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Between her research and rigorous coursework as a biomedical engineering student, Katie Lynch has dedicated her time to speaking up for Indigenous communities at Rutgers. 

In the last four years, she has covered topics that have included Black women’s health, rest as resistance, legacy and Black love and has interviewed people including radio personality Angela Yee, former New Jersey Secretary of State DeForest Soaries and film and TV show producer Kenya Barris.

While numerous Rutgers students were off enjoying a relaxing Spring Break, two Douglass students alternately completed a weeklong Externship with the office of Pre-College Initiatives & College Success in the Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement through Douglass Externship program. This one-week experience provided the students with a glimpse into the day-to-day workday of Karen Hale, Senior Program Coordinator.  The Reilly Program at the BOLD Center at Douglass organizes the job shadowing or externship program. 

The goal of Access Week, organized by Rutgers–New Brunswick’s Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement is “to broaden awareness and amplify the equity and access programs and initiatives that exist on the New Brunswick campus,” said Tiffiny Butler, the associate vice chancellor for educational equity at DICE. 

Salvador Mena, vice chancellor for student affairs at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has been named one of the Aspen Institute’s inaugural Senior Index Impact Fellows.  

Founded in 1949, the Aspen Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit policy and research organization committed to “realizing a free, just, and equitable society.”  

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.

Keywuan Caulk had a vision of a Rutgers Pride Bus – a loud, proud and mobile celebration of inclusion.

A group of scientists, experts, and representatives from New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, and West Virginia convened for a mid-Atlantic Regional One Health Consortium Conference at Rutgers University last week.

A Rutgers researcher is teaming up with a professor from Yale to develop a digital database dedicated to the study of Black-authored and Black-published books, magazines and newspapers. 

The Latinas Excelling at Doctoral Degrees program will include discussions and workshops on topics such as cultural and academic isolation, cultural values and academic expectations, peer support and mentorship, as well as identity, advocacy, and research design. Each workshop is developed to create dialogue and combat the common challenges Latinas face in the academy.

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.

"Collaborating with my classmates turned out to be an awesome experience,” said Thiffany Fernandes, one of the four Journalism and Media Studies students who worked on the award-winning film.

Members of the Network Contagion Lab at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (NC Lab) found evidence of a sharp rise and evolving patterns of hate speech directed toward the Hindu community across numerous social media platforms, according to a new report.

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.

While the Division of Student Affairs offers students opportunities to connect, grow, and learn throughout their time at Rutgers, it also provides them with the support they need during periods of crisis. The Dean of Students Office is one such office dedicated to supplying that necessary support.

Rutgers Professor Patricia O’Brien-Richardson says “encouraging hair positivity from a young age is critical.”

In Fall 2016, the Office of Off-Campus Living and Community Partnerships (OCLCP) opened the Rutgers Student Food Pantry at 39 Union Street.

Roxane Gay, an internationally recognized writer, editor, cultural critic and educator, has been selected as the next Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Half a century after this groundbreaking gender-equity legislation was signed into law, nine informed voices from Rutgers’ esteemed faculty offer their own reflections and unique perspectives on its far-reaching effects.

The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities (SJE) is commemorating its 30th anniversary, as well as the 50+ years of LGBT organizations on campus, with a colorful pride wrap that will soon appear on a campus bus.

Raised under the principles of Jainism, Harshita Jain wanted the ancient Indian religion to be integral to her college experience. When she arrived at Rutgers–New Brunswick in 2018, the Honors College senior found a strong Jain community.

Alex Silvis, MGSA '22, was inspired by his brother Connor to explore autism and ADHD through his senior dance project.

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.

Rutgers Graduate School of Education (GSE) is working with school districts throughout New Jersey—where 82 percent of public school teachers are white compared to 44 percent of the student population—to increase the recruitment and retention of teachers of color.

Every Wednesday after school this spring, students at the Paul Robeson Community School for the Arts in New Brunswick have been moving, dancing, leaping and twisting, all while learning about community, emotions and identity.

A nationally recognized wellness assessment that measures college students' mental health revealed some concerning trends with more than half of students at Rutgers University-New Brunswick reporting they have experienced distress.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick is a national leader in higher education for elevating women from diverse backgrounds to leadership roles, according to a study conducted by the Eos Foundation’s Women’s Power Gap (WPG) Initiative.

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.

The future of our democracy depends not on overcoming our racist past, but on embracing the history of those who struggle for equality, Harvard Kennedy School scholar Khalil Gibran Muhammad told a Rutgers audience Thursday while delivering his James Dickson Carr Lecture at the Busch Student Center in Piscataway.

Led by the Division of Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement, Rutgers University-New Brunswick will host its eighth annual Access Week, Feb. 15-19, to champion educational equity and help unlock pathways for success for current and prospective first-generation, low-income and other underserved students.

Rutgers is hosting its annual, week-long initiative called Access Week, which provides various programming opportunities for students and aims to create awareness surrounding first-generation, low-income and other underserved student communities, according to the initiative's website.

Larry Traylor arrived at Rutgers-New Brunswick in the fall of 2016 as an aspiring policy analyst eager to dive into his double major in political science and Africana studies – with even bigger goals in mind. Though Traylor planned to attend graduate school after earning his bachelor’s, he felt uncertain about the admissions process and which of the many advanced degree and funding options to pursue.