The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies to Belinda Edmondson for her book Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect, Literature, and Performance.
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Rutgers-Newark leaders and students met with dignitaries from Cuba to discuss expanding opportunities for cultural and intellectual exchange through travel.
After graduating with a degree in Graphic Design from SASN, alumna Coco Kim, a chef who appeared on the Food Network, found her calling in feeding and mentoring others.
Two Rutgers-Newark students joined peers from across the U.S. at a White House event celebrating National First Generation College Day.
Poet, author and MFA alumna Ananda Lima shares the inspiration behind her fiction debut, Craft: Stories I wrote for the Devil.
Researchers, students and activists from communities will convent at Rutgers-Newark to explore collective projects that combat the climate crisis, including its impact on neighborhoods in Newark.
Author Alice Elliott Dark, an associate professor in Rutgers-Newark’s MFA program and the English Department, shares her thoughts on the best ways to teach writing.
The joys and challenges faced by teachers of color are part of an exhibition at Rutgers-Newark co-curated by Lynnette Mawhinney, chair of the Department of Urban Education, along with department faculty and colleagues at Marist College.
Each semester the School of Arts and Sciences Newark welcomes new faculty to our family from across the liberal arts disciplines. This year’s group is diverse, spanning the social sciences, humanities, arts and physical sciences.
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He is able to do this work in part thanks to a recently awarded competitive Rutgers Global International Collaborative Research grant.
Two SASN Psychology researchers are examining how activity in certain brain regions correlates with math performance in adolescents, a population that historically has been understudied. The research, which is in its early stages, could help scientists and educators design learning strategies to help underperforming students.
Cheswayo Mphanza GSN’18 was 8 years old when he left Zambia for the southeast side of Chicago, but his voice still carries a faint lilt of Nyanja, his native language.
Two new shows at Gallery Aferro include the work of several artists from the School of Arts & Sciences-Newark.
“Meleagris Gallopavo Day” is a bit of a mouthful. Which may be why this Thanksgiving, most people will opt for the less ornithologically precise “Turkey Day.”
And just as turkey is a versatile meat – think of those leftover options! – so too is the word “turkey,” which can refer to everything from the bird itself to a Externalpopulous Eurasian country to Externalmovie flops.