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Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver to Speak at Trailblazing Women Awards

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver to Speak at Trailblazing Women Awards

In celebration of Women's History Month, the Human Rights Institute at Kean University will host the Eighth Annual Evangelina Menendez Trailblazer Awards, honoring six women of distinction in New Jersey and presented by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, on Sunday, March 18.

Kean Students Hear from Designer Behind OXO Good Grips Kitchen Tools

Kean Students Hear from Designer Behind OXO Good Grips Kitchen Tools

UNION, N.J. – Tucker Viemeister, leader of Viemeister Industries and creator of the award-winning OXO "Good Grips" kitchen tools, recently gave Kean University students an in-depth lecture on the design process from conception to prototype.

Insight from an Icon in Journalism

Insight from an Icon in Journalism

Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward shared personal recollections of the Watergate scandal and his more than 40 years as a journalist covering presidents and other titans of government as the inaugural speaker for Kean University’s new Distinguished Lecture Series.

Kean University Students Create Business Software Applications

Kean University Students Create Business Software Applications

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 23, 2018 

UNION, N.J. — Kean University computer science students are creating software solutions for local and regional businesses and nonprofits.

Journalist Bob Woodward to Launch New Distinguished Lecture Series

Journalist Bob Woodward to Launch New Distinguished Lecture Series

Bob Woodward, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, will speak about the importance of a free press and investigative journalism on February 22 as part of a new distinguished lecture series at Kean University.

Kean University Scientist, Designers Support Portable Operating Room Project

Kean University Scientist, Designers Support Portable Operating Room Project

Kean University’s top academic leader and others are collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab and Harvard Medical School to develop a backpack-sized portable operating room called SurgiBox that is designed to reduce the risk of infection for patients and medical pr

Kean University Awarded National Grant for History Lab

Kean University Awarded National Grant for History Lab

Two Kean University history professors have received Kean University’s first national Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) grant to create a “history lab” that will use virtual reality to bring to life not only a historic wedding from nearly 245 years ago, but also the cultural and political world

Buongiorno, Roma: Kean Architecture Students Take on Rome

Buongiorno, Roma: Kean Architecture Students Take on Rome

For many people, Rome is a once-in-a-lifetime vacation destination. For third-year undergraduate students in the School of Public Architecture at Michael Graves College, Rome is their classroom for the spring semester.

Introducing the New Kean University Seal

Introducing the New Kean University Seal

The Kean University seal is getting a facelift.

The Office of University Relations today unveils a new seal that enhances the University’s brand by better showcasing its name and other elements that are important to its visual identity.

Board of Trustees Secretary Lamont Repollet Nominated as NJ Commissioner of Education

Board of Trustees Secretary Lamont Repollet Nominated as NJ Commissioner of Education

Governor-elect Phil Murphy today nominated Kean University alumnus and Board of Trustees Secretary Lamont Repollet, Ed.D., as the next New Jersey Commissioner of Education.