Faculty in the News

Milton Heumann is known for giving students in his political science classes a learning experience they remember long after leaving Rutgers. He takes them into prisons to meet inmates and has them ride in patrol cars to understand police work. A Rutgers professor for 40 years, Heumann’s teaching and...

Historians Yesenia Barragan and Judith Surkis are known for research that challenges our understanding of race, slavery, and the lingering legacy of colonialism.

Li-Cheng Tsai is recognized as an outstanding early career researcher of stochastic analysis.

A research mathematician’s work might seem very different from that of a jazz musician. But a Rutgers University professor who has inhabited both roles to widespread acclaim would disagree.

Thu Nguyen has grown accustomed to working on the cusp of change. As a professor and chair in the Department of Computer Science, Nguyen helped the department respond to record enrollment surges brought on by the worldwide tech boom. As he worked  to make sure teaching and research remained on the...

The School of Arts and Sciences is the liberal arts unit at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and a leading public research university. With 750 full-time faculty combining excellence in teaching and world-class research...

The School of Arts and Sciences has launched a new bachelor’s degree program that allows undergraduates from across the liberal arts to develop a second major exploring issues such as climate change, environmental justice, and deforestation.

Until 2020, the word “pandemic” was not one typically heard around the dinner table. The last 16 months, of course, have shown us that pandemic disease is very much a part of our common vocabulary and life experience.

It was early 2020 and Rutgers Professor Simon Thomas was at his usual table near the stage in the Tavern on George, enjoying live jazz, and shooting pictures of the musicians as they jammed through the New Brunswick night.

Professors Allan Punzalan Isaac and Jorge Marcone have been named Associate Deans in the Division of Humanities. Allan, a professor of American Studies and English, and Jorge, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, will report to Dean of Humanities Rebecca Walkowitz.

In the 45 years since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computer in a garage and Bill Gates started Microsoft, computer science has changed the world.

Two professors in the Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy have received Sloan Research Fellowships—an award given to outstanding early-career scientists and scholars.