Mussab Ali was just 20 years old—and still a student at Rutgers University–Newark—when he became the youngest elected official in Jersey City’s history and the first Muslim to win public office after joining the school board.
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A Rutgers-led conference on Alzheimer's disease held in Tel Aviv, Israel, earlier this month provided a platform for leading researchers and students from both the United States and Israel to share their latest findings on understanding, preventing, and treating Alzheimer's.
The Rutgers Board of Governors named John Keene, an award-winning prolific writer, translator, and artist in a variety of genres and formats – including nonfiction, poetry, fiction, essays, and critical work – a Board of Governors Professor of English.
When Yanela Frias, the first woman to be named CFO of Prudential Financial, looks out her office window from the company’s headquarters in downtown Newark, she can see the Golden Dome Athletic Center and other landmarks of the Rutgers-Newark campus where her higher educational journey began.
Rutgers-Newark Interim Chancellor Jeffrey Robinson announced new leadership changes that will begin on July 1.
The Capitol Hill Policy Fellowship Program—a partnership between the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America and national nonprofit Braven—is placing six undergraduate students in congressional internships in Washington, D.C.
Rutgers-Newark has awarded nine grants to advance efforts that encourage understanding and enable relationship-building on campus and within the city.
Ramy Youssef, who gave Rutgers-Newark’s commencement address, also stopped by Express Newark arts center for a screening of his new animated series #1 Happy Family USA about a Muslim boy coming of age in the aftermath of 9/11.
Some join the BOLD Women Leadership Network at Rutgers-Newark as leaders in their schools or communities. For others, BOLD is the first step toward becoming a leader.
RU–N Impact
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.