New and Noteworthy

For many, Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula brings to mind the pristine beaches of the Caribbean or ancient Mayan cities draped in jungle vines.  But the Yucatán, specifically the southern region, presents diverse and vibrant social and ecological landscapes shaped by a rich cultural heritage, current...

The fellowship funds 25 projects led by doctoral students from Rutgers – New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark across 15 academic disciplines. Fellowships support dissertation or co-authored research projects on deliberative dialogue, AI and democracy, democratic innovation, or other topics aligned...

Jane Teran is a double major in Geography and Latino and Caribbean Studies who worked with the Office of Distinguished Fellowships to become Rutgers’ fourth recipient of the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. Established in 1971, the Beinecke Scholarship encourages highly motivated undergraduate...

His book, was selected as a finalist for the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and the Arcadia Open Access Book Publishing Award in the category of Environmental Humanities. Five finalists in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal works,...

  They visited sites of historical significance to Black communities including the plaque and mural honoring radical labor organizer Ben Fletcher and the area of the 1964 North Philadelphia uprising.      They attended a public program "School Closures and Curriculum Repression" organized by the...

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship Program supports doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences as they pursue innovative approaches to dissertation research, including new methodologies, formats, and collaborations with community partners beyond the academy. The 2026 awardees...

Program 2:00–5:00 pm 2:00–2:05 — Welcome and Overview Session 1: Environment, Society, and Justice2:05 — SaraRose Salluce (Art History and Environmental Studies)Birdwatching at the Museum. Advisor: Jenny Isaacs 2:16 — Sarah Ahmad (Anthropology and Environmental Studies)How Gender-Conformist Ideals Have...

The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence Award honors faculty members who have made truly outstanding contributions to research during their early years at Rutgers. President Tate and Executive Vice President Keena Arbuthnot announced the recipients of the 2025-26...

where faculty explain complex topics like climate change, agriculture, and global development in short, accessible videos. Climate change is rewriting the future of food. What happens when climate change disrupts global food systems and the communities most responsible for feeding the world? In...

The Ascendente Award is given in recognition of an early career scholar demonstrating outstanding early accomplishment in the scholarship, teaching, and engagement of/with the geography of Latin America.  Nominators noted, "Dr. Marston’s many contributions to geographic scholarship, and in...

The SAS Research In Academic Themes review committee was impressed by the interdisciplinary and timely project proposal to address urgent challenges posed by rapid Arctic climate change. Foundational results at the AI–Earth systems interface are expected that can position the team for competitive...

The recipients of this year's department awards, selected by Geography Graduate Faculty, are:  Nia Cambridge and Dhruv Gangadharan are the Teaching Excellence Award winners. Jamie Gagliano is the Research Excellence Award winner. Katherine Cann is the Service Excellence Award winner.

This approach, they argue, is necessary to better understand and uplift Black spatial knowledge and experiences of disasters. By co-creating new definitions of environmental hazards, disasters, and disaster preparedness with Black residents in West Baltimore, the research team and their community...

The number of Philly’s Black-owned stables has plummeted in recent decades. Redlining often prevented stable owners from buying the land, Berne says. Other stables fell victim to what Berne calls “the slow violence of gentrification.” The disappearing stables mean a huge loss. “They help level the...

Students, staff, and faculty helped foster global humanitarian action at the Rutgers Mapathon November, 19th. Held on GIS Day during National Geography Awareness Week, MAPATHON brought together volunteers to digitize satellite imagery of northern parts of Côte d’Ivoire to improve the Open Street...

The article highlights the development and justice implications of climate change for small island developing states (SIDS), in the wake of Hurricane Melissa's devastating impacts on Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. In the article, Rhiney talks about the huge shortfall in available climate financing...

Hong Kong's leading anglophone newspaper, titled "Can China Balance Green Ambition with Everyday Ways of Life?". The article analyzes how, if not managed carefully, China’s green goals could perpetuate environmental injustice, impacting biodiversity and people’s livelihoods. It is available to...

Assistant Professor Jesse Rodenbiker's book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China is featured on the New Books Network Podcast.  The podcast is available here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/ecological-states The book is published open access with Cornell University...

Read more about the WINGS Women of Discovery at this link. Divya is now a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter in Ecology and Conservation. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who works on marine conservation and social science. Her research involves studies of marine conservation,...

Along with two community partner organizations, Groundwork Elizabeth and Groundwork Hudson Valley, they were awarded a Social Science Research Program grant from the Hudson River Foundation. Their project is called: "Locally-Led Adaptation to Climate Risks" and will be designed to build and...