When linguist Sarita Monjane Henriksen arrived on campus as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, she was struck by the similarities between Rutgers-Newark and her homeland of Mozambique.
“I’ve been describing Mozambique as the most linguistically and culturally diverse place. But nothing had prepared me for what I’ve seen here,’’ said Henriksen, a professor at Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo in Mozambique.
When Rutgers students imagine life after graduation, they might picture graduate school, a new job, or maybe even a gap year abroad. But for some, the path leads to something bigger: two years of service overseas with the Peace Corps. We sat down with Connor Cullinane, a Rutgers alumnus from the class of 2023, who served in Morocco from 2023 to 2025, to hear what the experience was really like.
Rutgers Vice President for Global Affairs honored for his contributions to global science and African scholarship
Rutgers University’s Vice President for Global Affairs, Dr. Eric (Rick) Garfunkel, has been elected as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), joining an elite group of eighty-eight distinguished scientists and scholars (16 from beyond the continent) recognized for their exceptional contributions to scientific advancement and scholarship.
A panel comprised of alumni from the 2024 Rutgers Mandela Washington Fellowship Program presented at the 12th International Conference of the African Materials Research Society (AMRS) in Kigali, Rwanda in December. The panel discussion, titled “Tech Entrepreneurship in Practice” included Highness Mtemah from Zimbabwe, Douglas Remhunga from Zimbabwe, and Rivaldo Costa from Angola, and was moderated by Akpene Hoggar from Carnegie Mellon University–Africa.
A cohort of 25 of the best and brightest young African leaders came to campus this summer to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship program at Rutgers.
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.