William F. Tate IV, a renowned social scientist and president of the Louisiana State University (LSU) system since May 2021, has been appointed the 22nd president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
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Graduate Anya Dillard’s recent achievements include being named a Gucci Changemaker and interning with Jordan Peele’s MonkeyPaw Productions
Rutgers University-Newark, which is ranked #5 nationally for social mobility, is touting programs with a high rate of success in helping students from all backgrounds find jobs in their chosen field or earn graduate degrees.
Rutgers-Newark’s 2025 commencement speaker Ramy Youssef – creative force behind the new animated series #1 Happy Family USA and several award-winning films and performances – will be at Express Newark art center on Monday for a screening of his new show and a conversation with Salamishah Tillet, the center's director.
In a competition held around the globe, Rutgers-Newark doctoral students had just three minutes to present their 175,000 word dissertations.
Four Rutgers-Newark faculty members were chosen to receive the Universitywide Year-End Excellence Awards.
Pioneering sociologist Charles Payne, director of the Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies at Rutgers-Newark, was named this year to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rutgers-Newark researchers have released a first-of-its-kind report on how gentrification is—and isn’t— playing out in three mid-sized New Jersey cities: Newark, Paterson and Jersey City.
Former Rutgers-Newark student Ramy Youssef, an award-winning Egyptian-American creator, actor, producer, director, and comedian, will be the keynote speaker at Rutgers University–Newark’s May 22 commencement ceremony.
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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.