October marks the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (DVAM), a month dedicated to bringing advocates and community members together to end domestic violence. At Rutgers University—New Brunswick, the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance (VPVA), with its campus partners, has taken a lead on providing support and programming during DVAM.
Sabrina Charles is spending her summer doing painstaking research that will one day inform the care a burgeoning New Brunswick nonprofit clinic provides to groups such as expectant mothers of color.
Eddie Malague signed up for the Rutgers Summer Service Initiative, which seeks to provide meaningful summer internship experiences to Rutgers Camden, New Brunswick and Newark undergraduate students at public service-orientated non-profit organizations and direct-service government offices while expanding their knowledge and skills to engage as active citizens. Malague’s experiences over the past five or six weeks are precisely what Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway envisioned when he announced the service initiative at his inauguration speech on Nov. 5, 2021.
Half a century after this groundbreaking gender-equity legislation was signed into law, nine informed voices from Rutgers’ faculty offer powerful reflections and unique perspectives on Title IX’s far-reaching effects.
Rutgers Global Health Institute is helping underserved communities in Essex, Mercer, and Middlesex counties hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic offer residents accessible vaccination and testing.
While many COVID-19 restrictions and mandates have eased, allowing college students to return to the classroom, continued racial strife, negative effects from frequent social media usage and the aftermath of the pandemic continue to impact student mental health throughout the U.S.