NEWS
Recent News
- School receives grant to expand arts access
- Alum’s album translates bioelectrical signals from plants into music
- Students, alumni collaborate on film spotlighting rising sea levels
- Students design limited-edition Rutgers merchandise
- Ian Koebner named inaugural chair and endowed professor in Arts in Health
Mason Gross faculty awarded grants in collaboration with the School of Public Health
In the spring, faculty from Mason Gross and the School of Public Health were brought together to share research ideas as part of a "speed networking" session. Through funding provided by both schools, $10,000 MGSA-SPH Collaborative Seed Grants were awarded to to each...
Fall 2025: Meet our new faculty
This year we welcome to our full-time faculty new arrivals in Art & Design, Music, and Theater. Get to know the newest members of our teaching community.
Alum receives Fulbright to learn Swedish glassblowing technique
Art & Design alum Serafina Kennedy (BFA’23) spent nearly a year learning graal, a decorative etching process.
Rutgers Theater ranked among “25 Best Drama Schools in the World” for 2025
“Rutgers’s location means that students are able to regularly work with industry professionals who come in as guest artists as well as access opportunities in New York,” The Hollywood Reporter says.
Nancy Yunhwa Rao named Board of Governors Professor of Music
The Rutgers Board of Governors acknowledged Rao’s “award-winning scholarship on a wide array of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, musical modernism, cultural fusion and racial representation.”
Ellen Bredehoft named interim dean
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Ellen Bredehoft will assume the role of Interim Dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts, effective July 1, 2025, as the university continues the search for the school’s next permanent Dean.