Art & Design faculty named inaugural Rutgers–NB Laureate
Sue Huang has been named the inaugural Rutgers–New Brunswick Laureate for the 2025-26 academic year, working on a cross-disciplinary project that is meant to bridge the arts and sciences.
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Two Art & Design professors named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
Marc Handelman was recognized in the Fine Arts category, Miranda Lichtenstein in the Photography category. They are among 198 fellows selected this year from a pool of nearly 3,500 across 53 disciplines.
Dean to serve as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dr. Geary is set to assume the role of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Rutgers–New Brunswick, effective July 1, 2025. A nationwide search is underway to find the next dean for Mason Gross.
Theater project supports formerly incarcerated people reentering society
Ritual4Return is the brainchild of Kevin Bott, director of Rutgers Arts Online. The project works with people coming home after incarceration to develop a ritual through theatrical storytelling that helps them move on from their experiences.
Nancy Yunhwa Rao: Honorary member of American Musicological Society
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”
Research Spotlight: Robinson McClellan
Earlier this year, faculty Robinson McClellan made a rare discovery: a previously unknown waltz by none other than Frédéric Chopin.
Dance chair performs with “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith
The New York Times singled out Dance chair Gerald Casel in their review of Oliver Tompkins Ray’s spoken-word opera Woolgathering, based on singer-songwriter and author Patti Smith’s memoir about growing up in South Jersey. “Mykel Marai Nairne and the...
Arts Online director’s theater and social justice project wins award
Kevin Bott’s Ritual4Return is a 12-week program that establishes a public storytelling ritual for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to their lives outside the prison system. R4R has won the NJ Council for the Humanities’ Katz Prize.
Artist Chat Travieso wants students to collaborate with the broader community
“The work is successful when people are engaging with it, whether that’s someone sitting on a bench that I designed, or someone liking the way it looks, or a child finding joy and playing with one of my projects,” Travieso says.
Zimmerli installs sculpture by alum and professor emeritus Patrick Strzelec
Strzelec, an award-winning artist and educator on faculty from 2010 to 2021, says the sculpture, created to honor the university’s class of 1965, “seeks to reflect their magic, their trajectory, their innocence, the fervor to do right.”