The Daily Targum 2010-11-11

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THE DAILY TARGUM

Volume 142, Number 50

S E R V I N G

T H E

R U T G E R S

C O M M U N I T Y

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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2010

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Today: Sunny

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U. strives to assist student veterans BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As people across the country celebrate Veterans Day, the University is taking strides to enhance its resources for the men and women who served our country. Vice President for Student Affairs Gregor y S. Blimling said the University is more equipped than ever to assist veterans, adding today’s events celebrating Veterans Day are the most in recent years. “I think this shows the University’s new emphasis on

trying to respond to the needs of our student veterans,” he said. “In the past three years, we have actually increased the number of student veterans at Rutgers by 42 percent.” By enhancing the resources for student veterans provided by the University, Blimling said the number of these students could only be expected to increase over the next few years. Among the many resources provided by the University is the Of fice of Veterans Ser vices, directed

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Some business owners are frustrated about the delays the George Street Beautification Project has caused. The city announced that the project, which will be completed next year, will be put on hold during the winter.

Downtown construction slows businesses BY RYAN FLOOD STAFF WRITER

Some local businesses along George Street are feeling the ef fects of a constr uction project that has shut down traf fic for several months in some areas of downtown New Brunswick. Overall, the downtown needed a makeover, said Glenn Patterson, director of planning for the City of New Brunswick. The infrastructure was in bad condition, and the deteriorated sidewalks and roads posed safety hazards, making the George Street Beautification Project necessar y.

While officials say the project, which is paving George Street and improving the sidewalks, will help the city in the long term, local proprietors say it is causing them some trouble right now. “The constr uction is slowing things down a lot,” said Oleida Larios, a saleswoman at Safa’s Jewelr y. “You add the economy with the construction, it gets worse and worse. Christmas is right around the corner, so we are hoping they finish soon.” The Project, which will be completed next year, will be put on hiatus during the winter, but construction will resume again in the spring, Patterson said.

The lack of through traf fic and a reduction in the number of pedestrians walking down George Street are points of concer n for some storeowners, like Extreme manager Paul Lee. “The construction has slowed things down,” Lee said. “There’s less people driving and less students passing by.” Some businesses with multiple branches obser ved that patrons have been looking to alternate locations to conduct their business since the beginning of construction.

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Ben Bailey, comedian and host of the Discovery Channel game show “Cash Cab,” performs stand up last night in the Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

Professor’s research receives national recognition PERSON OF THE WEEK BY AMBIKA SUBRAMANYAM STAFF WRITER

Rutgers-Newark Department of Psychology Assistant Professor Mauricio Delgado began doing research as an undergraduate and has always wondered what it would be like to make a career out of his work in the future. “My connection with the mere idea of research was immediate,” said Delgado, who did his undergraduate work at Wesleyan University. “I remember thinking how great it would be to actually pursue [research] as a career.” Now director of the Delgado Lab for Social and Affective Neuroscience at Rutgers-Newark, Delgado has been named one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, selected by President Barack Obama. Announced last week, the award is the highest honor bestowed

upon scientists and engiin the years ahead,” Obama neers in the early stages said in the release. of their research careers, Delgado said it is an and recipients receive up honor to receive this award to a five-year research and have his work at the grant as well as the opporUniversity recognized on a tunity to meet the national level. president, according to “It gives me great a White House pleasure and pride to press release. know that the work we MAURICIO Awarded by the presihave star ted here at DELGADO dents’ Executive Of fice of Rutgers is being recogScience and Technology, recipients nized,” he said. are selected based on their early Delgado focuses his research on innovative research at the fore- the interaction of emotion and cognifront of science and the promise tion in the human brain during learnthey show for assuring America’s ing and decision-making. excellence in science, according to Fueled by the passion he felt for the release. research and the fellowships won “I am confident that these individ- during his undergraduate career, uals, who have shown such tremen- Delgado headed to University of dous promise so early in their Pittsburgh for graduate school to careers, will go on to make break- pursue research on this topic. throughs and discoveries that will There he completed his doctoral continue to move our nation forward dissertation on the question that

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intrigued him the most — how do humans learn about positive and negative values, and how do we use this information to inform our decision-making? This is a question that still interests Delgado today and one he continues to research. He came to Rutgers-Newark in 2006 and created the Delgado Lab for Social and Af fective Neuroscience after completing his Ph.D. in Pittsburgh and a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. “The lab’s mission follows my original research questions that have evolved over the years,” Delgado said. Since joining the University, Delgado has mentored many graduate students in the psychology department.

A couple studies how testosterone links politics with pornography.

OPINIONS The FDA comes up with 36 graphic labels to put on cigarette boxes to deter smokers.

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