As the Mexican government prepares to open its first consulate in New Jersey--where the number of Mexican residents is growing--leaders sat down with Rutgers-Newark students, staff and faculty to forge a relationship that could include research efforts.
 Rutgers University – Newark Chancellor Nancy Cantor remembers  State Senator Ron Rice as a "revered alumnus.''
Rutgers-Newark has been awarded a $2.8 million grant to increase digital equity in the city of Newark and on campus, part of a federal program that was announced by Vice President Kamala Harris this week.
The Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center, which builds bridges between diverse groups in New Jersey, has planned many Rutgers-Newark signature events this month to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the National Day of Racial Healing on January 17.
Rock star and Jersey icon Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea helped celebrate the grand reopening of JBJ Soul Kitchen, which fights food insecurity on the Rutgers University–Newark campus through donations and volunteer service.Â
The Newark Museum of Art and Rutgers Newark will host the premiere of two monumental films, Becoming Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom, on September 14.