Meet Our 2019 Student Ambassadors You might encounter them in the admissions office, speak with them on the phone or see them at recruitment activities and school events. Introducing our student ambassadors for Spring 2019: A senior earning her B.S. in Clinical Lab Science, Jasmin enjoys talking to and meeting other [...]
DPT Students Volunteer in Dominican Republic Four students in the Rutgers School of Health Professions physical therapy program spent winter break splitting their time between helping patients in a small Dominican Republic village manage their pain, and doing construction on a sustainable, hurricane-resilient home. The service trip, which brought together students from [...]
Call for Nominations Nominations for the 2018-19 SHP Awards of Excellence are now being accepted. The awards recognize students, faculty, volunteers, and alumni for outstanding accomplishments in their field, or service to the school and larger community. New this year: online submissions process. [...]
Rutgers Student Gives Father Gift of Life Laura Allen always knew her father had only one kidney, a condition present from birth. As a child, she promised he could have one of hers, if he ever needed it. “I said it as kind of a joke,” Laura said. A few months ago, [...]
Student Wins Counseling Award Nada Samo, a student in our M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling program, was the recipient of the Nancy Jaeger Award for Excellence in Counseling. The award was given to Samo by Ramapo College. Samo, a school counselor at Al-Ghazaly Jr./Sr. High School, a private school in Wayne, New Jersey, [...]
Rutgers SHP Researcher Awarded $400,000 NIH Grant DPT faculty member Jean-Francois Daneault, Ph.D., has just received a $400,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health to use wearable and mobile data to diagnose and monitor movement disorders. With the aging population, more people are living with movement disorders but there is a [...]
