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Rutgers University
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
April 25, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – Suck in your gut, shimmy into your old Scarlet Knights hoodie and get ready to party like it’s 1999. Or 2011. Or 1976. Thousands of alumni from graduating classes spanning the decades will make the pilgrimage to the Banks of the Old Raritan on Saturday for Rutgers Day. It’s a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The woman behind the counter at the furniture store was surprised when Atiya Aftab produced a tax-exempt form at checkout. The chairperson of Center for Islamic Life explained that several chairs and tables – not to mention religious items – had been destroyed during a recent ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A 24-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged in connection with last week’s break-in and robbery of the Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers. Jacob Beacher, who is not affiliated with Rutgers, has been arrested in an investigation led by the FBI, according to a statement from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Freeman Hrabowski III, a renowned educator, mathematician and president emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will be awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree when he addresses graduates at the 258th anniversary commencement of Rutgers University-New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – About 125 Rutgers faculty members brandished signs and chanted slogans on the College Avenue campus on Wednesday to protest the cutting of Writing Program classes and the elimination of adjunct lecturers who teach them. The Strikeiversary – so named by the faculty to mark the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – About 80% of Rutgers-New Brunswick students who participated in spring elections have voted in favor of referendums calling on the university’s administration to cut business and educational ties with Israel. In a vote conducted last month, 6,538 students agreed that Rutgers ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Lydia Gray’s small business of making and marketing Chin-Chin, a fried pastry popular in her native Sierra Leone, was about to take off when she lost her left hand March 5, 2020 after a packaging machine malfunctioned in her new commercial kitchen. She was faced with a lot of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating after the Center for Islamic Life on College Avenue was burglarized as the world’s Muslims began the celebration of Eid, the ending of Ramadan. The center was broken into and “several items of value” were taken during a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Christopher Wireman and his roommates were up late Friday night, just a group of Rutgers students watching a movie in the living room of the two-story home they rent at 64 Easton Avenue. Their night of fun turned to sudden panic at about 2 a.m., when gunfire erupted on the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – As if Friday morning’s 4.8 earthquake didn’t shake things up enough in New Brunswick and the surrounding area, Rutgers experts warn there’s a chance for aftershocks. These aftershocks, however, should register far lower on the Richter scale. Kenneth Miller, a Distinguished ...
EAST BRUNSWICK - As New Jersey aims to procure half of its energy needs from renewable resources by 2030, a team of researchers at Rutgers’ Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) is playing an important role in developing and advancing the science that informs decision-making around a key ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Following growing calls for Rutgers to distance itself from Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other companies with ties to Israel, university president Jonathan Holloway said the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement “is wrong.” Holloway also didn’t seem inclined to heed ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Rutgers sophomore Jake Thistle is two years from earning his dual degree in communication and journalism and media studies, but he’s a decade into his career as a professional singer-songwriter. Thistle, who will perform Tuesday, April 9, (changed from Wednesday, April 3, due to ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Soon after Rutgers student Agny Valle was assigned to the New Brunswick Free Public Library for her senior internship, she realized that many of the patrons were asking about housing. So, she created a bilingual workshop on affordable housing that offered information on ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Reported bias incidents at Rutgers-New Brunswick more than doubled in 2023 from the previous year, according to statistics released by state officials. There were 77 reported bias incidents in 2023, up from the 36 that were reported in 2022, according to data from Attorney ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – On the Rutgers College Avenue campus, even the cafeterias where so many burritos, sliders and chicken salad wraps are scarfed down each day are being used as teaching tools. That’s because since 2017 Rutgers-New Brunswick has been a part of the Menus of Change University ...
FRANKLIN – The battle line in the fight against sweeping reforms proposed to the state’s public records law was drawn, in all places, a cramped parking lot with freshly painted stripes and polished stone landscaping on Friday. Outside a stately, red-bricked building that houses the offices of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Second-year medical student Kritika Sharma spent the past semester volunteering at University Hospital in Newark to help women screen for breast cancer. She was part of a team of students at New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers Health providing cancer screening education and ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers will continue to utilize a space in the Albany Street Plaza to prepare for the next generation of social workers through 2028. The university on Monday approved a five-year lease extension for the space at 120 Albany St. for the Rutgers University-New Brunswick School of ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – They’re not exactly pawns in a game, but the students from city schools who will gather with their counterparts from Rutgers on Friday will likely not realize the far-reaching effects of their spirited rounds of chess, Jenga and other board games. Bridging the gap between those ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Gary Taffet, who served as chief of staff for former Gov. Jim McGreevey in the early 2000s and has served on the Middlesex College Board of Trustees since 2017, has joined the Rutgers Board of Governors. Taffet, who did not respond to multiple messages left by TAPinto New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Some of Rutgers’ oldest (the 122-year-old Voorhees Hall on College Avenue) and largest (660,000 gross-square-foot Medical Science Building in Newark) are earmarked for upgrades that will make them more energy efficient. One hundred and seven buildings across all campuses will ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers Dining Services employs an army to keep university staff, students and faculty well fed. For a small number of those employees, their work preparing and serving meals isn’t just a job, it’s an opportunity to gain life skills – one that’s not always easy to come by for ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark, has a clear vision. He wants Black people to speak for themselves, represent themselves, and not have others try to give them handouts. Those and other demands are right there in his rapid-fire lyrics on his spoken-word EP, “What We ...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - The Rutgers Geology Museum's 56th Annual Open House on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024,was a journey through time as Dr. Lauren Adamo, a Rutgers Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Director of the Geology Museum, invited science enthusiasts and curious ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - A team of Rutgers researchers will recruit up to 500 women from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Saint Peter’s University Hospital to participate in a study of the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health. The Rutgers Health researchers ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Gov. Phil Murphy has tapped a longtime power broker in New Jersey politics to serve on the Rutgers Board of Governors. Gary Taffet, who has served in many roles in his career in politics, including chief of staff for former Gov. Jim McGreevey, was nominated by ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Miriam Brickman is positive there was a cup of squash soup around here somewhere. “Where did you put the soup?” she asks her brother, Buzzy. Before he can answer, the soup has reappeared right where she left it on the countertop. “Oh, I took it,” she said, with a ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Dr. Lauren Adamo, a Rutgers Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Director of the university's Geology Museum, wants you to listen to the stories that rocks tell. She wants you to hang out for a while with some mosasaurs. She wants you to let your ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Rutgers University continues to face sharp criticism after it announced this week that it has lifted the suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on its New Brunswick campus. “For weeks, the Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine New Brunswick chapter ...
