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Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. Fire Alarm Systems Technician (rutgers.edu) — Rutgers University–New Brunswick is hiring full-time Fire Alarm Systems Technicians to maintain and repair alarm systems across the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses, with applications due by October 9 for union members. Local candidates with fire alarm or related technical training, a valid driver's license, and willingness to work rotating shifts can earn competitive pay plus full university benefits.
2. Director, World Model & Agentic Learning (jnj.com) — Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Director of World Model & Agentic Learning, and one of the primary office options is New Brunswick with a hybrid schedule. Local AI and data science professionals could lead a new enterprise-wide generative AI effort supporting drug discovery and development, working closely with scientific and technology teams across the company.
3. Teaching Instructor or Assistant Teaching Professor (rutgers.edu) — If you live in or near New Brunswick and work in animal or life sciences, Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is hiring a full-time Teaching Instructor or Assistant Teaching Professor on the Cook campus. The role focuses on animal science teaching, advising hundreds of undergraduates, and offers competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to shape pre-veterinary and companion animal programs right in the city.
4. Young RWJBarnabas Health Patients Celebrate Disease-Free Milestone Following Advanced Sickle Cell Treatments (newswise.com) — Families in New Brunswick should know that local pediatric patients with sickle cell disease are now celebrating being disease-free for over a year after advanced bone marrow transplants and gene therapy at Rutgers Cancer Institute and Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital. The program, based at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, offers cutting-edge treatments and multidisciplinary support, giving children across New Jersey access to potentially curative care close to home.
5. Mayida Zaal (montclair.edu) — A Montclair State University professor's bio highlights that she previously taught math and science to middle schoolers in New Brunswick drawing on that classroom experience in her research on immigrant-origin youth and social justice education. Her work now focuses on preparing teachers for diverse settings and developing participatory action research curricula used in local and international schools.
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