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With the arrival of the FIFA World Cup, Newark’s international identity will be front and center as thousands visit the Newark Fan Village, which Kreshnik Berisha, a Rutgers University–Newark alumnus, has created in the city’s Ironbound section.
When Brazil faces off against Morocco Saturday in the FIFA World Cup competition, Rutgers University–Newark Professor Isadora Grevan will be watching the game. She might also be adding it to her syllabus. Grevan teaches a course that explores soccer’s central role in the nation’s cultural life.
An exhibition created by Rutgers-Newark students and faculty explores the experience of living between languages and the vital role multilingual communities play in shaping identity.
Rutgers University–Newark held its 80th commencement ceremony, marking a milestone anniversary year, with 2,849 students receiving degrees, along with advice from keynote speaker Jonathan Capehart, a Newark native, Pulitzer Prize winner, and MS NOW co-anchor.
As a child of the 1980s crack epidemic, Miseka Diggs found a way to survive as families around her –including her own – were torn apart by addiction. After years spent in prison, she will graduate this week at the age of 49 with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work.
Rutgers University–Newark and Hudson County Community College have expanded their longstanding relationship to offer Hudson County students more bachelor’s degree options and benefits.
The descendants of a founder of Johnson & Johnson have endowed a postdoctoral fellowship in aging neuroscience research based at the Rutgers Aging & Brain Health Alliance lab.
Rutgers University–Newark has partnered with New Arts, a public arts studio at Express Newark, to present a citywide art exhibition featuring archival photographs of Newark in the 1980s created by artist Manuel Acevedo across the city’s five wards.
Megan Haughey, a Rutgers alumna and deputy athletic director at Stevens Institute of Technology, has been named Rutgers University–Newark's new athletic director, Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson announced yesterday.
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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