As Women's History Month draws to a close, check out Rutgers-Newark's social media pages, which have been featuring RU-N sororities. This week, the sisters of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, with its motto of multiculturalism, have been in the spotlight.
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One year after the sale of recreational cannabis was legalized in New Jersey, 78 percent of residents agree that its medicinal benefits outweigh potential risks and harms, and 58 percent said the same about the benefits of recreational use, according to a New Jersey State Policy Lab survey.
Three short documentaries on young refugees created by the Newest Americans at Rutgers-Newark will be screened Thursday at the Newark Museum of Art, followed by a panel discussion about the challenges faced by refugee youth and how to create opportunities for them.Â
Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor delivered an annual address to the Rutgers University Senate on March 24.
Johanna Bond, an accomplished academic leader and legal scholar, will be the new dean of Rutgers Law School beginning July. Bond will join Rutgers after serving as Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law, an endowed chair in the School of Law at Washington and Lee University.
School of Arts and Sciences-Newark alumna Stephanie Jones-Rogers has won the Dan David Prize, the largest history award in the world.
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The Sawyer Seminar explored the relationship between Black communities, both native-born and immigrant, and the question of American citizenship.
Rutgers-Newark's Office of Global Initiatives and Experiential Learning programs offer undergraduate students the opportunity to travel the world, advancing efforts involving education, public health and sustainability.
 Rutgers University – Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor remembers  State Senator Ron Rice as a "revered alumnus.''
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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?Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â