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20 Years Later: 9/11 Day of Service

�鶹��ý���� students volunteered on and off campus on September 11, marking the 20th anniversary of the attacks. “Many of our students weren’t even alive on that tragic day and many were only a couple of years old,” says Center for Community Engagement Director Bryan Murdock. “This opportunity helps reinforce the tremendous sacrifices of first responders and the importance of public service.”

Red Hawks Help CDC Improve Mask Wearing

�鶹��ý���� students collect data to improve mask wearing and fight COVID-19. “The feedback from this study can be used to create proper messaging for the future to promote healthy behaviors,” says MPH student Stefanie LoBue. Read the story.

A New Feel For Fall

Campus feels full of life again – with students rushing between classes, relaxing on the Quad, getting social and literally jumping for joy. View this gallery of images by University Photographer Mike Peters.

A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

Dynamic works of art will be installed throughout campus in surprising and inventive ways this semester. Learn more.

COVID Update

Read the Weekly COVID Newsletter online to learn about Monday’s on-campus vaccination clinic, deadlines for managers, temporary employees and AFT 1904 members to be vaccinated, new research findings, and more. Read the newsletter.

In the News

• Manveer Mann (Marketing) about companies that offer trade-in programs, including Apple, IKEA and more.
• The University of Rochester’s alumni magazine by Ellen S. Bakalian, an adjunct professor in Classics and General Humanities, about losing her husband in the 9/11 attacks. It was originally published in The Atlantic magazine in 2019.
• Brigid Harrison (Political Science) about the public matching fund disbursements soaring in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race.
• Francesca Laguardia (Justice Studies) about the delays in the trial of accused 9/11 plotters. The reporter found Laguardia via organic search, following our publication of a faculty expert piece on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on American life.

Kudos

• Reasons to be proud: �鶹��ý���� has been named “Best of the Best” for LGBTQ students by Campus Pride and the top New Jersey school on Study.com’s LGBTQ-Friendly Schools list.
• Valerie Tauriello, a health and physical education teacher and 2004 �鶹��ý���� graduate risked her life to at Soehl Middle School in Linden last week, the Star-Ledger reported. School principal Gwendolyn Long said in praise of the teacher, “this is every day with Ms. Tauriello, thinking of our students first.” of this heroic action.

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