NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley UNICO held its annual raffle drawing on Feb. 4 in support of the club’s scholarship program for Nutley High School seniors. Each year, high school students apply to the Nutley UNICO chapter for the opportunities to win some of more than $32,000 in scholarship funds. Nutley UNICANs sold a total of […]
NUTLEY, NJ — A more efficient and much faster method to assess high levels of neutralizing antibodies to COVID-19 could point the way to better understanding and treatment of the disease, according to new published findings by scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley and the University of Michigan. A […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Bonita Stanton, the founding dean of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, was named to NJBIZ’s “Power 50 for Education,” an annual list of the state’s leaders who in various ways impart “knowledge to students, apprentices and the citizenry at large.” Stanton, who oversaw the establishment of the newly-independent Hackensack Meridian School […]
NUTLEY, NJ — A one-two punch of changing gene expression, then deploying immune checkpoint inhibitors, shows promise in battling one of the most treatment-resistant types of cancer in preclinical models, according to a new publication including authors from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation, located in Nutley. Their research findings published Aug. 14 […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Nutley Police and Fire departments are investigating a fatal fire that took the life of Joseph Collar, 74, according to an Oct. 11 press release from the ECPO. On Saturday, Oct. 10, at approximately 6 p.m., a fire broke out in […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Essex County’s 2020 leaf collection schedule for county roads begins at the end of October. Residents whose properties are on county roads may place their leaves in biodegradable bags or sweep the loose leaves into piles at the curb. To organize leaf collection on county roads, Essex County is divided into […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley has been awarded $619,850 to continue a key drug-discovery program in pursuit of COVID-19 treatments. The drug-discovery program is focused on the assessment of hundreds of drug candidates in the CDI labs to find the most promising potential therapies. “This collaboration intends […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Lauren Valentine and Clara Chen, students at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Nutley, have been recognized as two of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association’s “Rising Stars.” The two women said they are pursuing medicine as a vocation to make a difference in the world. “Studying medicine is more […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The NAACP of the Oranges and Maplewood invites any interested high school students in Millburn, Maplewood, South Orange, West Orange, Livingston, Orange, East Orange, Bloomfield, Belleville, Verona and Nutley to its annual ACT-SO Kickoff Zoom Orientation meeting on Sunday, Oct. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. ACT-SO is the Afro-Academic, Cultural, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey has honored Marley Madureira, 13, with the Medal of Honor, a Lifesaving Award given by Girl Scouts of the United States of America, for saving her mother’s life. The Medal of Honor is given to a Girl Scout who has saved or attempted to save a […]