NEWS
Recent News
- 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
Filmmaking program continues to grow, seeking national recognition
The film program at Mason Gross evolved from a certificate program to a full-fledged degree, that trains students in the many facets of filmmaking: research and treatments, cinematography, lighting, field production, directing, script writing and story boarding, editing, and postproduction.
Box office gold: Meet MGPAC’s operations manager
“When Federal Work Study students are assigned to us as first-year students, they arrive with a wide variety of life and work experiences,” says Cogan, a 24-year RU employee. “My favorite type of moment is watching the students grow, mature, and learn new skills during their journey as employees at the MGPAC.”
Intro to Arts Leadership cited as one of Rutgers’ “innovative courses”
The Arts Management and Leadership minor, open to all MGSA and SAS students, supports students seeking to gain skills or build careers in arts administration.
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.”
Music alum’s album awarded five stars from DownBeat Magazine
Classical composition alum Brian Landrus (PhD'19) is having a banner year: Not only has the sax player been appointed associate professor of jazz composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston; he also released an album awarded a five-star review by DownBeat...