A married couple who met at Rutgers in a political science course taught by Professor Milt Heumann are create a special fund in Heumann s name to support current students.
Scholars in the Italian department at Rutgers University have joined forces with Rutgers University Press to translate and publish “Other Voices of Italy,” a book series that introduces English-speaking audiences to a selection of authors from Italy–some contemporary and some from earlier generations whose work often wrestles with issues of alienation, injustice, and despair in Italian society.
Over the course of three decades, the Elizabeth Detention Center has become, for many, a symbol of immigrant injustice in New Jersey. This Friday, Rutgers University will hold a symposium, Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, and Future, that will examine the ways in which the center reflects the larger story of immigration enforcement in the United States. “We can get a view of 30 years of immigration policy by looking at what has happened at Elizabeth in those 30 years,” said Ulla Berg, a professor of Latino and Caribbean studies and anthropology School of Arts and Sciences, and a principal organizer of the symposium. The event, which comes amid a legal battle between New Jersey and the private corporation that runs the center, will feature scholars from across the three Rutgers campuses and beyond, as well as community organizations, journalists, activist groups, and people formerly detained in Elizabeth. In the interview below, Berg, an anthropologist and scholar of mig
The venerable English “101” writing class a staple of undergraduate education and a required course for nearly every first-year student will look very different this semester at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Formerly called “Expository Writing," the course will now be "College Writing," to reflect a major overhaul by the Department of English that incorporates fresh teaching strategies and expands the range of writing styles and genres that students encounter and master.
Noam Aharon, a geography major in the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, spent his final semester on a capstone project aimed at providing digital wayfinding service inside Rutgers buildings, and specifically at Lucy Stone Hall.
He ended up building a prototype navigation system that with investment from the university could one day guide the Rutgers community through hallways and stairwells much like navigational apps guide people along roads and highways.