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Rutgers Club opens bar at Livingston Commons CHRISTIAN ZAPATA NEWS EDITOR
All students have access to the Rutgers Club but only those with a membership and who are over 21 can purchase alcohol. The club moved to the second floor of the Livingston Dining Commons last year after being on the College Avenue campus. RUTGERS.EDU
Students, especially those living on Livingston campus, now have more choices for weekday and weekend afternoon plans. The recently renovated Rutgers Club on top of the Livingston Dining Commons features state-of-the-art video and teleconferencing system, bar, meeting spaces, an outdoor balcony and approximately twice as much space as its previous location on the College Avenue campus, according to an article from Rutgers Today. The bar, which makes use of the room’s high ceilings, serves signature drinks such as “Rutgers in Your Blood” made with juice from
blood oranges and the “Scarlet Tito-rita,” according to the article. Students over the age of 21 are eligible for five-year memberships at the club at a $1 yearly-rate. While the club is open to all Rutgers students, they must have a membership in order to purchase alcohol. A membership at the Rutgers Club comes with menu items crafted by award-winning chefs, access to exclusive events, buffet specials, access to the bar with up to nine guests at a time and reciprocity with more than 100 University clubs throughout the world, according to the official site. “I like to think of it as the living room of Rutgers—New Brunswick SEE BAR ON PAGE 4
Bear saliva found to have life-saving use CLAIRE LACY STAFF WRITER
A team of scientists from Rutgers contributed to discovering a way to use saliva from an East Siberian brown bear to test potentially lifesaving antibiotics. With this recently discovered method of testing antibiotics, bacterium from a wild animal’s mouth is tested to see if it contains harmful bacteria. In the study with the brown bear, its saliva samples were placed in oil droplets and machines sorted through them until one was
found without bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. “Placing single species of bacteria in droplets allows us to monitor their responses to various insults, such as antibiotics, while avoiding interactions in complex microbiomes, such as our own. Our method should allow us to test how our microbiome responds and changes when various drugs are administered,” said Konstantin Severinov, co-author of the study and professor in the Depar tment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistr y at the University.
When examining the saliva sample from the bear, scientists discovered that an antibiotic called amicoumacin stopped the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, according to the experiment’s study. Exotic sources of microbiota, such as that of bear saliva, are unexplored resources for discovering antibiotics, according to the study’s abstract. “The bear was chosen largely because it was captured way out in the wilderness where, it was assumed, microbes typical for the species and not affected by civilization are present,” Severinov said.
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers launched a partnership to create a statewide academic health system. It is expected to invest more than $1 billion over two decades. JEFFREY GOMEZ
U. cancer center appoints new chief of Breast Surgery CLAIRE LACY STAFF WRITER
Rutgers researchers said that exotic sources, such as the bear saliva used in this study, are largely unexplored resources for the further study of antibiotics. The bear’s saliva was tested to see if it contained harmful bacteria. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Dr. Margaret Michele Blackwood was named the new chief of Breast Surgery at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey yesterday. Blackwood’s role as chief of Breast Surgery will consist of her working with the team in the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center. “Under Dr. Blackwood’s leadership I am confident that our surgical team
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will continue to be recognized as leaders who are on the forefront of treatment and research,” said Dr. H. Richard Alexander, chief surgical officer and chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute. According to a press release, Blackwood is also the medical director and northern regional director of Breast Services for Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health. SEE CHIEF ON PAGE 4