Rutgers-Newark

80th anniversary celebration for RU-N
May 5, 2026

Rutgers-Newark marks 80 years as anchor institution

Rutgers-Newark is celebrating eight decades and highlighting its role in the city, its recognition as a top-ranked social mobility school and its ongoing impact on students – the majority of which come from New Jersey.

Inauguration of William Tate IV as the 22nd president of Rutgers University
Nov 10, 2025

Rutgers inaugurates Tate as 22nd university president

William Tate IV launched the Edge Fund to support student scholarships and innovation across campuses.

From left: Rutgers-Newark interim Chancellor Jeffrey Robinson; Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way; and Fay Cobb Payton, executive director of the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science at Rutgers-Newark.
Apr 21, 2025

Rutgers-Newark launches effort – using AI tech – to improve communities

The new Institute for Data, Research, and Innovation Science, or IDRIS, will study how artificial intelligence and other technologies can impact health care, education, public safety and more.

Bubbakoo’s Burritos, a Jersey Shore-born Mexican-fusion chain, is celebrating its debut on Inc. 5000’s annual list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately held firms.
Nov 21, 2024

Bubbakoo’s Burritos arrives at Rutgers-Newark

The location marks the third for seasoned restaurant industry franchise operator Dhruval Patel, who also opened restaurants in West Orange and Saddle Brook over the past year.

Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way (left) and James Jones, co-director of the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers-Newark, stand next to a portrait of the late lieutenant governor.
Mar 4, 2024

Rutgers-Newark names political center after late Lt. Gov. Oliver

A scholarship from Johnson & Johnson was also unveiled at a March 1 campus event. The program will allow four students to participate in public service internships over the next five years.

Jeffrey Robinson, Prudential chair in business at Rutgers Business School, Management & Global Business Department, academic director at Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. -NICK ROMANENKO
Feb 20, 2024

Board approves Robinson as interim Rutgers-Newark chancellor

Nancy Cantor's decade-long tenure in the role ends with her second term June 30.

Karen Brown Stovel has been named associate director of the Fiserv-Rutgers-Newark Program for Inclusive Innovation.
Jan 5, 2023

Fiserv-Rutgers-Newark taps local economic leader as associate director

Karen Brown Stovell previously served as executive director at the nonprofit Forward Ever Sustainable Business Alliance, where she created the city’s first shop local effort and worked with business owners and city stakeholders to design programs to spur economic growth.

Rutgers Business School professor Jeffrey Robinson, an internationally known author and co-founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, was named Rutgers University—Newark’s new provost and executive vice chancellor June 23, 2022.
Jun 23, 2022

RU professor Robinson named provost for Rutgers University-Newark

Jeffrey Robinson's work puts him "at the intersection of economic development, social problem solving, inclusive innovation and workforce diversity." He holds the Prudential Chair in Business and is co-founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.