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Dr. Jayne Anne Phillips has been quoted in the Chicago Tribune about the novelist E. L. Doctorow. Click here for the article.

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MFA Student Named Finalist in Hurston/Wright Award

MFA fiction student Chidi Asoluka, a Newark native, has been chosen as one of two Finalists in the 2008 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. His novel excerpt, ''Exchange,''was chosen from a nationally representative pool of applications; Chidi will be awarded a cash prize of $500.00, to be awarded in Washington DC at the annual Hurston Wright Awards Ceremony on July 25, 2008. Chidi will also attend the Hurston Wright Writers Week Wofkshop at American University. Chidi's current workshop Professor, Tayari Jones, won this award as a graduate student. The Hurston Wright Award welcomes Chidi Asoluka to ''the Hurston Wright family and support designed to nurture [him] as a Black writer and artist.''

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Rutgers Newark MFA Student Participates in the Wihtney Biennial

MFA poetry student Jacob T. McCall will participate as host of an independent, artist-run radio project committed to providing an alternative media platform for artists, activists, musicians, and community members as part of the Whitney Biennial. Jacob is hosting an hour long show called The Rutgers Reading Hour which will feature MFA students Kevin Kilroy, Dawn Ryan, and Paul Vidich, among others. The show will be produced in the storefront adjacent to the Whitney on Saturday, May 3rd , 2-3, and on May 23rd, 3-4. Listeners may tune in at person, online or at 91.9 FM.

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MFA Student Introduced in the Paris Review

MFA fiction student Ryan McIlvain is featured ("Introducing Ryan McIvain" on the cover) in the most recent Paris Review. His story, 'Keep It Bible,' is a must read.

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MFA Program Partners with National Endowment for the Arts to Host Mexican Writers

English Professor and MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips recently accompanied NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and staff to Mexico City for presentation of the new bilingual anthology of contemporary American short stories, Lo que cuenta el vecino (What The Neighbor Says), in which her story, '1934,' was included. This fall, the NEA will cooperate with Dalkey Press to publish a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry, and will bring two of the poets to the US as part of an on-going cultural exchange. The Rutgers Newark MFA Program will host the writers, yet to be chosen, as part of our Writers At Newark Reading Series on Nov. 19, 2008. The NEA will sponsor this bilingual reading and the MFA Program is very pleased to act as host. As always, we invite participation from across the spectrum of Rutgers Newark faculty and students.

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MFA Program Partners with National Endowment for the Arts to Host Mexican Writers

English Professor and MFA Director Jayne Anne Phillips recently accompanied NEA Chairman Dana Gioia and staff to Mexico City for presentation of the new bilingual anthology of contemporary American short stories, Lo que cuenta el vecino (What The Neighbor Says), in which her story, '1934,' was included. This fall, the NEA will cooperate with Dalkey Press to publish a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poetry, and will bring two of the poets to the US as part of an on-going cultural exchange. The Rutgers Newark MFA Program will host the writers, yet to be chosen, as part of our Writers At Newark Reading Series on Nov. 19, 2008. The NEA will sponsor this bilingual reading and the MFA Program is very pleased to act as host. As always, we invite participation from across the spectrum of Rutgers Newark faculty and students.

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Dr. Jayne Ann Phillips and MFA Program in the NY Times
Click here for the full article.

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Professor Myroslava Znayenko of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Ukraine.

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2008 Leaders in Diversity Award Recipients


Elpidio Laguna Diaz, Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures

Kimberly DaCosta Holten, Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures

Laura Anne Lomas, English

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Prof. Holzapfel in the Star Ledger

Click here for the article.

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Professor Jack Lynch reviews Germaine Greer's book

See below for a link to Jack Lynch's review of Germaine Greer's new book about Anne Hathaway, published in the Los Angeles Times last month.

 Click here

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MFA students published in Granta. Dr. Jayne Anne Phillips, Director of Rutgers-Newark MFA Program, recently submitted a number of stories to Granta online. Granta is one of the premier outlets for fiction.
Granta online has accepted 2 students - Erin McMillen and Evan Roskos, and the work is up! This recognition is an impressive accomplishment for the students at this stage in their careers.
Granta online will also post interviews with the authors. Click here for link.
Click here for stories

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Annette Gordon-Reed in the News. In a column published in the Washington Post and Slate Magazine, Jacob Weisberg mentions Annette Gordon-Reed's work on Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson as among The Best Books and Web Sites about the Birth of America.
Click here for article

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Internationally Known Chinese Art Expert, Dr. Annette Juliano, Named Chancellor's Distinguished Research Scholar.
Rutgers will honor Annette Juliano in fall 2008

click here for the article

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The review of Annette Gordon-Reed's "The Hemingses of Monticello" on the front page of Washington Post Book World.
Click here for full article.

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Associate Professor Ruth Feldstein and Associate Dean Jan Lewis quoted in article about Sarah Palin and politics of motherhood
Click here for full article

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Associate Professor Rigoberto Gonzales Receives Poetry Book Center Award
The Poetry Center Book Award has been given by The Poetry Center,based at San Francisco State University, since 1980 to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year.
The Poetry Center Book Award carries a cash prize and an invitation to read, along with the award judge, at The Poetry Center in San Francisco.
Previous recipients include Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds and C. D. Wright. This year, the award judge, Bhanu Kapil, selected Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (Tupelo Press, 2006) by Rutgers- Newark MFA faculty member Rigoberto Gonzalez, from among hundreds of entries.
The reading took place on Thursday September 18, 2008, in San Francisco.

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Annette Gordon-Reed featured in The NY Times
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Click here for NY Review of Book article

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Guest Professor Annette Gordon-Reed in the News Please see latest reviews of Professor Gordon-Reed's book “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” (W. W. Norton): Click here for full article
Click here for full article

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Associate Professor Gary Farney in the NY Times
Maureen Dowd's column for tomorrow's New York Times features Associate Professor Gary Farney. Click here for full article .

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Edin Velez's video " Meta Mayan II" has been included in the exhibition " Synthetic Times- Media Art in China " at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing. The exhibition was part of important cultural events leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games this past summer.
For more information Click here

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Attached is a Call for Proposals for RU-FAIR professorships. The University intends to appoint three such professors, one on each campus.
The professorships will be funded by the $3.67 million-dollar NSF grant obtained for Rutgers by Joan Bennett and others(FASN Dean Phil Yeagle is a co-PI on the grant). The purpose of the grant is to advance women in science, mathematics, and engineering at Rutgers.
We encourage applications from among distinguished senior faculty in science(including Social Sciences) and Math.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Jan Lewis would be happy to meet with professors about how best to use the professorship to advance women in science, engineering, and math on our campus.
There is considerable flexibility in how the position and the funds it brings with it could be used.
While the applications -- due December 1 -- are to be submitted directly to the New Brunswick office that is administering the grant, please inform Dean Lewis if you intend to apply.
Please click here for Call for Proposals

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Professor Clement Price was quoted in today's Washington Post article on the historic significance of Obama's election.
Click here for full article

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The Department of Earth and Environmental Science's Professor Alexander Gates debuts on the Discovery Channel on Tuesday, December 2nd at 10 p.m..
Professor Gates is included in the series "Sci-Trek's" episode "New York Earthquake".

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Professor Clement Price Named as a Member of Obama's Transition Team. Click here for full article

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MFA Program's Dr. Tayari Jones Awarded Grant The United States Artists Foundation awarded Dr. Tayri Jones, of Rutgers-Newark MFA program, an unrestricted grant, ater review of her two published novels and an excerpt from her work in progress, The Silver Girl.

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The Star Ledger's front page of the New Jersey section features Prof. Claus Holzapfel's research into the ecology of contaminated land in Liberty State Park.
Click here for full article

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Click here to download Arts and Sciences Profiles in excellence http://fasn.rutgers.edu/downloads/ASPrideopt.pdf

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NJN News featured Prof. Alec Gates and his work at Science Park H.S. in Newark.
The report is by Patrick Regan, NJN's science/technology correspondent.
Click here for broadcast information

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Professor Barry Komisaruk's research is discussed in the lead article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine article on female desire: Click here for full article

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Professor Annette Gordon-Reed's The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography.
Click here for full article

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Professor Annette Gordon-Reed of the History Department of Rutgers University Newark was awarded the National Book Award for her groundbreaking book: The Hemingses of Monticello. The work was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Professor Gordon-Reed has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History.

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Rutgers-Newark MFA Program's Dr. Jayne-Ann Phillips' fiction novel Lark and Termite nominated for National Book Award.
Click here for announcement

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Professor Timothy Raphael's The President Electric:Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance (University of Michigan Press) has been released.

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