Learn about the role students and attorneys in the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School in Newark played to exonerate Huwe Burton, a New York man with no prior criminal record who was wrongfully convicted of killing his mother in 1989, when he was just 16 years old.
The new initiative will focus the university’s expertise in public health, criminal justice and other fields on a nationwide problem. The center, highlighted during a lecture with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will conduct multidisciplinary research on the causes, consequences and solutions to firearm-related violence.
Pig races, tractor pulls and prize‐winning produce are the hallmarks of traditional 4‐H fairs. But today’s fairgoers also can participate in 3‐D printing, robotic and drone demonstrations and follow the progress of student‐run urban gardens. Each of these activities honor 4-H’s original mission: to introduce land‐grant universities like Rutgers to the next generation.
This summer Arsany Makkar fulfilled his dream to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with the help of Choose a Challenge, a European-based travel organization that connects college students with international development agencies in need of funds and volunteers. The African adventure took Makkar, a student in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, up the tallest freestanding mountain in the world and renewed his commitment to public health.
Jasmina Dervisevic-Cesic, who escaped the Bosnian Genocide of the 1990s after several members of her family were killed, shared her story during the Global Summit at Douglass Residential College. The event, which featured experts from Rutgers, the United Stations and elsewhere, examined the plight of refugees around the globe, with a special focus on women. The event was organized to educate students and inspire advocacy. Read the story in the Home News.
Jeff Broggi, associate dean of students for Rutgers-New Brunswick, is willing to go the extra mile, or in this case, plunge 30-feet into a swimming pool, to help undergraduates facing unexpected hardships. Watch our video and read the story for more on what inspired Broggi to participate in the annual tower jump to raise awareness about the Emergency Assistance Fund.
A Rutgers program developed to combat the soaring cost of textbooks has saved more than 11,000 students $2.1 million since its inception and continues to grow. The Open and Affordable Textbooks program recently provided 28 awards to faculty members and instructors in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences who found ways to offer students free or low-cost textbooks as an alternative
