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Bryant Gomez launched a study during last year s quarantine that became the basis for his honors thesis
Bryant Gomez had barely settled into his first year as a transfer student at Rutgers University-Newark when the campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But unlike the millions of other college students who had to quarantine with their parents, Gomez, a psychology major, wanted to study how the lockdown was affecting their happiness.
He reached out to a professor and together they launched an experiment to determine what types of positive psychology interventions people thought would help them cope as they faced endless months of isolation.
Jan 27, 2021
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Three School of Arts & Sciences-Newark Faculty will lead Rutgers-Newark initiatives as part of a multi-institution project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to facilitate community-based solutions in Newark and cities nationally
Rutgers University – Newark, at the invitation of the University of Michigan Center on Social Solutions, has become a partner in a major new grant-funded project sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of the foundation’s Just Futures initiative, the center is creating “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-Based Reparations Solutions,” a partnership with nine colleges and universities located in cities spanning the eastern half of the United States, north and south, with representation also in the Midwest and Central North regions. Through this project, participating colleges and universities in each city will collaborate with community partners in a public history