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In the News This Week
Rutgers Integral to Joint Health Sciences Center

Governor Christie, RU President Barchi and others headlined a ceremony to break ground for the $70 million health sciences building (pictured above in an artist's rendering) yesterday in Camden, with many officials noting the city's significant role in a growing academic health care footprint across New Jersey. A spring 2019 opening is expected. The center will be shared by RU-Camden, Camden County College and Rowan University, and will continue the investment Rutgers and others are making in Camden's burgeoning "Ed & Meds" corridor. Read more.

RU Grad Student Measures Ice Melt in Greenland

When she was an undergraduate in India, everyone Rohi Muthyala knew seemed to be studying computer science. “Everyone was working on computers and never getting up from their screens,” she remembered. “They didn’t seem very happy. I didn’t want that.” Read more.
RU-Newark + HAL: Perfect Together 

The Humanities Action Lab (HAL) is in Newark to launch a global traveling exhibition on immigration and climate justice -- to be created by local communities in over 25 cities around the world. RU-Newark is participating in a big way. Read more.
RU-Camden Prof Honored With Poetry Award

Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016), has won the 2017 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Its author, Patrick Rosal, is an RU-Camden associate professor of English. Read more.