NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will deliver the 254th anniversary commencement address to Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences graduates on May 17. Holt and Sandy J. Stewart, former chair of the Rutgers Board of Trustees and Board of Governors, will receive honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees.
Martin Blaser and Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello are both groundbreaking researchers who investigate the microbiome, but also have great chemistry. Find out what brought them together in the last in our series for Valentine's Day.
Jonathan Holloway, provost of Northwestern University and an eminent historian, has been appointed the 21st university president. Holloway will begin his presidency on July 1 after successful tenures at Northwestern and Yale. Read the release, watch a video of his full remarks to the boards and check out scenes from the historic event on Facebook.
When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31 we will be saying goodbye to a decade that was a time of great change, growth and innovation at Rutgers. Take a look at some of the most-read Rutgers Today stories of the 2010s from across the university and check out highlights of the decade from Rutgers-New Brunswick.
Meet the newest members of the best Rutgers Scarlet Knights women’s basketball recruiting class since 2008 and find out how coach C. Vivian Stringer's influence brought it all together even while she was on leave last spring.
One hundred years ago, when he graduated from Rutgers, Paul Robeson seemed capable of anything. Over the next few decades, he left behind an extraordinary legacy in athletics, the arts, and – not without controversy – the fight for human rights. Read the final story in our series on "one of Rutgers' brightest lights" and check out the full profile in Rutgers Magazine.
In wake of the shooting in Jersey City last week, Stephanie Bonne, assistant professor at New Jersey Medical School and director of surveillance for the Rutgers Center on Gun Violence Research, writes as a mother and surgeon about the need to address gun violence as a public health threat. Read her op-ed on NJ.com.
Singer-songwriter Sophia Angelica gave her big brother Christopher Rybin an early holiday gift this year: a song about her love for him as he faces the biggest crisis of his life. Read the story in theDaily News.
Rebecca Greenbaum believes that you can’t stretch the truth, rationalize unethical choices and think that’s it’s not a big deal. The professor of human resource management at the School of Management and Labor Relations was inspired by some less than ideal bosses in the past and now focuses her research on how unethical leadership can spiral into a vicious circle of lying and deceit throughout the workplace. Learn more about Greenbaum in the latest installment of our new faculty series.
