Rutgers University is proud to welcome more than 7,000 international students from around the world to our campuses each year. Rutgers Global’s International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) team supports our international community by providing services and enriching experiences from their arrival to Rutgers to graduation and beyond. Some of our international students choose to become Orientation Leaders (OLs) at our International Student Orientation events, held in the fall and spring. These OLs volunteer their time and energy to ensure that new international students arriving to Rutgers feel welcomed and prepared to start their academic journey at Rutgers.

On April 29, Rutgers Global hosted a graduation celebration for all graduating international students and students who participated in a study abroad program during their time at Rutgers. The event drew a crowd of more than 200 and was held in Trayes Hall on the Cook Douglass campus. 

Fiorella Prada, assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS), was awarded a two-year Rutgers Global Environmental Change Grant for the project, “Upwelling Systems: thermal refugia for reef-building corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.”

Rutgers Global presented the latest in its International Scholar Speaker Series on April 17, a conversation with Dr. Claudia Gil Arroyo and Dr. Ming-Yi Chou, two faculty members from the Rutgers Cooperative Extension at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS). The event was moderated by Ruth Carll, State Program Leader in Consumer Horticulture and Master Gardener Programs, also from SEBS.

From an early age, Vukosi Marivate was fascinated with machine learning, the idea of using existing data and algorithms to teach computers to be more accurate and better predictors of human behavior.

Rutgers University–Camden Chancellor Antonio D. Tillis traveled to Ghana and Nigeria in January to explore ways for the university to engage more deeply in the region through student and faculty exchanges and collaborative partnerships. He was accompanied by Senior Vice Chancellor Jimmy Jung on the visit and, in Nigeria, joined by Rutgers Global Associate Director Shakirat Bola Ibraheem.

Rutgers University is part of the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Delegation that is convening 100+ higher education leaders and senior officials from both countries. Vice President for Global Affairs Eric Garfunkel and Executive Director of International Student Services Mohini Mukherjee from Rutgers Global are representing the university and meeting with alumni while in India. See photos from the visit.

A total of 12 from Rutgers were offered awards from the U.S. international educational exchange program

The Center for African Studies received a generous donation from the Mad Rose Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Neal Rosenthal, founder of the Mad Rose Group and a proud Rutgers alum (Class of ’67). The purpose of the donation is to enhance undergraduate education in African Studies at Rutgers University through travel support for study abroad programs in Africa. The Center for African Studies has now joined together with Rutgers Global–Study Abroad to formally launch Access Africa, a new study abroad initiative that will provide significant financial support to undergraduate students who participate in a study abroad program in Africa. 

Rutgers University is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, Rutgers will host 25 of Africa’s brightest, emerging leaders for a six-week Leadership in Business  Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Rutgers has been chosen as an Institute Partner each year since the program’s inception in 2014 and is connected to our 375 alumni of the program. Get to know some of our alumni here.

Rutgers Center for Research on Ending Violence and Rutgers Global Partner with U.S. Department of State to Host Discussion on Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Intervention

Andrew Krapivin, named a Goldwater Scholar last year, plans to build upon his research in computer science at the University of Cambridge