Rutgers Expert Can Discuss Beachwater Quality, Monitoring With Underwater Gliders
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Laura Weigert, director of Medieval Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and an expert in medieval architecture, is available to discuss the significance of the Notre-Dame cathedral fire.
Laura Wiegert, director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, is available to discuss the misuse of medieval icons in white supremacist rhetoric, as well as common misperceptions about the racial diversity of Europe during the Middle Ages.
At Rutgers-New Brunswick and other U.S. universities, the study of philosophy remains mostly white and male, but a new course on African, Latin American, and Native American philosophy is expanding the canon to include voices that speak directly to fundamental philosophical topics as well as urgent issues such as immigration, cultural appropriation and the #MeToo movement.
Dr. Anthony Tobia, a – psychiatrist at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School explains why the Grinch stole Christmas, and uses holiday stories to study symptoms of mental illness in his psychology courses at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and on his Psychology Today blog.