Caitlin Smits, a current Master of Information student who’s completing the program online from her home in Minnesota, has been on a journey to find a career that’s the right fit.

Carol Ann Farino was murdered in Maplewood, N.J. in 1966 and her killer has still not been caught. In his new book about the case, Joe Strupp, a reporter for the Asbury Park Press and SC&I part time lecturer, explores the murder and its aftermath, and describes the challenges involved in reporting on true crime.

In his newest book, “Four Streets and a Square,” Marc Aronson explores 400 years of Manhattan’s history, with a focus on what he has coined “The New York City Idea”: the value of mixture, of people, of ideas, and of cultures found in New York City.”

The newly published “Excellence in Higher Education-Renewal (EHE-R) Framework,” specifically designed to assist U.S. colleges and universities recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, was written by Distinguished Professor of Communication Brent Ruben with input from colleagues from Rutgers.

Professor John Pavlik and doctoral student Shravan Regret Iyer, experts in experiential media, said presenting research for the first time in the Metaverse at the Sixth World Summit for Tourism and Hospitality Conference “was unique and surprisingly effective.”

Rutgers Today spoke with some of the university’s experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business to discuss what we have learned since the onset of COVID-19 and what we might expect in the future.