aggressive end-of-life care and in hospice enrollment, and having that feedback and audit loop to kind of look introspectively within the health care delivery setting, I think is one option that we've seen in terms of trying to increase quality and increase adherence to guidelines for other things. And then I certainly think that there might be a need for community-level interventions around, what are the barriers to hospice enrollment? Or where is the lack of awareness and knowledge around end-of-life care options? And what does it mean to reduce interventional care, right? And what does it mean for communities? I think that targeting those aspects and having a dialogue that is responsive to the community-level needs are probably ways that we can start. I think that makes sense. I mean, as an oncologist, a city with a high minority population, I think improving the cultural competence and being able to establish a level of trust with patients who may have an inherent distrust of the medical system, especially when you're talking about something like that's as counterintuitive as trying to recommend not doing more aggressive care, it's certainly a complex conversation and definitely would require a level of trust and communication in order to do that properly. So I completely agree with you that I think, on the community level, the interventions will have to involve that if it's going to be effective. So Dr. Tsui, thanks so much for joining me on the podcast today. Thank you for having me. And until next time, thank you to our listeners for listening to this JCO Oncology Practice podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or a review on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO OP podcasts are just one of ASCO's many podcasts programs. You can find all the recordings at podcast.asco.org. The full text of this paper will be available online at ascopubs.org/journal/op. This is Dr. Nate Pennell for the JCO Oncology Practice, signing off.   The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. For more original research, editorials, and review articles, please visit us online at jco.org. This production is copyrighted to the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Thank you for listening.

Jill Johnson is the Co-founder/CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL). Most recently, Jill conceived and launched the Women of Color Connecting initiative to change the way we think about building the capacity of Women of Color entrepreneurs for the grow-scale-exit trajectory. She is also spearheading The Making of Black Angels movement to drive diversity and inclusion within the angel investing sector. She has over 30 years of experience as a business strategist. She is a small business champion with extensive experience in program development, business plan writing, and pitch coaching. In her capacity as CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Ms. Johnson is responsible for the strategic direction of the organization and capacity building. She is especially focused on creating earned revenue opportunities and strategic partnerships. She has led the organization in successfully winning contracts with the New Jersey Department of Labor, the Newark Urban Enterprise Zone, Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and Greater Newark LISC to provide entrepreneurial training and support services.  Ms. Johnson is a member of the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (NCEI) Entrepreneurship Council and the Excelsior Growth Fund Advisory Board. In the past, she served on the Red Tape Commission created by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and was an appointee of Mayor Cory Booker to the Board of Trustees of the Newark Public Library. She was also a co-chair of the South Orange Main Street Economic Development Committee.  Ms. Johnson has a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and is married with four amazing sons. In this episode: Jill Johnson is the daughter of entrepreneurial parents who devoted their energy to running a successful small business, but, as people of color, lacked  access to the networks that lead to capital.  Jill’s perspectives changed when she went to Harvard and on to Goldman Sachs and began to see the networks in action. Skills alone were insufficient without the right contacts. As co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL), Jill fosters environments that connect minority and women small business owners with the investors and opportunities that were not previously accessible to them.  

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Shawn Arent. Performance tests are abundant now a days and can range from blood monitoring services like Inside Tracker to FatMax testing and VO2max testing. But how do you make sense of it all and which tests are valuable for athletes? Shawn M. Arent, PhD, CSCS*D, FISSN, FACSM is Professor and Chair of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina, which is currently the top-ranked program in the United States. He is also the Director of the UofSC Sport Science Lab. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Rutgers Center for Health & Human Performance. His research focuses on the relationship between physical activity and stress and the implications for health, performance, and recovery. Dr. Arent’s recent work has primarily focused on physiological responses to training-related stressors and their contribution to optimal performance and recovery. He was named the 2017 William J. Kraemer Outstanding Sports Scientist of the Year by NSCA. He is a fellow in ACSM and ISSN and is the current President of ISSN. Additionally, he has worked with teams in the NHL, MLB, the US Soccer Federation, and a number of teams at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels.@ShawnArentPapers Referenced:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28919842/?from_term=Shawn+arent&from_pos=2https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2019/10000/Biomarker_Response_to_a_Competitive_Season_in.5.aspxDavid Clark's website- https://www.wearesuperman.comhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-david-clarkhttps://www.amazon.com/EAT-SH-DIE-Radical-Junkies/dp/1513662155

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE. Eve Picker: [00:00:12] Hi there, thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is the energetic Lyneir Richardson. In all that he does, Lyneir is razor-focused on helping urban entrepreneurs. He straddles two roles in two cities, Newark and Chicago.   Eve: [00:00:32] At Rutgers University in Newark, he is the executive director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. There he is intent on helping 1000 diverse urban entrepreneurs grow their companies. And he's also an entrepreneur himself. He co-founded and is CEO of the Chicago Trend, a social enterprise providing resources to real estate developers and retailers to promote investment in Chicago neighborhoods.   Eve: [00:01:05] Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Lyneir on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small change.   Eve: [00:01:38] Hello Lyneir, I'm really excited to have you here today.   Lyneir Richardson: [00:01:42] Thank you for inviting me. I'm looking forward to our conversation.   Eve: [00:01:45] Yeah. So, you're a man with a mission and I'd really love to talk about that today. And like, firstly, in your role as the director of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at Rutgers University, and that's quite a mouthful, you've set a goal there of helping 1000 urban entrepreneurs grow their businesses. And I'd really like to hear more about that.   Lyneir: [00:02:09] Great. Well, I have been at Rutgers Business School for six years. In October of 2019 we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. During that 10-year period, we really focused on helping a diverse set of entrepreneurs get to, quote unquote, the next level, and that's how we always talked about, and then made the connection between entrepreneurship and economic development. Let me tell you a little bit about what I mean. We can point to the fact that we directly assisted over 400, now probably almost 500 entrepreneurs, 70 percent are entrepreneurs of color, African American or Latino largely, over 62 percent are women. 40 percent are right in the city of Newark, New Jersey which is an urban city that's been really revitalizing through local municipal leadership and corporate support. And of those firms we've taken now a little over 160 above a million dollars a year in revenue. So we're really excited about.   Eve: [00:03:22] Fabulous, yeah.   Lyneir: [00:03:23] That was really my, you know, first 10 years of work. And so the next, as we thought about it, all right, we've completed our 10 years, what do you want to do next? We really focused on this initiative we're calling a thousand million. And as you mentioned, the focus is, can we help, you know, a thousand diverse entrepreneurs get to and exceed a million dollars a year of annual recurring revenue? The reason why that's important for us is, you know, the million-dollar revenue mark is not the end all be all, but it's an important threshold, it's when an entrepreneur typically can start to think about either borrowing money or taking on investors. It's at that point where they have some employees beyond themselves. It's at that point where they hopefully will start to be able to consistently have some owner's compensation or some profit to share. You know, they have customer validations and that type of stuff.   Eve: [00:04:21] They're at the beginning of growth mode, right?   Lyneir: [00:04:24] The beginning of growth mode. And so, while we work with, you know, micro-entrepreneurs, you know, initially doing a hundred or two hundred thousand dollars of revenue, as long as they were in business for two years and we won't, you know, discontinue working with them, we sort of turn to an intentional effort to take firms who are in the two to three, six hundred thousand dollar range and try to focus on getting them to the next level. That's been fun.   Lyneir: [00:04:49] That's our Rutgers Center for Urban…, and Rutgers has been a really supportive university environment because typically entrepreneurship centers at universities are, you know, internally focused. Helping students pursue entrepreneurial activity and helping alumni. Rutgers here, because we have this Chancellor, Nancy Cantor, who's really made publicly engaged scholarship a strategic priority and a mission, she's a national spokesperson for it, as well as the dean of our business school who made social impact, you know, one of her top initiatives and priorities we are able to open the doors of the business school to a community of entrepreneurs, many or most of which are not Rutgers students, and they're not Rutgers alumni, you know. It's just a community around us, the local coffee shop or the professional service provider in the area, in our state or region that we really are helping to accelerate and grow.   Eve: [00:05:53] Cool. How long is it going to get to a thousand of them?   Lyneir: [00:05:56] You know, it's interesting. So, if you think about it, it took us 10 years to get 400 entrepreneurs in our program 160, I think by, you know, intentionally focusing, we're hoping that over the next five years you will start to reach that goal. So we're talking to a number of corporate partners, we've talked to some of the big philanthropy about both making, you know, our in-person courses, expanding them out some, but obviously not just because of the pandemic, but even in advance of it, using online tools so that we can expand our reach. So, yeah, we're hoping that over the next five years, you know, we'll start to see more, you know, more entrepreneurs across the threshold. We're going to research it and track it and celebrate it as well.   Eve: [00:06:43] So what does an urban entrepreneur look like and where are they located? What sort of businesses are they?   Lyneir: [00:06:49] Yep. So it's interesting. So, you know, urban entrepreneur is, it's an interesting term. Urban is an interesting term, right? So, you know, what's urban? Is it, in most instances place? Is it about density of place? I've been most passionate about urban with a racial lens. Racially diverse, economically, you know, challenged ethnic and underserved areas. So, in a lot of respects, my urban is really focused on here in the US, who have not been able to realize the full promise of our American dream, right? They have been subjected by, you know, systemic racism and that kind of stuff. So the question is, can I help them get resources and opportunity, you know to folks who have been overlooked and undervalued, right? So that's really the focus of the urban we do. Distressed urban neighborhoods where we'll create jobs and create wealth in communities. And then the economic development impact's all-around quality of life, right? You know, will crime decrease? Will there be better educational outcomes, you know, more amenities and neighborhoods, you know, that type of work, right? And that's the things that we measure, right? And so, our view is these urban entrepreneurs, as they become more successful, will be community anchors. They support the Little League team, you know, and civically active and employ locally and, you know, that's the big dream and the vision for it all.   Eve: [00:08:20] Can you give us some examples of the sorts of businesses you've helped?   Lyneir: [00:08:24] So, a wide variety. I'll talk about a few that we're proud of.   Eve: [00:08:29] Surely, you're proud of them all, right?   Lyneir: [00:08:33] Right, we're proud of them all. I just did it off the top of my head, You're right about that.   Eve: [00:08:35] It's like your children.   Lyneir: [00:08:37] Well thank you for that, you're right.   Lyneir: [00:08:38] We have four categories or signature program, sort of, lanes. One we call, which is our bedrock program, the Entrepreneurs Pioneers Initiative. It's for first generation entrepreneurs. We have a program for media and art in entertainment industry entrepreneurs. We have a program that focuses on helping retail and restaurant entrepreneurs. And we have done a lot of work recently with people of color forming technology ventures and accelerating, you know, those ideas. And typically, after school and on the summer, we will do some youth entrepreneurship programs.   Lyneir: [00:09:17] You know, we have a really cool - I'll just go walk back up the ladder - so we have a really cool technology firm called WearWorks that have started to raise capital into a number of strategic partnerships. This product is a haptics, sort of a navigation device for people with visual disabilities. Their recent accomplishment is using their product - a blind individual ran the New York Marathon for the first time without any type of seeing eye dog or, you know, used that tool to do it. We hope that they're going to continue to grow and get resources and use their tools for training and for all types of health outcomes as well. We have put the local right down the street from our business school. We have a number of restaurants and coffee shops. Black Swan coffee, Green Chickpea is a restaurant. These are local businesses that we've either helped get contracts with the university, you know, one is soon to announce a second location. You know, the coffee shop I love because the donuts are so great, right? So, you know, I would I should be avoiding the donut shop, it's really cool right down the street. A lot of professional services firms, PR firms, accounting firms.   Eve: [00:10:33] That's a really wide variety.   Lyneir: [00:10:35] Yeah, very exciting.   Eve: [00:10:36] So, I wonder, how do you identify these entrepreneurs? What's the bar they have to reach to be able to get into a program?   Lyneir: [00:10:43] Our initial requirement was in business at least two years, and one hundred thousand dollars of revenue is the threshold for most of our programs. The technology ventures, you know, we knew they were start-ups and, you know, it was, do we believe they could have some type of traction? Either they've gotten some other investment or been admitted into some other accelerator programs or, you know, have some indication of probability of success. But the goal really is, is to take people on, you know, a rung of the ladder and help them get to the next rung of the ladder. You know, at the state university where we view ourselves as an anchor, that's going to be here. And so, we provide resources over many years. The entrepreneurs is not just in a program. You know, we give people student consulting teams over multiple years. We invite them back to universities over multiple years. So, you know, we're in it for the long haul with the entrepreneurs in our funds.   Eve: [00:11:40] That sounds fabulous. What's your background and how did you get here?   Lyneir: [00:11:45] Well, I started as a lawyer. I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. My dad owned a restaurant and bar. We owned popcorn stores., we owned five popcorn stores. So, you know, like, our dinnertime conversations were around, you know, we got a new location or lease, or a truck broke down, or someone didn't show up. You know, what are you going to do? And I, growing up as a teen, I was a D.J., a clean-up person, a delivery person, so I had all of those roles and saw business firsthand. I went to law school and practiced law initially as a bank lawyer.   Eve: [00:12:19] I have to ask, a family that owns popcorn stores begets a lawyer? How did that happen?   Lyneir: [00:12:25] Well, you know what? Yeah, our parents believed in education, right? And they believed, you know, in the value of education to continue to advance the family. What was interesting in being a bank lawyer was to de-mystify banking. I remember as a child, we'd always talk about how difficult it was to get a bank loan or, you know, and the narrative is, I was probably drawn to be a bank lawyer, and 90 lawyers in the law department there. But I remember every afternoon around 2:00 p.m., I'd start to fall asleep on the bank loan documents. It wasn't until I got an opportunity to do a community pro bono project of loaning, instead of loaning one hundred million dollars to an airlines or a public utility, I got a project to loan one hundred thousand dollars to a little entrepreneur, a local entrepreneur who was buying the building that I think he was operating his barbershop from. And it was the same documents, promissory note, loan agreement, guarantee, minus three zeros. Instead of one hundred million it was one hundred thousand.   Eve: [00:13:27] Right, I'm very familiar.   Lyneir: [00:13:29] But I loved it, right? It was, all of a sudden, I could see the connection to the work. And, you know, being on that court or in a struggling neighborhood not far from where we initially grew up. Then that community development work became my passion, right. Getting resources to those type of entrepreneurs into the communities, that became my passion.   [00:13:50] I worked as a bank lawyer. I became an entrepreneur myself in Chicago. I developed, built and sold well over 300 single family homes and town homes, mostly in underserved areas, was Young Entrepreneur of the Year in SBA many years ago, right 25, almost 30 years ago. But then I had all the highs and all the lows of entrepreneurship from, you know, the cover of the Crain’s Magazine and the awards to the doors of bankruptcy court. I ended up selling my company in a fire sale after a tough period. I lost, got fired on the job, we over-extended ourself on a contract, you know, I had, you know personal, you know, the mother died, you know, I had this period of just needing to restructure. But I was able to get a job doing the same work, heading a national initiative with a publicly traded company that was focused on doing retail development in urban neighborhoods.   Lyneir: [00:14:45] And so by now, I start to see this pattern. I was a bank lawyer and found passion and lending in urban neighborhoods. I then started as an entrepreneur building homes in urban neighborhoods. Then I found this big corporate position that had a national focus on getting retail to urban neighborhoods. And then, when the recession hit in 2007, I got this opportunity to work with Cory Booker and head the Economic Development Organization in Newark, New Jersey. Cory Booker, as you may know, very charismatic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, ultimately became Senator Booker. And because of his charisma, we had this opportunity to position Newark as a city that would be a national model of urban transformation and started to do projects. So, we did grocery stores and office buildings and new restaurants in the city – it became a lot of fun. And when he became Senator Booker is when I moved to Rutgers. So that's the long sort of career journey.   Eve: [00:15:45] I mean, there seems to be a lot happening in Newark. I keep running into people doing...   Lyneir: [00:15:49] Very good. I mean, even now, phenomenal current leadership. Senator Booker is working more at the national level, but we have a phenomenal local mayor who's galvanized both the business community, the residential community, and really done phenomenal work here. So, a lot's going on. The last thing I just want to mention is, what initially started out as a research project in my first year at Rutgers has now morphed into a social enterprise that we're. you know, really excited about. I'm also CEO of a social enterprise called Chicago Trend. It's a real estate focused social enterprise that now has about 15 million dollars of capital investing in the same neighborhoods, trying to determine when commercial real estate development and retail amenities and services and performing arts, and we've been investing two hundred thousand, two million dollars into various projects with the mission of strengthening the commercial corridors that will ultimately strengthen the neighborhoods. And again, Rutgers has been very good in allowing this research work to be in synergy with the entrepreneurial activity in Chicago. So, for me, I am at a high point in my career, both sides of the brain. One side is teaching entrepreneurs and being a champion and cheerleader of entrepreneurs in Rutgers. The other side is, I actually get to put money into ventures and, and trying to make an investment return. So, it really is a fun time. A fun career.   Eve: [00:17:24] Exciting. It sounds like you’re very busy.   Lyneir: [00:17:27] Absolutely. But, when it's passion work, even though it's busy, you know, it doesn't hurt.   Eve: [00:17:32] No, I totally agree with you. So then, what, you know, what does socially responsible real estate look like to you?   Lyneir: [00:17:39] So, again, my focus has been getting resources to people in places that other people overlook and undervalue. And for me, that is, every city has a part of town, again I headed economic development in Newark, so there was a part of town where crime is higher, where there's more blight, where, you know, educational achievement is not as great, where there's adverse health indicators. That's the part of town that I believe, a focus on real estate development and a focus on commercial corridor, inclusive ownership of property, getting amenities, day-care, dry cleaner, urgent care center, grocery store is what people often talk about, sit down restaurant. Those type of investments can change and strengthen a neighborhood. And people also will change, I'm concerned about gentrification. It's always not bringing Neiman Marcus in, it's bringing the amenities and services that improve the quality of life for the residents who have decided this is where I want to live, but to also continue to add economic diversity to a neighborhood as well. Additional income so that middle income families and, you know, people with additional educational achievements can say: I grew up here, I have some connection to this neighborhood and I can make this a place where I choose to live because of its conveniences and its history  and, you know, be a part of its continued progression.   Eve: [00:19:22] Yeah, I mean, I think the gentrification line is very difficult because we can't leave places like that without investment. So, you have to find a way to invest respectfully, I suppose it's the way.   Lyneir: [00:19:35] Exactly right. And doing it inclusively. So this is, you know, the capital we've invested. It's with people of color who have some connection to that neighborhood. It's helping residents open a national franchise in a neighborhood. Again, it's getting capital to help residents and local entrepreneurs own and drive the revitalization, own and drive the economic growth. That's what's fun for me.   Eve: [00:20:05] So the fund, the fifteen-million-dollar fund that you're using, how did you raise that?   Lyneir: [00:20:11] It initially philanthropically motivated impact investors. It is, the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago provided the initial five million dollars of what they call the program related investment, a very flexible, patient capital which allows us to invest it into projects in a patient and flexible way as well. We've had a second investor, five million dollars of venture called Benefit Chicago, which was, includes the Coward Foundation. And then most recently we announced a five-million-dollar investment from Fifth Third Bank, you know, again a flexible capital. And we have, some of the religious organizations have also made some. The American Baptist Home Mission Society has provided some equity capital that we're using also, so really excited about it.   Eve: [00:21:04] So, you know, my next comment is going to be, you know, what about crowdfunding? Letting everyday people invest?   Lyneir: [00:21:11] Again, when I read about your work, it's something that I would love to figure out how to do. We haven't and it's certainly, we want crowdfunding to be a part of our menu. And again, now that we have made investments, have a track record, you know, this thought of can I create vehicles that will allow more local ownership alongside of our investment would be phenomenal. So,   Eve: [00:21:37] Well, we should talk 'cause you don't need to figure it out 'cause I have.   Lyneir: [00:21:40] Great. We should do something together. I love it.   Eve: [00:21:43] Yeah, it really is an impact fund with impact investors who care about what you're doing. It's pretty great stuff. Yeah. So, I have to ask, we're in the middle of a pandemic and we're both at home doing this interview, how are you supporting your entrepreneurs through this pandemic?   Lyneir: [00:22:05] Phenomenal question. You know, we have done a few webinars initially asking people, how is the pandemic affecting you? How are you thinking about your business model? How can we be supportive? So, you know, first thing was, instead of just responding, we started to talk to the entrepreneurs and try to understand from our customers how we could best support them. We've done a number of webinars and servers around applying for the available resources, as well as thinking about how to innovate business model to a more aligned and my favorite was, one of the entrepreneurs in our program operates a dance studio. But, you know, they're doing their jazz dance programs via Zoom now. And the one question she wanted us to help her figure out was, you know, do I have legal liability? And, you know, how do I, you know, either get some consents because they're not in my spaces, if someone gets hurt? So, you know, that those type of strategic questions, right?   Eve: [00:23:05] That's interesting, yeah.   Lyneir: [00:23:06] That's really been the nature of the work. Where I am spending a lot of time is on a program that goes deep, right? So, I think right now, everybody is having, rightfully so and thankfully so, there's a lot of announcements about new programs and small grants, local, municipal, federal, corporate, even philanthropic, to help entrepreneurs sort of survive. I really am spending a lot of time thinking about, and we've designed a sort of, I call it entrepreneurial management consulting to help entrepreneurs really think beyond the first three months of opening. But to think about, you know, the economic reality over the next year and two, you know. How do you change your model? How do you create new revenue streams? Is this the time to reposition? Can you raise new capital in addition to, you know, accessing all of the survival and recovery capital and strategies that are out there? How do you really think about this as a moment to become stronger?   Eve: [00:24:16] Yes. The interesting thing is, like, entrepreneurs are wired that way, right? They're people who think things up and work through challenges and are flexible and figure out how to get through unexpected challenges and it could be a really good opportunity to make a business stronger or different or add some programming to it or whatever. And I have noticed amongst people in general, there seems to be a clear divide between people who say, well, we're just gonna get back to normal and others who say, well, what's normal going to be? It's going to be different. It's very interesting to me. And you're clearly one of the people thinking about a different normal, right?   Lyneir: [00:24:58] Absolutely. And again, I think entrepreneurs are thinking about that as well. I guess there's two categories. There are some folks who say this is the time for me to reposition or to do entrepreneurship, either in a different way or to think about that this is not fun, right. And then again, there's a lot of parts of entrepreneurship that are not fun. And, you know there's late nights and there's accounts payable and, you know, and chasing, you know, opportunity. And so, I think there'll be some folks who will say, this may be my time to exit or to leave, right? But there's another subset of entrepreneurs that I believe are, even right now, thinking where's the new opportunity? How do I get new capital to pursue that opportunity? They're sitting back at home and thinking about what do I need to do to create a stronger business, additional wealth, you know, when we all are back outside again in the new norm?   Eve: [00:26:03] Yeah, interesting. So, a final question is, what do you think that the Center will look like in a year? Have you thought about that?   Lyneir: [00:26:14] Yeah, so I mean, again, we have already pivoted to all of our capacity building programs now are virtual. And the thought of being able to have a broader reach. You know, we won three of four awards for the effectiveness of our programs. And to be able to have a broader reach because of technology, and it being accepted, that's the cool thing about using all of the Zoom and WebEx and other tools is before, it always was sort of, well it was a second option, the technology was always sort of clunky. You would never make that even part of the first consideration. I think now our Center's going to have a whole lot more reach and impact by using, and leaning into, and the acceptance of the virtual tools. And we're also, you know, embarking on a campaign to endow our Center which will allow us to be, you know, not raising money program by program, to name the Center and to be able to continue to impact entrepreneurs along the scale. From youth to technology to the coffee shop down the street.   Eve: [00:27:30] Well, I really can't wait to hear, see what happens next and you and I are going to have some coffee on Zoom sometime very soon. Thank you very much.   Lyneir: [00:27:42] What a phenomenal opportunity and thank you.   Eve: [00:27:46] OK, bye.   Eve: [00:28:02] That was Lyneir Richardson, while Lyneir's work straddles two cities the goal is the same in both places. He's searching for ways to level the playing field for entrepreneurs and real estate developers in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. In Newark he's helped 400 diverse entrepreneurs, growing to a thousand, grow their businesses. And in Chicago he provides resources to real estate developers and retailers to promote investment in disadvantaged Chicago neighborhoods.   Eve: [00:28:35] You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my web site, evepicker.com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities.   [00:28:52] Thank you so much for spending your time with me today and thank you Lyneir for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon but for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

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Dr. Joel Caplan is Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of criminal Justice, Director of the Masters Program, and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security. Joel co-developed and continues to advance the spatial crime analysis technique of Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), now used in over 35 states in the US and over 40 countries worldwide.  He has prior professional experience as a police officer, 9-1-1 dispatcher, and emergency medical technician, and he routinely serves as a research partner and consultant to agencies in the U.S. and around the world on matters of public safety and security. Joel's latest book titled “Risk-Based Policing: Evidence-Based Crime Prevention with Big Data and Spatial Analytics” brings a lot of his evidence-based practices and experiences together in one place.Links:RTMDx Gratis Program – the RTM program to download and useJoel Caplan's Twitter – for more great analytical insight and more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/niroknowledge/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/niroknowledge/support

Dr. Joel Caplan is Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of criminal Justice, Director of the Masters Program, and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security. Joel co-developed and continues to advance the spatial crime analysis technique of Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), now used in over 35 states in the US and over … Continue reading NIRO Knowledge – Episode 10

Co-Dean David Lopez speaks with Rutgers Law School Professor David Troutt, exploring his work as the founding director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME) and his scholarship on race, class, and legal structure. Learn more about Professor Troutt. The Power of Attorney is produced by Rutgers Law School. Offering a world-class, diverse faculty of passionate teachers and scholars and an alumni network more than twenty thousand members strong around the globe, Rutgers Law has an extensive reach in the legal community. Learn more about our close-knit law school communities in Camden and Newark by visiting law.rutgers.edu. Transcript of this episode available here. Episode Producer: Elizabeth Moore Series Producer and Editor: Emily Brennan Transcript: Kate Bianco --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rutgerslaw/message

Jill Johnson is helping women of color entrepreneurs succeed! Today, in 2019, 40% of the businesses in the U.S. are owned by women. In this podcast, Jill Johnson and I discuss the challenges faced by women of color in starting a business, finding the capital to underwrite its growth, and developing the business acumen to successfully take their ideas and turn them into brilliant innovations. It is never easy. Listen in and learn how Jill did it! Access to capital (or lack of access) is a legacy challenge with roots deep in our American history, especially for entrepreneurs of color.  Women of color are starting businesses at higher rates than anyone else, yet they get less capital, have fewer successful exits and produce less income for owners. While there have been innovative capital solutions in recent years, capital constraint remains a defining problem for the majority of women of color entrepreneurs. Jill talks with us today about how she is attacking this problem by sharing her expertise for creating the connections that open doors to opportunity. In our fascinating conversation, Jill and I talk about her family of entrepreneurs who started and ran a successful newspaper business in New Jersey. But, as we know so well, the newspaper business is not a flourishing growth industry, so Jill and her father turned their attention to developing resources for entrepreneurs, particularly women entrepreneurs, so that they, too, could be successful business leaders.  As a major step in this direction, Jill co-founded the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL) in 2002, then launched the IFEL Adopt-a-Business Program along with a broader initiative called Women of Color Connecting whose convening summit, January 31-February 1, 2019, helped women of color build their networks, pitch their ideas and find the support they need to thrive.   Women are becoming a major force in business: As of 2018, there are 3 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., compared to only 402,000 in 1972. Women now own 4 out of every 10 businesses in the U.S. Since 2007, the number of women-owned businesses has increased by 58%. Overall, businesses have only increased by 12%. Last year, 1,821 new women-owned businesses were launched every day, with 64% of those founded by women of color. Women are slightly more likely to start a business than men, according to the SCORE report. Now the big question facing all of us is how to help them succeed. At SAMC, that's what we're all about—helping people become successful business leaders. That's why in early 2018, Andy and I launched The Simon Initiative for Entrepreneurship in partnership with Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship to connect entrepreneurs, particularly women, with the resources they need to launch their ventures. In addition, we've created an Ebook Primer for Entrepreneurs and a 6-Step Process for Entrepreneurs. Along with Jill, our mission is to open doors to opportunity. Stay tuned!  Some background on Jill Jill Johnson is the Co-founder/CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL). With nearly 30 years' experience as a business strategist, she possesses expertise in financial analysis, marketing and business development. She is an advocate for community businesses and micro-enterprise and is a leading authority in the area of minority inclusion in the entrepreneurial world. She is also a highly-sought-after speaker on topics including: community economic development, business plan development, entrepreneurship, minority and women-led small business growth, and access to capital. Jill started her career as a financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co, then joined City News Publishing Company. From there, she became President of On Point Consulting, a strategic business planning consultancy, advising early-stage businesses through a variety of strategic planning and growth issues. As CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Jill is responsible for strategic direction and capacity building, and has led the company in successfully winning contracts with the New Jersey Department of Labor, the Newark Urban Enterprise Zone and the Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. Jill is also a member of several advisory boards, including the National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (NCEI) Entrepreneurship Council and the Red Tape Commission. She earned her B.A. in economics from Harvard University and is married with four amazing sons.  Want to learn more? A collection of blogs and podcasts you will enjoy: Blogs: 3 Ways A Female CEO Built A Successful Business With A Culture of Collaboration Successful Entrepreneur Sees “Holes in the Cheese” and Builds Great Companies to Fill Them It's Time to Change the Workplace So Women and Businesses Can Thrive Terrific Websites to Empower Successful Women Entrepreneurs Why Women CEOS Are So Different and So Successful Podcasts: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Think Bigger, Build Sustainable Businesses, and Change the World "Work PAUSE Thrive" with Lisen Stromberg Lisa Perrine—Exciting Times to Rebuild A Business Tanya Hall—How a Woman CEO Built a Great Publishing Business Additional resources: Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership Women of Color Connecting  IFEL Adopt-a-Business Program My book: "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" Our website: Simon Associates Management Consultants    Download the 1-page synopsis of my book, "On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights" here

Former Rutgers Men's Basketball Center, C.J. Gettys, joins Lance to talk about his path to Rutgers, his time on the Banks, and more. They discuss what led him to Rutgers as a graduate transfer, his relationship with Coach Pikiell and the staff, the adjustments going from the CAA to the Big Ten, the RAC atmosphere and fans, his professional career, and his thoughts on the current team and year 3 of this Rutgers rebuild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Empire Club of Canada Presents: Future-Ready? Understanding AI's Future Impact In Partnership with The University of Toronto. Join us for this Evening Event focused on Future-Ready? Understanding AI's Future Impact. Sven Dickinson, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the Samsung Toronto AI Research Center Sven Dickinson received the B.A.Sc. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and is also Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the new Samsung Toronto AI Research Center, which opened in May, 2018. Prior to that, he was a faculty member at Rutgers University where he held a joint appointment between the Department of Computer Science and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, RuCCS. His research interests revolve around the problem of shape perception in computer vision and, more recently, human vision. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Government of Ontario Premiere's Research Excellence Award, PREA, and the Lifetime Research Achievement Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, CIPPRS. He currently serves on eight editorial boards, including the role of Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and the role of co-editor of the Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, IAPR. Speaker: Sven Dickinson, Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; Vice President, Chief Scientist, and Head of the Samsung Toronto AI Research Center *The content presented is free of charge but please note that the Empire Club of Canada retains copyright. Neither the speeches themselves nor any part of their content may be used for any purpose other than personal interest or research without the explicit permission of the Empire Club of Canada.* *Views and Opinions Expressed Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the speakers or panelists are those of the speakers or panelists and do not necessarily reflect or represent the official views and opinions, policy or position held by The Empire Club of Canada.*

There are so many options out there when it comes to keeping athletes at peak-performance that it’s hard to know where to start. Balancing exercise and nutrition with all the other factors of an athlete's life is complicated. Luckily, we’ve brought in Shawn Arent, the expert on this topic to share some of his extensive knowledge and experience with us.  Dr. Shawn Arent is a professor of kinesiology at Rutgers University, where he is the Director of the Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance. He’s also the president of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He’s been training young athletes for years and joins us today to tell us all about it.  On this episode, we talk about how to measure an athlete’s performance and prescribe exercise and nutrition regimens that keep them healthy and at the top of their game. We discuss several topics that are often misrepresented to the point of confusion and dive deep into the cutting edge of sports fitness. How do you keep track of athletic fitness? What trends in fitness do you subscribe to? Let us know in the comments!   In This Episode What are the best foundational strategies for athletic exercise and nutrition Methods for monitoring an athlete’s exercise, nutrition, and stress and how to use that data effectively How to specifically help college athletes with their unique and complex requirements Why focussing on optimal levels isn’t useful and why it's better to look at an individual’s particular circumstances How to use biomarkers and performance markers to keep athletes at their peak and prescribe the best training and nutrition regimen possible Which supplements are best for athletes and how the research supports the data   Quotes “When you fix an athlete’s diet and their recovery strategies, they quickly realize that they have been existing in a world where they were tired but they just thought that was a natural product of their training. All of a sudden they feel good. It’s a completely different revelation.” [6:02]  “We don’t necessarily look at what’s the ideal level but what’s the relative change for that athlete as well.” [18:55] “There is certainly an aesthetic concern [to training] and I find that the sooner you acknowledge that, help educate on it, don’t dismiss it, but take it into account with everything else you're doing it's easier to get the athletes to follow along” [39:00]   Resources Take 1 minute to subscribe for free & review Muscle Medicine on iTunes! Find Dr. Shawn Arent on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram   Rutgers Center for Health and Human Performance International Society of Sports Nutrition Blueprint for Athletes Quest Diagnostics   Check out the full show notes for this episode here Urban Wellness Clinic Follow Emily & Urban Wellness on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

Carol is joined byRyan Marshall, CEO at Pulte Group, to discuss the state of the U.S. housing market. Julia Coronado, President and Founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, talks about Fed policy and interest rate hikes. Karen Dynan, Economics Professor at Harvard University, discusses millennial home buyers. Gary Kain, CEO at AGNC REIT, explains why he feels good about home loans post mortgage crisis. Professor Morris Davis, Academic Director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate, breaks down the future of housing finance. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Carol is joined byRyan Marshall, CEO at Pulte Group, to discuss the state of the U.S. housing market. Julia Coronado, President and Founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, talks about Fed policy and interest rate hikes. Karen Dynan, Economics Professor at Harvard University, discusses millennial home buyers. Gary Kain, CEO at AGNC REIT, explains why he feels good about home loans post mortgage crisis. Professor Morris Davis, Academic Director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate, breaks down the future of housing finance.

Given November 6th, 2017 at Rutgers University this lecture was sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion

It’s tick season, and those little buggers are biting with a vengeance this year. For many, ticks and other outdoor pests can put a damper on our favorite outdoor summer activities. It’s important to follow safety precautions to avoid these unwelcome guests on your summer adventures. Jim Occi, PhD graduate student in Entomology at Rutgers University, sits down with Bob Bostock to tell us more about these pesky pests. To learn more about how DEP deals with mosquitoes, please visit http://www.nj.gov/dep/mosquito/ To learn more about Rutgers’ Center for Vector Biology, please visit http://vectorbio.rutgers.edu/ To view Jim Occi’s website and tick photography, please visit http://jimocci.photoshelter.com/gallery/Ticks-of-the-World/G0000SbPGLWQHnPU/

Steve G. Jones board certified  Clinical Hypnotherapist .He has been practicing hypnotherapy since the 1980s. He is the author of 22 books on Hypnotherapy. He is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Hypnotherapy, president of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, on the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Lung Association, and director of the California state registered Steve G. Jones School of Hypnotherapy Bruce Clarke currently President of the International Turfgrass Society.  He is also the Director of the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and an Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology at Rutgers University.  Dr. Clarke is an authority on the identification and control of diseases of cool-season grasses.  He has published three books on turfgrass pathology, and is a frequent speaker at educational conferences David Taylor-Klaus learned the hard way that putting one's business ahead of one's life is a slow form of suicide. He turned it around and, now in his 3rd decade as a successful serial entrepreneur, David reintroduces successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to their families For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a seminal figure in the addiction field. All Treatment awarded him the Best Academic Addiction Blog for 2012. Dr. Peele has developed the on-line Life Process Addiction Program . His most recent book (with Ilse Thompson) is Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The Life Process Program. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction, and self-cure of addiction. He has presented these ideas and data in a series of twelve books—including Love and Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child—and over 250 professional and popular articles. Recognition for his academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance. Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction.

Steve G. Jones board certified  Clinical Hypnotherapist .He has been practicing hypnotherapy since the 1980s. He is the author of 22 books on Hypnotherapy. He is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Hypnotherapy, president of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, on the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Lung Association, and director of the California state registered Steve G. Jones School of Hypnotherapy Bruce Clarke currently President of the International Turfgrass Society.  He is also the Director of the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and an Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology at Rutgers University.  Dr. Clarke is an authority on the identification and control of diseases of cool-season grasses.  He has published three books on turfgrass pathology, and is a frequent speaker at educational conferences David Taylor-Klaus learned the hard way that putting one's business ahead of one's life is a slow form of suicide. He turned it around and, now in his 3rd decade as a successful serial entrepreneur, David reintroduces successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to their families For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!  

Steve G. Jones board certified  Clinical Hypnotherapist .He has been practicing hypnotherapy since the 1980s. He is the author of 22 books on Hypnotherapy. He is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Hypnotherapy, president of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, on the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Lung Association, and director of the California state registered Steve G. Jones School of Hypnotherapy Bruce Clarke currently President of the International Turfgrass Society.  He is also the Director of the Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science and an Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology at Rutgers University.  Dr. Clarke is an authority on the identification and control of diseases of cool-season grasses.  He has published three books on turfgrass pathology, and is a frequent speaker at educational conferences David Taylor-Klaus learned the hard way that putting one's business ahead of one's life is a slow form of suicide. He turned it around and, now in his 3rd decade as a successful serial entrepreneur, David reintroduces successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to their families For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!

Dr. Carlos chats with Ibram X. Kendi. He is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. He authored the award-winning book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972. He has received research fellowships, grants, and visiting appointments from a variety of universities, foundations, professional associations, and libraries, including the American Historical Association, Library of Congress, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation, Lyndon B. Johnson Library & Museum, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Brown University, Princeton University, Duke University, University of Chicago, and UCLA. Before entering academia, he worked as a journalist. His writings appeared in The Virginian-Pilot, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Philadelphia Weekly, and the Orlando Sentinel, among other publications. As a professor, he has contributed pieces to a number of publications, including Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Root.com. He lives in Florida.

  Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a seminal figure in the addiction field.  Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction, and self-cure of addiction. If you spend some time with Stanton Peele, it won’t take long to realize that he asks a lot of questions! Here we have taken the opportunity to turn the tables, and Dr. Horvath will be the one with the questions.  There are several areas in which SMART’s focus and opinions and those of Dr. Peele differ. For instance, according to W.R.Miller "The best predictors of relapse for people treated for alcohol problems are lack of coping skills and belief in the disease theory of alcoholism.” Tom focuses on the former, Stanton on the latter. Listen to these two colleagues and friends discuss this difference in their focus -- and watch the fur fly!This is an unparalleled opportunity to hear a truly broad-based discussion on addiction in the context of the latest in research and treatment by two unsurpassed experts. We have no doubt that this will be a lively and intriguing discussion, and there will be plenty of time for questions from the audience as well. This is a don’t miss! Dr. Peele has developed the online Life Process Addiction Program. His most recent book, with Ilse Thompson, is Recover!: Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The PERFECT Program, available at Amazon. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, He has presented these ideas and data in a series of twelve books and over 250 professional and popular articles. All Treatment awarded him the Best Academic Addiction Blog for 2012.  Recognition for his academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance.  Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction. Tom Horvath, Ph.D., is a California licensed and board certified clinical psychologist (ABPP).  He has been President of SMART Recovery® for over a decade and is the founder and president of Practical Recovery, a self-empowering addiction treatment system in San Diego. He is past president of the American Psychological Association’s Society on Addiction Psychology, the world’s largest organization of addiction psychologists.  He is also the author of Sex, Drugs, Gambling & Chocolate: A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions (listed by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies as a “Self-Help Book of Merit”).  SMART Recovery depends on your donations! Please visit SMART Recovery or Click the Donate button below.  © 2014 SMART Recovery®.   Music created and copyright 2014 Donald Sheeley with unlimited use as is donated to SMART Recovery.

Listen as we go live again with the Professor Fernando Uribe and Rutgers students as they discuss the issues that need to transpire if we were to bring jobs back to the home front.  What does Nafta have to do with this?  How about outsourcing.  The issue of the Obama administration misleading the Amerian people about the cover up on what happened that lead to  the death of the US Ambassabor and others in Libya.  Rutgers Center of Mathmaics to receive 10 million dollars to develop a software program that goes through social media to detect suspicious behavior. This program is sponsored by Campusteaparties.com For more information go to campusteaparties.com or log onto the blog at campusteaparties.com/blog/  

Hundreds of thousands of black students, aided on some campuses by white and Latino students, demanded and protested for a relevant learning experience. At upwards of 1,000 traditionally white and historically black colleges and universities in the United States, black campus activists initiated a range of campus reforms, including the addition of more black students, faculty, administrators, and coaches, and the establishment of black cultural centers and Black Studies courses and programs. Their ultimate aim was to diversify and thus transform higher education. This Black Campus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s is the subject of this presentation. Speaker Biography: Dr. Ibram H. Rogers is a postdoctoral fellow in the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in New Brunswick, N.J. His writings have been published in several academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. He earned his doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University. His dissertation is the first full length study on what he calls the Black Campus Movement, the struggle of newly arrived Black students in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who demanded the diversification of higher education. They organized BSUs and successfully fought for Black Studies departments and courses, Black Cultural Centers, and the increase of Black students, faculty, administrators, and coaches. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5188.

Brooklyn Siren Capathia Jenkins and Chicago Tunesmith Louis Rosen bring “Brilliant” (NY Magazine) Melodies to Freight & Salvage Oct. 22, 2010. They have two days in Southern CA, Oct. 20-21.Visit capathiajenkins.com Martin Baer is a cameraman, author and director. As an author, director and cameraman he has realized films that focus in particular on historical topics and on Africa (“Free Africa!”, “White Ghosts – The Colonial War against the Herero”, “Kinshasa Symphony”). Kinshasa Symphony screens at the Mill Valley Film Festival Thursday, Oct. 14, 7 PM at Rafael & Sat., Oct. 16, 4:45 PM at Sequoia in Mill Valley. Visit www.kinshasa-symphony.com Donna Jean Murch is an associate professor at Rutgers where she teaches African American and urban history. She received her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2004. She is speaking about her new book: Living for the City: Migration, Education and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, at the Oakland Main Library, Oct. 14, 6:30-7:30 PM as a part of Black Panther Party History Month. She is also co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis from 2010-2012, lives in Harlem and has written more broadly on film and culture. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE THE STORY OF FISHBONE: LEV ANDERSON (co-director, co-producer) & CHRIS METZLER (co-director, co-producer). Visit http://www.fishbonedocumentary.com/ The film opens SF DocFest and features a concert with the artists profiled in the film. The film is also simultaneously screening at the Mill Valley Film Festival with a final screening there, Fri., Oct. 15. There is another screening at DocFest over the next two weeks: Oct. 14-28 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. Visit http://www.sfindie.com/ EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is a documentary about the band Fishbone, African American rock musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years focusing on lead singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher. www.fishbonedocumentary.com/