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Like many schoolchildren, Professor Lacey Hunter was taught that ancient history began in Mesopotamia and ended with the fall of Rome. There were no lessons about the ancient history of Africa, a subject that will be explored at the 46th Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, held on February 21. The event is titled Beyond Time: Ancient Africa, History and the Black Imagination.
Rutgers University–Newark is among 237 U.S. colleges and universities nationwide to receive the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification for 2026, which recognizes institutions that excel at integrating community engagement across teaching, research, and service.
Rutgers-Newark and partners launched a community effort to support the growing number of grandparents who are their grandchildrens' primary caregivers.The Rutgers Center for Health Excellence & Community Empowerment established the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Initiative, which partners with local organizations to help New Jersey grandparents.
When linguist Sarita Monjane Henriksen arrived on campus as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, she was struck by the similarities between Rutgers-Newark and her homeland of Mozambique. Her teaching and public lectures here explore how societies manage language.
Researchers at Rutgers University–Newark have answered a question asked by many in New Jersey and nationwide: Why is the rent so damned high? That’s the title of a report that explores the sharp rise of housing costs in recent years. The report was published by the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME).
Rutgers University Newark and Fiserv, a leading global provider of payments and financial technology solutions, marked the fourth annual Back2Business event by awarding grants to two business owners who completed a program designed for first-generation entrepreneurs.
Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill announced Jennifer Davenport as her nominee to be the next Attorney General of New Jersey at a press conference held at Rutgers University–Newark in Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall.
The brothers of trans legend Venus Xtravaganza appeared at a screening of the film I'm Your Venus, which focuses on their attempt to honor her more than 30 years after her murder at age 23. Pose star Dominque Jackson, the film's executive producer, also spoke at the event, urging families to accept trans members.
A Rutgers event brought together researchers, industry leaders, and public officials to explore the potential for AI research collaborations to strengthen the state economy and academic life.
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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