The Beckman Scholars program, a prestigious science and engineering effort to increase STEM diversity among undergraduates, started this summer with its first two students embarking on year-long research projects.
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Dan Morgenstern, former director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, who passed away this week at 94, played a crucial role in building the institute into the world’s largest jazz archive, housing everything from recordings and documents to artists’ personal memorabilia.
Express Newark’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence Jasmine Mans won literary acclaim and commercial success for her 2021 poetry collection Black Girl, Call Home, which explores Mans’ queer Black identity, her roots in Newark, and the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.
The Pathway for Junior Scientists program, a new Rutgers-Newark initiative partnering with Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) is designed to help undergrads get the research hours they need – without leaving the city.
The Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark and Yardbird Productions will be presenting the third annual Asian American Pacific Islander JazzFest at Express Newark on Saturday, May 18. Part of AAPI Heritage Month, it is the only festival of its kind on the East Coast.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and his sister, art historian Kellie Jones, shared stories of a childhood shaped by their father, legendary Newark writer and activist Amiri Baraka, and reflected on the legacy of his seminal 1963 book “Blues People” at Express Newark.