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For the second year in a row, Rutgers-Newark is #5 among universities nationwide for social mobility and #1 in New Jersey and the Northeast, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings. It also made the list of the Top #100 universities in America.
Physicist Lucien Dupuy–whose work has captured international recognition--was one of six finalists to receive a Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists, which honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from research institutions across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
As she begins her first full semester as dean of the School of Criminal Justice, Nancy La Vigne plans on leveraging her background as both an alumna and head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s lead science agency.
Rutgers-Newark’s first homecoming in more than a decade, scheduled for October 25, will be a chance for alumni to renew their connections to the university–and to each other–and for the RU-N community to show its pride.
The Rutgers-Newark community gathered to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack while calling for hope, resilience, and caring in the face of tragedy.
Vice-Chancellor and Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives Jennifer Bucalo was among 26 fellows selected by the The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Leadership Academy/La Academia de Liderzago, the association announced.
Rutgers-Newark professor and poet Rigoberto González has won the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to poets and one of the nation’s largest literary cash prizes.
Newark high schooler Jedidah Wilson spent her summer earning college credits and learning how to code as part of Create Academy, a new initiative offered through Rutgers-Newark’s Center for PreCollege Programs.
As the first day of classes began, Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson toured campus, meeting and greeting students, staff, faculty, and local business owners along the way.
RU–N Impact
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.
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