More than 100 Rutgers-Newark community members and guests attended the opening of "A Feeling of Itself,'' an exhibition exploring the joys and complexities of being multilingual.
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The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America will host a November 14 conversation on politics, racism, and Gen Z with Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson, who gained national attention when he was expelled by state Republicans for protesting their inaction following a school mass shooting in 2023. Â Â Â Â Â Â
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.
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.