Rutgers Global is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Rutgers Global Grants. These grants are intended to support faculty international engagement by helping initiate engagement and collaborative research, international partnerships, and new educational initiatives. The modest seed grants are offered for full-time Rutgers faculty from all campuses, including tenured, tenure-track, and clinical faculty. This year, there were four categories of grants: (1) Global Health, in collaboration with the Rutgers Global Health Institute, (2) International Collaborative Research, (3) Faculty-Led Study Abroad, and, new this year, (4) Korea University-Rutgers University co-funded Collaborative Research. 

Rutgers University and Seoul National University (SNU) have launched the Visiting Graduate Student Program for the SNU Graduate School of AI Semiconductor, a structured research immersion initiative hosted by the Rutgers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Rutgers successfully hosted its first SNU students this year: Dayoung Chun and Jihoon Kim. The doctoral candidates spent six months in the Rutgers ECE labs, attending lab meetings, engaging in one-on-one mentorship sessions with faculty, taking part in collaborative research discussions, and contributing directly to ongoing projects.  
 

Rutgers Global offered a new faculty-led study abroad program this winter called Egyptian Art: Ancient, Islamic, and Modern. This short-term program took place between semesters in January and was led by Rutgers-Newark faculty member Professor Alex Seggerman as part of a course she taught in the fall. The on-campus course covered the history of art in Egypt, including ancient sphinxes, Coptic textiles, medieval Islamic mosques, modern urban developments, and the contemporary graffiti of the Arab Spring. In January 2026, the students traveled to Egypt for ten days, staying in Cairo with a day trip to Alexandria, and visited ancient sites including the Pyramids of Giza and the King Tut treasures at the new Grand Egyptian Museum, as well as other heritage sites with diverse religious backgrounds like the Ben Ezra Synagogue, the Coptic Hanging Church, and Ibn Tulun Mosque.