Dr. Richard Marlink. (File photo)
Dr. Richard Marlink, the director of the Rutgers Global Health Institute, will be featured on a webinar on all things COVID-19 (including the latest Johnson & Johnson vaccine) and population health.
The webinar is presented and hosted by James Barrood, a well-known figure in the New Jersey tech community.
Marlink, the inaugural Henry Rutgers Professor of Global Health, came to Rutgers University in the summer of 2017 after two decades at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he served as the executive director of the Harvard AIDS Institute.
The webinar will discuss a number of issues, including:
January 27, 2021
Join Next City for the first of two virtual conversations in our series, “The Future of Monumentality,” as we examine the past, present, and future of public monuments from the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism. The speaker series, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, is co-presented in partnership with the High Line.
In 2020 communities around the world protested the institutional racism of police violence toward Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people the same people who have experienced disproportionately devastating health effects and economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most powerful symbols engaged by these protests has been the removal and defacing of monuments, as well as their use as focal points and backdrops for rallies, speeches, performances, and collections of protest signs. And as the disturbing insurrection in Washington, D.C., has shown, white supremacists continue to wield and deface monuments
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As part of its social justice public art initiative, the City of Newark collaborated with hundreds of activists, community members, and artists to make definitive statements on, literally, two of the city’s better-known streets. Halsey Street, adjacent to Rutgers University–Newark, now has a mural featuring 25-foot-tall letters painted in traffic-yellow brightness that spell ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard now bears the words ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY.
Among the artists contributing were students in the graphic design program in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers–Newark. The collaboration reunited community members in a city and an art scene hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Chantal Fischzang, an assistant professor in the program, organized 40 students to work with 40 local artists to draft and outline the mural’s letterforms. The Murals for Justice Newark were designed using a typeface called Martin, named for Marti
PHILADELPHIA Next City today announces it is partnering with the High Line to present “The Future of Monumentality,” a speaker series at the unique intersection of art, design, and urbanism.
This series of two panels, moderated by New York Times critic Salamishah Tillet, will be held on January 27 and 28 and are open now for registration at nextcity.org. The series engages artists, historians, government leaders, and placemakers on the subject of public monuments, examining the civic, aesthetic, and historical contexts these influential objects inhabit.
Government officials, artists, historians, and protestors have faced renewed debates on the role of monuments in public spaces, particularly as many of these statues often seen as symbols of structural racism and other inequities served as prominent backdrops to protests in cities around the world throughout the past year and earlier. Inspired by these ongoing debates, the Future of Monumentality Speaker Series asks: Who det
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IMAGE: Trillions of microorganisms make up the human microbiome, which may hold the key to improving health. view more
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Antibiotics for cesarean section births are just as effective when they re given after the umbilical cord is clamped as before clamping - the current practice - and could benefit newborns developing microbiomes, according to Rutgers co-authored research.
The study, by far the largest of its kind and published in the journal
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, challenges current recommendations for antibiotic use. Administering antibiotics after clamping does not increase the risk of infection at the site of C-section incisions, the study concludes.