Martin Blaser has been named the new director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. He will assume the new position in late January.

Rutgers University-Camden junior Bielka Gonzalez credits an internship with accounting and consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers with helping her confirm she’s on the right professional path.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 23,000 people in the U.S. die annually from multidrug resistance. About 2 million more don’t respond to treatment, leading to increased severity of disease, time spent in the ICU, loss in quality of life and increased health care costs.

The Rutgers University Board of Governors approved spending $65 million to build a football game-day locker room and an 80,000-square foot building that will serve 700 student-athletes, at a Thursday meeting.

Kean University has replaced its television studio equipment with new high-definition equipment that is the standard in studios and newsrooms around the world.

A new Rutgers University-led, $12.5 million federally funded project is working to improve screening of sexually transmitted infections and treatment practices in some of the nation’s hardest-hit locales, especially among people living with or at risk for HIV.

Rutgers University said Thursday it had reached agreements and ratified contracts with five of its 24 labor unions.

New Jersey City University senior Romina Generali is saving money by living in a building on campus at West Campus Village at University Place, which was built as part of an ongoing $400 million redevelopment project.

More than 300 high school students from Bergen, Passaic and Hudson counties gathered at the Youth World AIDS Day Conference sponsored by the AIDS Outreach Program at Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center on Friday at the Clinton Inn Hotel in Tenafly.