PISCATAWAY, NJ – Journey Berry majored in geography and geology and will be heading to Alaska to study melting glaciers to complete her research project.  Mike Theka is taking his hard-earned degree in mechanical engineering and going to commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. He will soon be starting a 10-week training regimen in Ohio. The future holds untold possibilities down an unknown number of roads for Berry, Theka and their fellow members of the Rutgers-New Brunswick Class of 2023. And although they are eager to make their way in the world, the Rites of Passage Ce ..read more

PISCATAWAY, NJ – The New Brunswick High School baseball team won for the first time this season, defeating North Plainfield 7-4 in the first round of the Greater Middlesex Conference Invitational Tournament on Tuesday, May 9. Wilmer Martinez went 2 for 4 with three RBIs for New Brunswick, which scored three runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-2 lead. Houston Devin and Emanuel Mateo each had run-scoring hits for the Zebras and Ronaldy Peralta had a hit and scored two runs. The winning pitcher was Amaury Recio, who allowed three hits and three runs in 4 1/3 innings. Peralta pitch ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The light dances off fuchsia frocks, royal blue ball gowns and 150 or so other prom dresses hanging from long racks  They’re a kaleidoscope of shimmering satin and sparkling sequins that has been assembled by Carolina Moratti and Aris Cocino, two New Brunswick residents and friends who hit on the idea to round up perfectly fine gowns that had been worn once or twice and then shuffled to the backs of closets or stored in attics. Moratti and Corcino’s vision is as brilliant as a silky chiffon dress: Instead of seeing these gowns shipped off to a thrift shop, why not ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – If Monday afternoon’s news conference was about spiking the football on new four-year labor contracts for 9,000 Rutgers educators, researchers, clinicians and librarians, then the members of the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union were practically doing a touchdown dance. These 2,700 union members, who are relied on each semester to teach about a third of all university classes in subjects ranging from trigonometry to Chaucer, have often called their employment situation the most precarious of the three unions' rank and file that participated in the first faculty strike in Rutger ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – You’ll have to forgive Edmund DeVeaux if he’s been experiencing a circle-of-life moment since recently being hired as the deputy director of the Department of Human and Community Services. DeVeaux last worked for the city in 1991, when he became New Brunswick’s first African-American mayoral aide, working for a then political newcomer, Jim Cahill. Even before that, he spent his junior year at Rutgers serving as an intern at the Civic League of New Brunswick during a time when it was waging a battle in support of the so-called Mount Laurel housing initiative. The Civic Leagu ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – For almost 30 years, Vanessa Dunzik would load the trunk of her car with whatever she could gather at food distribution centers such as the former MCFOODs, lug it back to New Brunswick and distribute it to those who needed it most. Her almost daily routine eventually led to the creation of Vanessa’s Pantry at Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church on Kirkpatrick Street. It was a space, radiating with hope and heart, where she spearheaded a city’s efforts to vanquish food insecurity, one can of tomato soup, one box of mac and cheese, one sack of rice at a time. Mrs. Dunzik, who ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating a burglary that reportedly occurred at the Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Office – the home base for the more than 70 such organizations on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. The burglary of the offices at 84 College Ave. reportedly occurred between 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2 and 8:50 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, according to a public safety alert from Rutgers police issued Thursday, May 4. Police said the building was unoccupied, but did not specify what was taken other than to say “items of value” were removed. Polic ..read more

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Jacqueline Giz’s graduation from the Rutgers Honors College represents more than a milestone in her academic career. It’s another step forward in a personal path toward a graduate in art history – the same degree her mom, Kimberly, was working toward when she died in 2014. When Giz completed a paper, when she volunteered as an Honors College Ambassador, when she traveled to Italy to study ancient Roman artwork, when she served as a docent at the Rutgers’ Zimmerli Art Museum, she felt an especially close connection to her mom – as if she has set out to complete this jou ..read more

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