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While the question of whether vitamin E prevents or promotes cancer has been widely debated in scientific journals and in the news media, scientists at the Center for Cancer Prevention Research, at Rutgers Mario School of Pharmacy, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, believe that two forms of vitamin E – gamma and delta-tocopherols – found in soybean, canola and corn oils as well as nuts do prevent colon, lung, breast and prostate cancers.

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Contractors recently installed 16 solar panels atop a roof-top computing facility at Rutgers. Researchers will use it to study effective management of computing with solar power. Ricardo Bianchini, project director, has $1.5 million in NSF grants for research into energy efficiency in computing. He is a co-PI on a $1.5 million grant from Google Inc.

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Two Rutgers health policy experts explain the significance of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the core of President Obama's health care overhaul and what it could mean for individuals as well as the continuing debate over health care.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded two Rutgers researchers nearly $1.4 million as part of an initiative to extract useful information from so-called “big data” – massive collections of data from sources such as scientific instruments, digital images, social media streams and business transactions.

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RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the world’s largest university-based biorepository, has received a $44.5 million award to support its Center for Collaborative Genomics Research on Mental Disorders, which serves NIMH-funded scientists engaged in genomic research on mental disorders. RUCDR is located at Rutgers University.

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Two technologies developed with contributions by Rutgers professors and grad students have been selected for R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Awards.

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The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Rutgers’ Center for Integrative Proteomics Research have formed a new public-private partnership, through which CCDC establish operations in North America housed within the CIPR alongside the RCSB Protein Data Bank. Coincident is the launch of CCDC Inc. to serve user communities across North America.

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For the second in a row, Rutgers leads U.S. universities in federal funding for chemistry R&D, according to a top industry publication. For the first time, Rutgers ranks #1 nationally for chemistry R&D funding from all sources. The rankings are in Chemical and Engineering News.

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Three Rutgers faculty members have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors: Joachim Kohn and Kathryn Uhrich, professors in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Richard Mammone, professor of engineering and business. The academy’s 2013 fellows, announced Dec. 10, include 143 inventors. Among them are nine Nobel Laureates.

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Rutgers School of Criminal Justice app maps high-risk locations