“By Ourselves” Literary Exhibit Now Open

The Writers House and the Paul Robeson Library have joined together to put on the exhibition, “By Ourselves: Rutgers Student Literary Magazines, 1923-2017.”  The exhibit, which opens on September 1st, will include work ranging from the 1920s, with the Chanticleer, a student humor magazine, to more recent publications, such as Matter, a visual art magazine, and Undiscovered, a … Continue reading “By Ourselves” Literary Exhibit Now Open

Patrick Rosal Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Patrick Rosal, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English, has received the Academy of American Poets‘ Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his book, Brooklyn Antediluvian (Persea Books, 2016).  Established in 1994, this award “recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.”

Cooper Street Writing Workshops Begin 9/16

This September, the Writers House will sponsor two Cooper Street Writing Workshops: Rutgers–Camden alumna and associate editor of New Jersey Monthly, Shelby Vittek will be the instructor for “Writing New Jersey,” a workshop that will take place over the course of three Saturday afternoons.  In this non-fiction writing workshop, participants will read and write about the … Continue reading Cooper Street Writing Workshops Begin 9/16

Digging through History: The Arch Street Project

An accidental project that began last November has morphed into an adventure of a lifetime for forensic archaeologist Kimberlee Moran, Director of Forensic Science.  Moran, along with area archaeologists such as Dr. George Leader from The College of New Jersey and Anna Dhody, curator of the Mütter Museum, and a group of dedicated students, first … Continue reading Digging through History: The Arch Street Project

Announcement of Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to the following faculty members who received promotions approved by the Board of Governors at a meeting on Thursday, June 15th: Department of Economics Dr. Jinpeng Ma – Professor I Department of Fine Arts Professor Margery Amdur – Professor I Department of Mathematical Sciences Dr. Gabor Toth – Distinguished Professor

Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows

Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal, both faculty in the Department of English and the Graduate Creative Writing Program, were named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows.    Gregory Pardlo, an alumnus of Rutgers–Camden, also received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for … Continue reading Gregory Pardlo and Patrick Rosal Named 2017 Guggenheim Fellows