As Americans look back on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from Rutgers-Newark sheds light on why some people succumb to conspiracy theories and bogus beliefs and others don't.
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Rutgers-Newark leaders and students met with dignitaries from Cuba to discuss expanding opportunities for cultural and intellectual exchange through travel.
Researchers, students and activists from communities bearing the greatest burdens of climate change due to environmental racism will convene at Rutgers-Newark beginning October 25.
“Climates of Inequality” – a project led by the Humanities Action Lab at Rutgers-Newark to share how local environmental histories are intertwined with social justice movements––stops at two Los Angeles-area museums this fall.
Rutgers-Newark professor Salamishah Tillet is co-curator of the first outdoor exhibition on Washington D.C.’s National Mall, which features stories untold by the Mall’s existing monuments. The exhibition opens August 18.
A Rutgers University–Newark report—one of the first to detail the educational impacts of segregation in New Jersey—found that in schools segregated by race and class, there are fewer guidance counselors, higher student teacher ratios and fewer high-level courses than in other schools.Â