Rutgers-Newark leaders marked the opening of the first electric vehicle charging station on campus, gathering in the Warren Street parking lot, where the station is located.
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Celebrating 30 years, the PhD Project – a nationally recognized non-profit organization aimed at diversifying the business world by diversifying the field of business school professors--will be held at Rutgers-Newark on November 7.
Jerome Perkins, a community engagement assistant at Rutgers-Newark, talks to other formerly incarcerated men about brain health and encourages them to participate in a study about Alzheimer’s disease prevention.
Rutgers-Newark has been awarded the prestigious 2024 NCAN (National College Attainment Network) Partner of the Year Award, a testament to its exceptional commitment to supporting underrepresented students and fostering collaborative partnerships.
Julio Teran’s background as the son of Ecuadorian immigrants and his connection to a range of Spanish-speaking communities at home and on campus gives him an advantage in the field of marketing, he contends.
Political Science Professor Diane Wong, who researches young voters of color, shares the latest statistics and insights on this key election-year demographic.
The Rutgers-Newark’s School of Criminal Justice was honored for transforming lives and government policy locally and beyond at a 50th anniversary event where federal, state and local officials touted its work.
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka and city officials joined Rutgers-Newark leaders to announce an initiative that will provide 13 youth with a fully funded four-year education.
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Rutgers-Newark is #5 among universities nationwide for social mobility, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings.
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?Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.Â