As part of National Poetry Month, Essence magazine is featuring 20 must-read poets. The esteemed list includes none other than RU-Newark American Studies doctoral student Naomi Extra, pictured. More.

RU-New Brunswick senior Andrew Peng was thrilled to learn that some in Congress and at the White House are reading the weekly online publication he cofounded two years ago to track Asian American and Pacific Islander politics and activism. More.

The project, A New View Camden, is funded by a grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge and administered by the RU–Camden Center for the Arts (RCCA) and Cooper’s Ferry Partnership. The project, delayed by the pandemic, opened on Earth Day of this year. More.

Certain effects of the pandemic could be positive, says Martin Blaser, the director of the Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. For one thing, because people didn’t get colds, they also didn’t get (inappropriately) prescribed antibiotics. More.