More languages are spoken in New Jersey than almost any other state, yet there is a critical shortage of translators. Students and faculty from the Lives in Translation program are helping to fill the void.
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First-generation graduate students face a different set of dilemmas than first-gen undergrads. A new program provides support and a sense of belonging for those seeking advanced degrees.
A Rutgers-Newark study reveals a little-known burden for African American mothers: Giving birth to multiple children might be linked to developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Rutgers University–Newark has named Bonnie Veysey, a professor and former interim dean of the School of Criminal Justice, as Executive Vice Chancellor and Interim Provost. She started her role on July 1.
Rutgers University–Newark Provost Jeffrey Robinson, an internationally known author and co-founder of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, steps into his role as Rutgers-Newark Interim Chancellor.
Express Newark’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence Jasmine Mans won literary acclaim and commercial success for her 2021 poetry collection Black Girl, Call Home, which explores Mans’ queer Black identity, her roots in Newark, and the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.
For many years, Glenda Wright has been advocating for the interests of residents of public and other federally-subsidized housing. She now works to spread the news that a healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of dementia.
The Pathway for Junior Scientists program, a new Rutgers-Newark initiative partnering with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) is designed to help undergrads get the research hours they need – without leaving the city.
Gary Santos Mendoza, director of Rutgers-Newark's Intercultural Resource Center, had a hard time finding acceptance in college as a queer Latino man, an experience that motivated him to provide support for LGBTQ students. He recently received national recognition for his work.
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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.