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"We can do better. We seem persistently to be the only nation with these kinds of tragedies occurring so frequently." In the wake of the recent shooting in Minnesota, experts Paul Boxer and Vanessa LoBue share science-backed ways to reduce gun violence: go.rutgers.edu/boxer-lobue
Experts in Gun Violence and Child Development Offer Advice in the Wake of Shooting in Minnesota
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August 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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One of my graduate students holding the floor at our constitutional studies “summer camp” mock state ratification convention at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social with @quilldir.bsky.social and cohorts from four American universities

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August 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
With half of Americans viewing those on the opposite side of the political spectrum as “downright evil,” it's hardly surprising that 80% of US adults worry about political violence, notes @alexhinton.bsky.social in his piece for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
Trump’s America Is a Tinderbox
Alex Hinton warns that rising extremism and weakened institutions could lay the groundwork for major political unrest.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Just out – my @theconversation.com piece noting that #Trump 's remarks about #WhiteGenocide in #SouthAfrica are really about U.S. #immigration and the #GreatReplacement conspiracy theory – as well as distraction from his failures to deliver his promised #goldenage theconversation.com/trumps-white...
Trump’s white genocide claims about South Africa have deep roots in American history
Trump’s claims of a white genocide happening in South Africa have been debunked by fact-checkers. But this is still the rationale for bringing white South African people to the US as refugees.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tonya Smith-Jackson Appointed Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark www.rutgers.edu/news/tonya-s...
Tonya Smith-Jackson Appointed Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark
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May 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
2 million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia from 1975-1979. How much can we learn from genocides like Cambodia to counter such actions today?

50 years later, genocide expert @alexhinton.bsky.social talks to The Scholar's Circle: scholarscircle.org/scholars-cir...
Scholars' Circle - Insights into Cambodian Genocide and Wiriyamu Massacre in Mozambique - April 27, 2025
April is Genocide Awareness Month, and no genocide was more devastating, more destructive and more emblematic of the demand for never again like the Cambodian Genocide. Often referring to as the “Kill...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Two Rutgers University professors — frustrated by the Trump administration's cuts to research funding and efforts to dictate policy on some campuses — wrote a “mutual defense compact” that calls for Big Ten schools to support each other against pressure. Their effort is gaining steam.
This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Did you know that over 159 bird species have been spotted right here on our campus? You can spot some of them this May on one of our Bird Walks! Join @rubirding.bsky.social every Wednesday at 8am by the Nature Info sign on the plaza, near Boyden and the library. (see last photo)
April 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Starting Soon: Our Sawyer Seminar on Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JR8...
Reparative and Restorative Paradigms for Environmental Justice
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April 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Happening Now: The Department of Social Work presents Immigration and Mental Health, a workshop for students 🦋
April 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Urban Education prof. Lynnette Mawhinney interviewed 30 public schools teachers to get a sense of why so many are leaving the profession, in the
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We interviewed 30 Black public school teachers in Philadelphia to understand why so many are leaving the profession
Experiences of racism affected Black teachers across the district but manifested in different ways depending on their school’s location.
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December 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Faculty are cooking this semester with new grants, awards and research institutes all coming to SASN!

Hear from Dean Mattis in her State of SASN address! go.rutgers.edu/sasn2024
State of SASN 2024
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December 12, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Kusum Mundra Strives to Make Economics Relatable to Students

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Kusum Mundra Strives to Make Economics Relatable to Students
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December 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
AI Algorithms Used in Healthcare Can Perpetuate Bias sasn.rutgers.edu/news/ai-algo...
AI Algorithms Used in Healthcare Can Perpetuate Bias
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December 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Michell Jimenez Discovers a Passion for Fine Arts at Rutgers-Newark sasn.rutgers.edu/news/michell...
Michell Jimenez Discovers a Passion for Fine Arts at Rutgers-Newark
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December 3, 2024 at 9:32 PM