When Rutgers University–Newark celebrates Homecoming on Oct. 24, alumni, students, families and friends will gather for a day of fun and shared memories. But the event also celebrates an important milestone: Rutgers-Newark’s 80th anniversary
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Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson has placed a great emphasis on school spirit, including an effort to elevate and expand athletics at RU-N and create events that will unify the campus and deepen the connection for alumni and donors. In the final installment of our four-part series focusing on the chancellor’s first year, she discusses Scarlet Raider pride.
Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson describes what makes research at Rutgers-Newark exceptional in part 3 of our Q&A series about her first year.
In Part 2 of our four-part Q&A series on Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson's first year, she discusses getting to know the city of Newark, the state of New Jersey, and Rutgers University.
Graduate Anya Dillard earned national and international attention as an activist before creating the short documentary Atelier: Story of BrownMill Company with fellow Rutgers-Newark students and alumni. The film, which focuses on entrepreneurial designers who are also alums, began as a project in Dillard's video production classes at RU-N.
In an interview marking her one-year anniversary, Rutgers University–Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson reflected on what she's discovered, what she's accomplished, and how she envisions the future. Her thoughts will be presented in a four-part Q&A series.
Alumnus Tanzeel Hussain is building a name for himself as a photographer who captures the beauty of everyday life, including photographs of the RU-N community.
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which destroyed the iconic Twin Towers, the Rutgers University–Newark community gathered to remember that day and honor the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost.
Middle-school students stepped into the role of city planners, designing communities that reflected their growing understanding of what makes neighborhoods safe, accessible, and welcoming. The urban planning course was offered through the Center for PreCollege Programs.
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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.
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