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The Hollywood Reporter ranks film program among top 25
The publication has named the Rutgers Filmmaking Center among the top U.S. film schools for 2026, commenting that “Mason Gross School of the Arts is well positioned to train the state’s entertainment workforce.”
Dance alum has built a career as a Hollywood stunt performer
Amanda MacLeod’s credits include “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Westworld,” “Hocus Pocus 2,” and a Super Bowl LX Liquid Death commercial.
Taking the stage: First-year actors go behind the scenes to learn the ropes
At Rutgers, first-year acting students step into a different kind of role: assisting with the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep a production running.
Students create installation informed by ecological data
For this year’s Co-Cureate exhibition, the annual student-curated gallery show saw Art & Design and Music students work together to create an immersive, multi-sensory gallery experience inspired by ecological data related to seven species of threatened or endangered New Jersey birds.
Dance alum named NJ State Teacher of the Year
Hannah Olmo (BFA’15/EdM’16) built a four-year dance program at Dover High School in Morris County, and created the Dance Club, whose participation has grown more than 300% in two years.
Arts in Health launches events and research collaborations
The Arts in Health initiative’s program calendar opened on September 23 with a Well-Being Concert for Rutgers–Newark nursing students created in partnership with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.