Amy Tan, a best-selling author since the 1989 publication of her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, will be the opening keynote speaker at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers’ Conference in June. Read this Q&A with Tan by Rutgers Division of Continuing Studies to find out what she has to say about her craft and the advice she has for aspiring writers.
A group of Rutgers-New Brunswick students spent last week working on a conservation and environmental sustainability project in what is not your average spring break trip. Find out what students did to help with ongoing restoration efforts in New Orleans, part of the continuing the recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and the lessons they learned through the Rutgers University Alternative Break trip.
Aaron Ramos, a Mason Gross School of the Arts alumnus, is teaching 7th and 8th-grade students in the Franklin Township Public Schools dances that he says “people need to see and hear,” with subjects including immigration and the #MeToo movement. Learn what drives Ramos to push the envelope through dance.
One of the city’s busiest thoroughfares has been renamed for one of Rutgers’ most famous alumni. The New Brunswick City Council recently voted to rename Commercial Avenue for Paul Robeson as the city moves ahead with plans to honor his legacy in tandem with Rutgers' celebration of the centennial of Robeson's graduation in 1919.
During the daylong event on Wednesday members of this community will unite in support of Rutgers by making gifts to areas of the university that are most meaningful to them, including life-changing scholarships and world-changing research. Find out how you can make a difference.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled a plan at Rutgers-Newark to transform the state’s higher education system by making it more accessible, affordable and transparent. Read more about the vision for opening new doors to opportunities for students in our release and watch Rutgers-Newark student John-Anthony Arroyo share his story about how access to education changed his life in this Northjersey.com video.
Read about the anxious moment Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School students learned where they will spend the next three to seven years training to become physicians on Match Day.
Educators from across New Jersey will gather at Rutgers on Thursday to share approaches to campus sexual violence response and prevention. Read our Q & A with Victoria Banyard, a professor in Rutgers’ School of Social Work who has dedicated her career to helping communities prevent and respond to interpersonal violence, about prevention efforts, past and future, on college campuses.
Read about a study that could shed light on how harmful bacteria share antibiotic resistance genes by senior author Konstantin Severinov, a principal investigator at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
African Americans with severe depression are more likely to be misdiagnosed as having schizophrenia than white patients, according to a study coauthored by Michael Gara, a professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty member at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. Read the release and story in The Philadelphia Inquirer to learn more about the study that builds on years of evidence suggesting racial biases affect the types of mental-health diagnoses African American patients receive.
A new model for intensive care, developed by Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health System, can help identify preventable – and previously overlooked – factors that often send chronically ill patients to the intensive care unit.