Rutgers-Newark is planning to partner with the University of the Virgin Islands on a program that would bring graduate students pursuing STEM careers to Rutgers-Newark.
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Alzheimer’s early detection tests using video games developed by Rutgers-Newark researchers may help spot the disease years before symptoms are noticeable and provide a non-invasive form of dementia screening.
Rutgers-Newark professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Salamishah Tillet was honored by Gov. Phil Murphy at a Women’s History Month ceremony held at Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion.
Pulitzer prize-winning professor Salamishah Tillet has joined the newest cohort of Emerson Collective Fellows, a nationwide program that encourages people of exceptional talent to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.
Hosted on April 9 by the Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health (REACH), this University-wide symposium features keynote speaker, Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author of Poverty, by America.
Rutgers-Newark–where debate team members have ranked nationally and internationally for more than a decade–hosted a national tournament where participants argued the merits of a U.S. clean energy policy.
Two Rutgers-Newark chemistry experts are among a nationwide group of 42 scientists who received a total of $31 million in federal funding from the United States Department of Energy (DOE).
Images and art by Muslim artists in America and overseas–including portraits of Black Muslims in Newark–were the focus of “Ritual,’’ a months-long series of Express Newark programs launched at a recent opening.
For Black women who succeed as politicians, the job is fraught with challenges. But their insights into the lives of constituents-- and the political system itself--are invaluable to democracy, government leaders and faculty agreed at a Rutgers-Newark Black History Month event.
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A Rutgers-Newark program that helps parents provide literacy support in Newark schools has done more than improve children’s reading skills. The parents also serve as “cultural brokers,” bridging gaps between a teaching staff of mostly white suburban women and the district’s families, who are predominately Black.
Within three years, nearly half of Newark’s residential property was sold to corporate buyers, a model designed to enrich investors through returns from rent collection, and a nationwide trend that can displace residents and impede home ownership, according to a Rutgers University—Newark report titled Who Owns Newark?
For an organization that leans on collective work with many stakeholders, a global pandemic poses almost insurmountable difficulties. Yet the Newark Public Safety Collaborative’s (NPSC) work has not only continued to provide important resources for the greater Newark community but has added new areas of focus to its already expansive reservoir of information.
A collaboration between Rutgers-Newark neuroscience researcher Mark Gluck and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) researcher Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, who studies immune systems and is RBHS provost, was featured in the Daily Beast as a potentially breakthrough study.
Thirty years ago, when Rutgers-Newark alumna Nancy La Vigne entered the field of criminal justice, policy makers paid little attention to data.
Rutgers Business School professor Jeffrey Robinson, an internationally known author and co-founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, has been named Rutgers University—Newark’s new provost and executive vice chancellor.
The challenges of navigating college and law school as an Afro-Latina woman have been a north star for Ednin Martinez, Rutgers-Newark’s new Assistant Dean and Director of Student Compliance.
Rutgers University has selected Dr. Consuella Askew as its new Vice President for University Libraries and University Librarian. On July 18, 2022, she became Rutgers’ 15th University Librarian and the first person of color in the institution’s 256-year history to hold the position.
Rutgers University–Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture, the Pulitzer Prize board announced.
April is Jazz Appreciation month, but Wayne Winborne can list the many reasons jazz should be appreciated every day. Winborne is executive director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark, the world’s largest jazz archive and library, where thousands of LPs are housed along with artifacts such as Miles Davis’ green trumpet and Billie Holiday’s rhinestone jewelry.
Rutgers University–Newark’s BOLD Women’s Leadership Network and Project for Empty Space will unveil a mural created by acclaimed artist Adama Delphine Fawundu and BOLD scholarship students on June 6 at 800 Broad Street in Newark from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The seventy-foot, four-story mural, titled Courage, celebrates the power of womanhood, female identity and ancestral power.