Rutgers University–Newark held its 80th commencement ceremony, marking a milestone anniversary year, with 2,849 students receiving degrees, along with advice from keynote speaker Jonathan Capehart, a Newark native, Pulitzer Prize winner, and co-anchor of MS NOW's The Weekend.
As a child of the 1980s crack epidemic, Miseka Diggs was one of many who found a way to survive as families were torn apart by addiction. At the age of 11, she sold drugs. But Diggs turned her life around and graduated from Rutgers-Newark at the age of 49 with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work.
Class of 2026's Christina Sarkes is an aspiring doctor and dedicated flutist exploring how the arts might intersect with healing in her future career.
This fall SASN is doubling down on its commitment to data-science research and teaching as it launches the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science (IDRIS), an interdisciplinary center that will serve as an organizing hub for applied ethical scholarship and practice in data science and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) as they’re brought to bear on difficult problems facing urban communities.
The AI algorithms increasingly used to treat and diagnose patients can have biases and blind spots that could impede healthcare for Black and Latinx patients, according to research co-authored by Rutgers-Newark data scientist Dr. Fay Cobb Payton.
The Beckman Scholars Program, a prestigious science and engineering effort to increase STEM diversity among undergraduates, started this summer at Rutgers-Newark with its first two students embarking on year-long research projects.
Cindy Saladin-Muhammad holds several singular distinctions. She serves as Deputy Commanding General of the 807th Medical Command and recently was promoted to brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserves, one of only a handful of African American females to attain that rank in the medical field of the military.
Giancarlo Piccinini (SASN ’18) is a lawyer in the NJ Attorney General’s Office, focusing on firearms litigation to prevent gun violence in New Jersey. He's also giving back to his alma mater by teaching a legal writing class at RU-N.
Ghufran Hussain, the child of immigrants who fled Iraq, graduated this month with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She was the undergraduate speaker at her commencement ceremony and is planning to attend physician assistant school.
In the U.S. Capitol, they aren’t considered powerbrokers. But congressional staffers play a critical role in shaping U.S. laws and policies. And the nation pays a price when so few of them are Black and Latinx, according to Rutgers-Newark Professor James Jones.
Rutgers-Newark professor Jason Barr, an authority on skyscrapers, examines them through the lens of an economist, not an expert on architecture.
Studies by psychologists Kent Harber and Valeria Vila found that people with high levels of emotional distress, even distress unrelated to COVID, were more prone to embrace supernatural explanations for the pandemic, conspiracy theories, and false remedies.