Faculty & Staff Engagement

The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Karen Wei-Ru Lin, M.D., of the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Lin will complete a project at Kobe University in Japan that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within Public/Global Health. 

Rutgers University–New Brunswick has earned recognition as a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars by the U.S. Department of State, securing its place among the nation’s elite institutions for faculty and administrators selected for the program.

Six scholars from Rutgers–New Brunswick have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2024-2025 academic year for a range of projects throughout the world, as announced by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs on February 25.

Cathy Otten, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism, and Director of the Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) at Rutgers University announced the launch of a new pocket guide designed to enhance ethical engagement and reporting on survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and those at-risk.

Rutgers University is pleased to announce that six faculty members have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in a range of fields and in a variety of countries for the 2024-2025 academic year.

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 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