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For the first time since 2019, Rutgers-Newark held an in-person convocation, welcoming 1,845 undergraduate students who were urged by Chancellor Nancy Cantor to be “dreamers and doers.’’
On her own since immigrating at age18, business major Vanesa Freire found resources and stability at RU-N.
Brian Higgins, who graduated from the School of Arts and Sciences-Newark in 2018, recently won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) research fellowship that allows him to use his math and data science skills to explore high-tech ways of measuring water tables at Superfund sites in Newark.
Alisson Lopez is finding her path at the HLLC, where students become change agents. The program, a national model, expands notions of merit.
Braven, a national nonprofit that helps Rutgers-Newark students land strong jobs after graduation, announced that fellows in its program last year had higher rates of job attainment compared with other students in the U.S.
