News Archive

Associate Professor C. Brid Nicholson shares her passion for history by making documentaries that offer a different way of looking at some of the most fascinating figures of the past.

Kean hosts a discussion on gun rights and abortion with Abigal E. Disney and the Rev. Rob Schenck, as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series.

A bronze and aluminum sculpture of a young woman reading a book of poetry on a bench is installed in the heart of Kean's Union campus along Cougar Walk. A loan from the Seward Johnson Atelier and renowned sculptor Seward Johnson, the piece, entitled Captured, will be at Kean through the end of May.

The Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship at Kean University is joining the CARB-X Global Accelerator Network, an international consortium of committed scientists and experts working to develop new antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostics and other products to fight drug-resistant superbugs.

Four new, furry additions were introduced to children in the Kean Child Care and Development Center preschool classes recently, a surprise gift to the youngest Kean cougars.

The Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee, D.Min., has performed gospel with Queen Latifah and Ray Charles, but her career really started with a decision she made at Kean - to major in music.

Kean alumnus Dr. Youssef A. Kousa ’05, ’07 M.S. and his collaborators made a breakthrough discovery, identifying three genes that could be responsible for two previously unrelated types of congenital disorders — cleft lip and palate, and neural tube defects like spina bifida.

Kean University art history student Jennifer Zuniga is being groomed as a future leader in the art world with a prestigious three-year internship at the Newark Museum. The Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative internship exposes college students to the full range of museum departments, paying them while training them in all aspects of the business.

The new College of Business and Public Management building rising on Morris Avenue on the main campus in Union has a name, Hynes Hall. It will bear the name of Jim Hynes, a 1963 Kean graduate, and his wife Carole, who announced a significant contribution toward the development of the Global Business School’s new academic facility late last fall.