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Rutgers University–Newark has partnered with New Arts, a public arts studio at Express Newark, to present a citywide art exhibition featuring archival photographs of Newark in the 1980s created by the multidisciplinary artist Manuel Acevedo across the city’s five wards.
Megan Haughey, a Rutgers alumna and deputy athletic director at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named Rutgers University–Newark's new athletic director, Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson announced yesterday.
Rutgers University–Newark celebrated its 80th anniversary at an event that honored its role as a gateway to opportunity and bedrock of the city and state’s economic and cultural life.
The School of Criminal Justice has joined a Newark program designed to prepare high school students for future careers in public safety, including a pathway into the Newark Police and Fire Divisions, Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka announced.
April 30 is International Jazz Day, but Rutgers–Newark will be celebrating more than music. It will mark a major campus milestone: the 80th anniversary of the date that Rutgers University merged with the University of Newark to become the institution it is today.
On April 30th, 1946, the University of Newark merged with Rutgers University, becoming the Rutgers-Newark we know today. Since then, RU-N has become a gateway to opportunity that fuels economic development and cultural vibrancy in the city, state and beyond.
Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-anchor of MS NOW’s The Weekend, will be the keynote speaker for Rutgers-Newark's commencement ceremony on May 21 at the Prudential Center in Newark.
The Braven career accelerator program at Rutgers-Newark continues to help students find career pathways and job opportunities as it expands statewide. Braven recently opened a new headquarters in Newark and is extending its reach across New Jersey.
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, human judgement will still be essential, according to tech leaders and Rutgers experts, who convened at a recent event hosted by the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS).
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.
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