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- Rutgers Theater Department ranked among The Hollywood Reporter’s “25 Best Drama Schools in the World” for 2025
- Nancy Yunhwa Rao named Board of Governors Professor of Music
- Ellen Bredehoft named interim dean
- Dance alum uses movement skills in her career as a social worker
- Best in Class: Five of Our Favorite Courses at MGSA
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2025 MGSA Magazine
Alum Alonzo Adams gets some assistance from Art & Design student Jocelynn Hunter Dow and recent alum Beatryz Mendes Hornung to create a mural in SHI Stadium honoring Paul Robeson; Dance alum and social worker Maddy Zijdel uses her movement background in her position at the university’s Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance; Theater alum Sebastian Stan has a busy awards season, with a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination; Arts Online faculty Robinson McClellan unearths a formerly unknown Chopin waltz; the Filmmaking program is mentioned among the “30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada” by Moviemaker magazine; Music alum Andrew Kosinki composes a funeral march performed in the nation’s capital and beyond during ceremonies honoring former President Jimmy Carter; the school endows a new faculty chair in Arts in Health; and much more!
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- Alum Alonzo Adams paints a Paul Robeson Mural on view at SHI Stadium (VIDEO)
- Lang Lang performs the 2024 world premiere of Chopin’s Waltz in A Minor, “Found in New York,” discovered by Arts Online faculty Robinson McClellan (VIDEO)
- Every day is Earth Day in Denise Wagner‘s class on upcycling
- Student documentary spotlights Mexican American health care educators in New Brunswick (VIDEO)
- Award-winning theater project Ritual4Return, founded by Arts Online director and Rutgers alum Kevin Bott, helps formerly incarcerated citizens create and perform a homecoming rite of passage (VIDEO)
- The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” performs President Jimmy Carter’s funeral march, composed by alum/Army Staff Sgt. Andrew Kosinski (VIDEO)
- Graduation: MGSA celebrates the class of 2025 (SLIDESHOW)
- Alum Eric Lindberg‘s bluegrass band Nefesh Mountain discuss their new album, Beacons, on NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday (AUDIO)
- Alum Jennie C. Jones discusses her sonic sculptural installation Ensemble, which opened on April 15, 2025, in New York City as the Roof Garden Commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (VIDEO)
2024 Multimedia Content
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- Forward, March!: The Marching Scarlet Knights perform in the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (VIDEO)
- London Calling: Experience a day in the life with Theater student Molly McInturff at Shakespeare’s Globe in London (VIDEO)
- Music alum and Grammy-winning trumpeter Terell Stafford discusses William “Prof” Fielder (AUDIO)
- “This Year at Mason Gross” | 2023-24 Year in Review (VIDEO)
- Draw My Day: A six-panel graphic novella by Art & Design first-year student Hope Clemens
- Timelapse: Art & Design MFA alum Jason Baerg installs “Nomadic Bounce” at Mason Gross Galleries (VIDEO)
- More of Theater alum Tori Sterling’s designs for LIVE! with Kelly and Mark‘s Halloween Special
- Class of 2024 Music student Mal Malone conducts the Rutgers Rainbow Symphony (VIDEO)
- Music alum Promise Ashu’s NPR Tiny Desk Contest submission (40:47–50:02) (VIDEO)
- Convocation 2024 Livestream and Slideshow (Video)
2023 Magazine Multimedia Content
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- Power Trio: All Three Student Theater Groups at Rutgers–New Brunswick Are Led By Students of Color
- MGSA Celebrates the Class of 2023 (SLIDESHOW)
- MGSA’s EDI Strategic Plan [PDF]
- 2023 Commencement Ceremony (VIDEO)
- PBS features Art & Design alum Laya Nuna Yawar’s colossal mural, on permanent display at Newark Liberty International Airport (VIDEO)
2022 Magazine Multimedia Content
Magazine Multimedia Content
- Rutgers Students Teach Social Justice Through Dance to Children in New Brunswick (video)
- Percussion Instructor Javier Diaz Plays in Spielberg’s West Side Story Remake
- Assistant Director of University Bands Julia Baumanis Leads Pep Band at Jersey Mike’s Arena (video)
- A Documentary of September’s March2RUGardens (video)
- Mason Gross Celebrates the Class of 2022 (slideshow)
- nj.com’s Interactive COVID Memorial: A Collaboration with faculty Steven Kemper (audio/visual)
- Remembering Dance Faculty Member Kim Elliott (audio)
Past Issues (2010–Present)
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