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News, media mentions, and upcoming events around Rutgers University-Newark
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November 5, 2019
Watch the latest episode of Rutgers-Newark's Connect TV featuring some of our newest alumni and Luis Valls, alumnus and co-founder of Fresh Coast restaurant in Newark. 
The Newark City of Learning Collaborative has launched the Newark FAFSA Challenge, a citywide effort to encourage more Newark high school seniors to complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA.)
Read highlights from New York Federal Reserve Chairman John Williams' visit to Rutgers-Newark. Rutgers Business School also recently hosted its annual Business Community Engagement Symposium, which focuses on helping mid-sized companies grow.

This week, the Preventing Gun 
Violence Research Symposium
will feature presentations in public health, sociology, psychology, criminal justice, and social work, exchanging knowledge around the causes, consequences, and solutions to gun-related violence.
Find out how Rutgers Law School student Nina DePalma took action to form the Newark Housing Rights Coalition, a nonprofit coalition to help Newark residents facing eviction.
Meet Dana Library inaugural archivist Angela Lawrence, who is tasked with collecting materials that accurately document, preserve, and communicate Rutgers-Newark’s historical record and role as an anchor institution.

 
The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) appointed Dan Morgenstern 
Executive Director Emeritus. IJS also named a yearlong fellowship in his honor to celebrate his 90th birthday and significant contributions to jazz scholarship. 
SASN's journalism program recently added the Newsmakers Lecture Series, bringing veteran journalists from major news outlets to campus for panel discussions. 

Express Newark announces more than $200,000 in Third Space Awards, which are given to Newark artists who work collaboratively with RU-N faculty, staff and students on humanities-focused creative projects.
 
Is there an inspirational person or life-changing program at Rutgers-Newark that we should feature in a video profile? Share your idea with us
Read the latest poems out of the MFA program including “The Poets Are Dying” by Prof. Brenda Shaughnessy and "Cage" by Prof. Rigoberto González.
 
SASN Psychology Professor Vanessa LoBue, whose research focuses on infants and children, is quoted in this story on how humans develop fears and how they change over time as we grow older.  

Express Newark Co-Director Victor Davson is one of three Guyanese artists featured in a visual arts journal for his work illustrating how Jhandi flags function as contemporary tools of remembrance, rupture and repair.
Rutgers-Newark has won the New Jersey Ballot Bowl for the second year in a row! Voter registration efforts included a street team, marketing campaign, high school visits and events both on and off campus.

Congratulations to SPAA, which has been awarded the 2019 Social Equity Award by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration.
Two Rutgers-Newark undergraduate students, Heba Hallak and Erica Lassiter, each received a $5,000 scholarship for the 2019-20 academic school year from global fashion retailer, Ashley Stewart.

Watch the Day 1 and Day 2 livestream replays of the Humanities Action Lab convening of the Climates of Inequality project. 
 
Watch the replay of the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights lecture by Kiran Gill, highlighting the contributions and struggles faced by Sikh Americans as they pursue the American dream.

Look out for the latest issue of R.U.N. the Know? on November 6. This month's RU-N events include an evening of poetry with Jay Wright, a workshop on navigating cuffing season and two on-campus Thanksgiving feasts.
 
Thanks to all our veterans, active duty military and reservists for your service. Click here for a week of events for RU-N's military community. Don't forget to view 
A Call to Peace art installation at Military Park through Veterans Day. 

Students: It's time to show your Rutgers-Newark pride during Spirit Week! Don't miss Raider Madness for the unveiling of RU-N's first mascot. #RevealtheRaider

Get up close and personal with the Rutgers-Newark community. Book a campus tour for yourself or someone you know.

There are many great events to attend at Rutgers-Newark and in the City of Newark this fall. Stay in the know, and submit your event, by visiting the Rutgers-Newark events calendar!


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