At a celebration of his life, gatekeepers of jazz history, family members, and jazz artists shared memories of Morgenstern, a groundbreaking figure and former director of the Institute of Jazz Studies, who died this fall at age 94.
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Rutgers University-Newark and Fiserv hosted an award ceremony to recognize graduates of Rutgers Business School's Entrepreneurship Pioneer Initiative (EPI), which supports first-generation entrepreneurs.
Paul Boxer, a Rutgers-Newark Psychology professor, is an expert on youth violence, which has declined since the 1990s, in part due to successful methods for defusing and preventing it. Boxer has co-authored The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy and Research.
Tennessee Representative Justin J. Pearson, who gained national attention last year when he was expelled by state Republicans for protesting in the wake of a school mass shooting, spoke to Rutgers-Newark students about the power of political involvement last month.
Rutgers-Newark was among schools recognized nationally as the Most Engaged Campus for Student College Voting from ALL IN, an organization dedicated to promoting democracy and civic engagement.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way praised the state’s public servants and urged students and others to consider working and volunteering in the field, despite political shifts, at an event hosted by the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark.
Taja-Nia Henderson, dean of the Graduate School-Newark and a law professor, is the recipient of Rutgers University’s Torchbearer Award, which recognizes leaders who've succeeded in fostering equity in their workplace and communities.
For the third year in a row, Rutgers-Newark has won the New Jersey Ballot Bowl, a statewide non-partisan voter registration and engagement competition led by and for students.
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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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.