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Political figures appear to be in a tell-all mood with all the truths their memoirs unveil. Inside Beat compares and evaluates the approaches these civic writers take.
OIT begins test process of new webmail server BY DEVIN SIKORSKI ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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For students who would rather send e-mail through their Gmail account instead of Eden, the University may have what they’re looking for and is closer to implementing it. The Office of Information Technology is testing ScarletMail — a University-modified Gmail account that is part of Google’s program, Apps for Education — with more than 800 students. Students then complete a 10-15 minute task per week to gauge their reactions about the system before its implementation, OIT Associate Director Keri Budnovitch said. “The task can be something like sending a message from ScarletMail to an account outside Rutgers or setting up a calendar,” she said. “The students involved in the beta have provided ver y positive and constructive feedback about the applications.”
The Office of Information Technology is asking more than 800 students to complete a 10-15 minute task each week to assess students’ opinions of ScarletMail, a University-modified Gmail account that is part of Google’s Apps for Education.
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Professor studies relation between senses, movement BY BARIA HAFEEZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The movements of the computerized skeleton matched perfectly with the movement of the participant wired up to the Motion Monitor. Every time the participant moved her arm, the skeleton did the same. Every time she punched, the skeleton did the same. And every time she turned, the skeleton did the same. University psychology Assistant Professor Elizabeth Torres leads the Sensory-Motor Integration Lab of the Psychology Department on
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Busch campus. To put it simply, Torres studies movement. The goal of her project is to determine areas of sensor ymotor integration — how exactly senses are related to movement. Torres hopes that this can help gain further insight into autism spectrum disorders. “We look at how we can maximize the ASD individual’s capabilities and predisposition to learn,” Torres said. “Each individual is different so we need to discover the best sensor y-motor guidance for each person. We need to tailor therapies and
personalize teaching methods specific to each child.” Torres hopes that understanding these differences can help experts come up with a way to instruct people with autism differently and more effectively. This research is part of a larger interdisciplinar y study at the University funded by the National Science Foundation. Torres is the principal investigator of the study and works alongside Dimitris Metaxas, director of the Center for Rutgers
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A professor studies the high number of suicides that occur on the George Washington Bridge.
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OPINIONS House Republicans temporarily block legislation that would have fed children in need.
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University psychology Assistant Professor Elizabeth Torres is working on a project to maximize learning abilities of people with autism spectrum disorder.
Campus sheds light on world AIDS epidemic
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School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Stephen Ziegler explains the rule of thirds to Daniel Leanda at the “Rutgers Pride” photography contest showcase, yesterday at the Cook Campus Center, sponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association.
The 1980s may be remembered for many things, among them Reaganomics, MTV, the space shuttle Challenger and the death of John Lennon, but it may also be remembered for the start of an epidemic that has one of the most widespread and long-lasting effect on American lives. The Byrne Family First-Year Seminar, “Photography and HIV/AIDS,” in conjunction with the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Center for Cultural Analysis, held a campus-wide series of events yesterday for World AIDS Day, nearly two decades after the epidemic’s start. Enrico Cabredo, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student in the seminar, said although stereotypes about gay males or people in Africa exist, AIDS is an illness that does not discriminate.
“It’s really a problem all over the world,” Cabredo said. “We have the means to help prevent HIV and AIDS and how to help suppress it, but because of poverty, it’s not really getting out there so we’re trying to change that.” Students enrolled in the course sold World AIDS Day Tshirts for $5 at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, said Chelsea Callahan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior who helps teach the seminar. School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kim Bowers designed the shirts, and all proceeds will go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Students from the seminar printed the shirts to raise money for pediatric AIDS and to promote their photography exhibit “From Ethiopia to New Jersey: Photography and HIV/AIDS,” at
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