Art & Design alum fuses art and STEM in data visualization career
Lia Petronio (BFA’14) has combined her experience in fine art, research, and coding to become a data visualization engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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Jazz student named 2025 Quilting Water Undergraduate Prize winner
Undergrad Brandon Mejia will be part of Quilting Water, an international public art initiative that seeks to prompt artists and scholars to consider the relationship between ecological justice and racial justice.
MGSA receives largest-ever gift
Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA) has received the largest gift in its 49-year history—an anonymous $8.8 million gift to support the school’s ongoing Arts in Health initiatives.
Alum Sebastian Stan nominated for Oscar, wins acting Golden Globe
Stan (BFA’05) is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his turn as a young President Donald J. Trump in “The Apprentice.”
Alum composes funeral march performed at ceremonies honoring former President Carter
Andrew Kosinski (BM’20) composed a hymn that has been performed by military bands in the nation’s capital at least four times this week as the country has honored and mourned the 39th president.
Dean to serve as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dr. Geary is set to assume the role of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Rutgers–New Brunswick, effective July 1, 2025. A nationwide search is underway to find the next dean for Mason Gross.
“Chaos Organizer” and alum Chelsea Olivia Friday works backstage at Broadway’s “Gypsy”
Friday (BFA’13) credits a robust Rutgers alumni network with helping her land her latest gig, as rehearsal stage manager on George C. Wolfe’s much-anticipated Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Gypsy,” starring Audra McDonald.
Theater project supports formerly incarcerated people reentering society
Ritual4Return is the brainchild of Kevin Bott, director of Rutgers Arts Online. The project works with people coming home after incarceration to develop a ritual through theatrical storytelling that helps them move on from their experiences.
Nancy Yunhwa Rao: Honorary member of American Musicological Society
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”
Research Spotlight: Robinson McClellan
Earlier this year, faculty Robinson McClellan made a rare discovery: a previously unknown waltz by none other than Frédéric Chopin.