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At the Camden Street School in Newark, little girls in tutus and tiaras lined up to tell Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson what they do to help themselves feel poised and powerful. The annual Women's History Month event was organized by the Rutgers–Newark Staff Council and the Rutgers Police Department. The chancellor was invited to be keynote speaker.
Rutgers-Newark Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson and others affiliated with RU-N as alumnae, students, or staff are on the list of Insider NJ’s Powerful Women of New Jersey.
Rutgers University–Newark is showcasing programs that have supported its ranking as #5 in the nation for social mobility.
Amy Díaz, the new Chief of Staff at Rutgers University–Newark, has stepped into her role after arriving from Indiana University Northwest, where she served as Chief of Staff and Interim Vice Chancellor for University Advancement and External Affairs.
Express Newark's Community Media Center is helping to lead workforce development efforts within the metro region's expanding film industry, which is building a reputation as “Hollywood East.’'
Express Newark invites artists and non-artists alike to explore the act of creating, and appreciating, art across all mediums – from music to sculpture – in a series of events that span the semester and beyond.
Rutgers-Newark researchers have shown that a genetic variant specific to African ancestry alters the brain in a way that could foretell the eventual development of Alzheimer's Disease. The study also revealed some good news: A more well-known genetic mutation doesn't seem as malevolent in African Americans as it is in people of primarily European descent.
Rutgers University–Newark has been selected to participate in a national program that helps faculty guide students through difficult conversations in the classroom and beyond.
Jazz artist Stefon Harris did something no one’s done before: create an app that makes music as unpredictable as a jazz solo. After 13 years of research, Harris, a Rutgers-Newark professor of music, invented Harmony Cloud, an AI-powered software platform he developed to help musicians practice the art of not knowing what comes next.
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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