Rutgers University-Newark School of Arts and Sciences

Rutgers University-Newark School of Arts and Sciences The Newark College of Arts and Sciences (NCAS) and University College-Newark (UC-N) enroll approximately 60% of the undergraduates at Rutgers-Newark.

With degrees offered in nearly 40 undergraduate fields, 17 master’s programs, and 8 doctoral programs, the School of Arts & Sciences–Newark provides opportunities for academic exploration in a wide range of studies. NCAS is the largest school at Rutgers-Newark and the second largest school at Rutgers University. NCAS traces its history back to the establishment of Dana College in 1930. The dynamic

urban location of Rutgers-Newark gives all NCAS and UC sudents access to outstanding opportunities for learning in and outside of the classroom, including hundreds of internships in the New York/New Jersey
metropolitan area. We are the heart of this great University. The School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-Newark (SASN), including the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University College and the Honors College, traces its history to the establishment of Dana College in 1930. With undergraduate majors in over 40 disciplines, 17 graduate programs and 15 doctoral programs, SASN is the largest of the seven schools at Rutgers-Newark. We are opportunity. Quality, opportunity and diversity are at the core of our educational mission. For more than 70 years, SASN has provided a first-rate education at a very reasonable cost to a diverse range of students. Many are the first in their families to attend college and are native speakers of languages other than English. We also welcome adult and non-traditional students through our University College program. Our graduates embody excellence and go on to pursue very successful professional careers in both public and private-sectors. We are excellence in scholarship. The world-renowned scholars within the School of Arts and Sciences have distinguished themselves in a variety of fields. Their scholarship and our emphasis on teaching permeates our classrooms and equips students with confidence, knowledge and insight.

To our faculty, staff, and students who are new to SASN, welcome!To all other members of our community, welcome back!We ...
09/01/2026

To our faculty, staff, and students who are new to SASN, welcome!

To all other members of our community, welcome back!

We are facing serious existential challenges—some posed by technology, some by political shifts, some by social and relational dynamics.

We have a choice. We have a fight on our hands, and universities must be at the center of that fight. We are producers and holders of the knowledge of our societies.

We will not (and should not) always agree with each other. We will not always like each other. However, we, the faculty, staff, students, and administrators of SASN, must show up for each other, and we must show up for this fight. We must work together to find new and creative ways to fund scholarship and scholars. We must challenge ourselves to defend free thought and free speech. We cannot compromise ideas because political winds change. We must do our work. We must always support the people among us who are least visible and most vulnerable. None of these will be easy. But we are built to do hard things

It is a new year, and a new day. I will leave you with this. Optimism is the expectation that things will work out for the best in the future. Hope is optimism with a plan. Our charge is to stake our future in hope.

SASN, let’s go!

To read the full version of this message visit: https://sasn.rutgers.edu/news/fall-2026-welcome-dean-mattis

Class of 2026 A frightening childhood bout of the flu that sent Christina Sarkes to the hospital in the middle of the ni...
05/28/2026

Class of 2026

A frightening childhood bout of the flu that sent Christina Sarkes to the hospital in the middle of the night sparked an interest in medicine at only eight-years-old.

“All I remember is how kind the doctors were,” said Sarkes, 21, who grew up in West Orange. “That stuck with me. What began as a moment of fear became the beginning of a lifelong ambition.”

The daughter of Egyptian immigrants is working to become the first physician in her family. She graduated this week from Rutgers University-Newark at the top of her class with a 3.9 GPA, completing a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States.

While medicine is her number one goal, Sarkes—who graduated with minors in music and chemistry—has a story that goes beyond science. A dedicated flutist since third grade, she has carried her love of music into college, performing with the NJIT Wind Ensemble. Music, she said, offers a balance in what can often be a stressful environment. After recently discovering literature on how music can be used as medicine, Sarkes, the recipient of the Kimler Endowed Scholarship awarded to a full-time students pursuing a career in music through the department of Visual and Performing Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, has begun exploring how the arts might intersect with healing in her future career.

“I’d love to see how music can play a role in patient care,” she said. “I think there’s something powerful there.”

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05/21/2026

Congratulations, Class of 2026 🎓

05/21/2026

Congratulations Class of 2026!! 🎉🎓

05/04/2026

Chemist Demyan Prokopchuk’s research lab designs catalysts that leverage reactive carbon-hydrogen bonds and high-energy electrons to help develop sustainable fuels, medicines and materials. He explains why this is so exciting in the video above.

“Demyan is recognized as one of the emerging leaders in the field of catalysis, an enormously important field for the manufacture of a variety of ubiquitous products, from pharmaceuticals to agricultural fertilizer,” said Piotr Piotrowiak, Chair of the Chemistry department. “Demyan also is highly regarded as a mentor of PhD students—four of whom have completed their research and defended their doctorates—something that is uncommon for someone so early in their career, and another testimony to his creative and thoughtful science, which comes to fruition in the hands of his students.”

Prokopchuk is among 126 young scientists from across the U.S. and Canada who were recently selected as 2026 Sloan Research Fellows, a two-year $75,000 fellowship awarded annually to early-career researchers whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.

Five extraordinary Rutgers University graduates were inducted into the university’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni on Apri...
04/29/2026

Five extraordinary Rutgers University graduates were inducted into the university’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni on April 23, including SASN’s Gloria Bachmann.

Gloria A. Bachmann NCAS’70, RWJMS’72, an internationally recognized physician and a trailblazer in advancing obstetrical and gynecological care, has been a Rutgers faculty member since 1978 and is now an associate dean and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Women’s Health Institute.

After earning her bachelor’s in biology and chemistry at Rutgers–Newark and her master’s in medical science at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), Bachman was among the first women to complete a four-year obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Pennsylvania. Winner of the RWJMS Meritorious Service Award in 2018, she serves on the University Senate and previously served on the Board of Trustees. A first-generation college student, she shared a memory of her father joining her on her first day on the Rutgers–Newark campus. “On the bus trip back home, he told me he couldn’t be happier and more proud of me, and that Rutgers was an amazing university,” she said. In concluding her remarks, she said, “I’m blessed to be a Rutgers grad. I’m blessed to be on the Rutgers faculty. And I’m blessed to be receiving this recognition. I can see my father’s smile!”

Today’s the day! How Will You Make A Difference?From the SASN Student Emergency Fund, which provides support to students...
04/24/2026

Today’s the day! How Will You Make A Difference?

From the SASN Student Emergency Fund, which provides support to students encountering financial crises that interfere with their Rutgers education, student scholarships such as the Dean’s Scholarship Fund and the Honors College Scholarship Fund, which helps students achieve their dreams, experiential learning opportunities such as the Africana Studies Fund which supports student participation in opportunities across NJ and beyond, and funds that supports world-changing research in areas like aging and brain health, there are over 30 funds at SASN to choose from.

See all the funds and give today at the link in our story or bio!

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