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In the News This Week
RU-Newark Professor's Essays Win Pulitzer

Dr. Salamishah Tillet, pictured, joined the faculty in 2018 and is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies & Creative Writing at RU-Newark. Her Pulitzer Prize was awarded in criticism for her New York Times essays on race in arts and culture. A contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times since 2015, Tillet’s work covers popular culture, gender, sexuality, race and politics as they play out in both popular entertainment and high art. She is also the director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design that brings together the RU-Newark community and Newark residents. More.
RU-Camden Wins Grant to Support Tri-State Public Health Initiative

The grant, from AmeriCorps and the CDC, is part of a new initiative to enhance public health resources across the country. RU-Camden will serve as the host site for Public Health AmeriCorps, supporting dozens of AmeriCorps members providing public health services across Camden and the Delaware Valley region. More.
Rutgers Researchers Invent Test to ID Covid Variants Quickly

The lab test can quickly and easily identify which variant of the virus causing COVID-19 has infected a person, an advance expected to greatly assist health officials tracking the disease and physicians treating infected patients. More.
University-Wide Commencement Information!

More than 19,000 Rutgers graduates will receive degrees, certificates and diplomas from Rutgers at commencement ceremonies that begin this weekend. That number includes 12,598 baccalaureate degrees, 4,736 master’s degrees, 1,914 doctorates (including professional doctorates), 121 professional certificates and associate degrees, and two specialist in education diplomas. More.