Alumnus Greg Besner and his wife appear on TV’s Shark Tank to promote their Sunflow Chair.
The Arts
Steven Kemper, a Mason Gross School of the Arts music professor, created the soundtrack for In Memoriam: COVID in New Jersey.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, a Rutgers University–New Brunswick history professor, is the co-executive producer of HBO’s The Gilded Age and a guest historian in Ken Burns’s PBS documentary about Benjamin Franklin.
Alumna Sheryl Lee Ralph stars as Barbara Howard, the all-knowing kindergarten teacher in ABC’s hit sitcom Abbott Elementary.
The Starbucks Been There coffee cup series features a Rutgers mug festooned with university iconography.
Maura Reilly leads the museum at Rutgers University–New Brunswick with a unique perspective on presenting art.
Alumnus Dan Richer, owner of the Jersey City restaurant Razza, authors a new cookbook about his sublime pizza.
Picturing Black Girlhood: Moments of Possibility, a stirring exhibition at Express Newark, is a celebration of youth and coming-of-age.