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Rutgers 2025 Commencement speakers

Commencement

Rutgers Board of Governors Approves 2025 University Commencement Speakers

Conservationist Peter Seligmann; writer, actor and director Ramy Youssef and acclaimed visual artist Mickalene Thomas will address graduates at ceremonies this spring.

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News From the Board of Governors: April 2025

Visitors gather around a cupcake display inside the College Avenue Student Center during Rutgers Day 2023.

Community

Forecast Calls for Rainy Rutgers Day, But Celebration Goes On

Graduating seniors Michael Gibbons (SOE ’25) and Aaron Clarion (SOE ’25), roommates and founders of A's 4 All (Accessible, Accommodating, Adaptive and Adventurous for All), design and modify toys and devices for children with physical and developmental disabilities.

Senior Engineering Students Launch Club to Adapt Toys for Disabled Children

Pope Francis

Experts

As the World Mourns Pope Francis, What Comes Next?

Rutgers University-New Brunswick student Reece Goodson stands in a gallery at the Zimmerli at Rutgers-New Brunswick.

Shifting Focus From Past to Present, an Art History Major Prepares to Launch His Future

Students

Every Day Is Earth Day in This Mason Gross Class on Upcycling

Blue blobs float in blue liquid

Research & Innovation

Scientists Identify Agent of Transformation In Protein Blobs That Morph From Liquid to Solid

jet seen through wildfire smoke

Health

Canadian Wildfire Smoke Cooled New York by 3 Degrees and Trapped Air Toxicants

Omar M. Abuattieh stands in a lab room in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.

Students

This Pharmacy Student Is the University’s 15th Truman Scholar

Rutgers Senior Neha Bhat

Internship Leads Rutgers Senior to Full-Time Job With Goldman Sachs

Rutgers biological oceanographer Mya Sharpe (left) and Virginia Institute of Marine Science doctoral student Maya Thomas in Antarctica answered questions from students, some of them 6,000 miles away.

Research & Innovation

Live From Antartica: Rutgers Opens a Portal to One of Earth’s Most Remote Places