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SUPERIOR, Colo., March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Key Equipment Finance, one of the nation's largest bank-held equipment finance companies and an affiliate of KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) today announced that the company is financing a solar system installation at Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey. SunDurance Energy, a leading national solar provider, is the solar integrator for the project. The university is installing more than 40,000 high-efficiency solar panels mounted...

PISCATAWAY, N.J., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of people joined Fedcap (http://www.fedcap.org/), Rutgers University's School of Social Work (http://socialwork.rutgers.edu/iff/) and The Moore Center (http://moorecenter.org) on Friday to brainstorm solutions to the national crisis of disconnected youth. Millions of 16-24-year-olds aren't in school or viable employment. Many have spent time in child welfare and/or juvenile justice, many lack family or other stable...

Nine universities, led by SJSU's Mineta Transportation Institute, join efforts to improve transit. SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mineta Transportation Institute (transweb.sjsu.edu) and eight other leading university transportation centers, functioning together as the Mineta National Transit Research Consortium (MNTRC), have now begun operating under a $3.49 million grant from the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The funds, which...

Genome analysis of “living fossil” sheds light on the evolution of plants Atmospheric oxygen really took off on our planet about 2.4 billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event. At this key juncture of our planet’s evolution, species had either to learn to cope with this poison that was produced by photosynthesizing cyanobacteria or they went extinct. It now seems strange to think that the gas that sustains much of modern life had such a distasteful beginning. So how and...

A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. The results help explain why some people struggle when placed on a low-fat diet and may one day assist people in selecting diets that are easier for them to follow. The results also may help food developers create new low-fat foods that taste better. "Fat is universally...

Blocking cell-to-cell communication may prevent liver damage and improve drug safety, Rutgers University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel strategy to protect the liver from drug-induced injury and improve associated drug safety. In a report receiving advance online publication in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the team reports that inhibiting a type of cell-to-cell communication can protect against damage caused by liver-toxic drugs such as...

[ Watch Video 1 ] | [ Watch Video 2 ] An extremely hot, massive young galaxy cluster — the largest ever seen in the distant Universe — has been studied by an international team using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert in Chile along with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The new results are being announced on 10 January 2012 at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. The newly discovered...

WEST ORANGE, N.J., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Barry H. Ostrowsky was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Barnabas Health, effective January 1, 2012, announced Albert R. Gamper, Jr., Chairman of the Board. Mr. Ostrowsky is responsible for the State's largest health care delivery system that provides treatment and services for more than two million patients each year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120103/NY29105 ) Mr. Ostrowsky, who succeeds...

Fifteen years ago, textbooks on human development stated that babies 6 months of age or younger had no sense of "object permanence" – the psychological term that describes an infant's belief that an object still exists even when it is out of sight. That meant that if mom or dad wasn't in the same room with junior, junior didn't have the sense that his parents were still in the world. These days, psychologists know that isn't true: for young babies, out of sight doesn't automatically mean...

Scientists have developed a system that will make drivers unable to talk on their cell phones while driving. A team at Stevens Institute of Technology and Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a system that shuts down a driver's phone without affecting other people in the vehicle. The system uses a phone's Bluetooth connection and a vehicle's speaker to detect if a driver is using their phone while driving. The system then measures the acoustic signals emitted from the stereo...