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Rutgers Receives $15 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Global Racial Justice

The establishment of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice marks a new direction among higher education institutions by using humanistic theories, methods and approaches to study global issues of race and social justice. The institute will span the entire university and will include centers at Rutgers’ campuses in Newark, New Brunswick and Camden. Aligning with the Mellon Foundation’s humanistic orientation, the institute will support and amplify the scholarship of researchers who are based in the humanities or lean on humanistic methods and whose work has consequences in areas such as policy reform, K-12 education, social justice work and the carceral state. More.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in Newark at RU Law from 1963-1972

“Rutgers students sparked my interest and aided in charting the course I then pursued,” Associate Justice Ginsburg said in a short film, Our Revolutionary Spirit, made for Rutgers’ 250th anniversary. “Less than three years after starting the seminar, I was arguing gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court.” More.
RU–Camden Civic Scholars Launch Statewide Voter Registration 

Every high school senior throughout New Jersey may soon be registered to vote, thanks to a new statewide, nonpartisan, virtual voter registration and education initiative launched by the Civic Scholars program at RU–Camden. More.
Rutgers Honors Tyler Clementi 10 Years Later

Although his time at Rutgers was tragically short, his legacy has been long lasting. His death sparked a national conversation about sexuality, cyber-harassment, safety, and inclusion within and beyond college campuses. More.
Rutgers Experts Explore Questions, Concerns Over COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

As researchers race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Associate Professor Shobha Swaminathan, principal investigator at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Clinical Research Center and the medical director of Infectious Diseases Practice at University Hospital, and Michael K. Gusmano, a bioethicist and professor of health policy at the Rutgers School of Public Health, discuss how clinical trials work, the ethics of developing and distributing a vaccine, safety and efficacy in clinical trials and what a successful vaccine may mean. More.