News Archive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 2016

Kean University held a moving Veterans Day ceremony and officially opened the University’s new Veteran Services Lounge on Friday, November 11.

The Kean University Concert Choir, Chorale and Men's Chamber Choir performed Choral Music of England on Sunday, November 13 in Kean's Enlow Hall.  The program featured selections by Handel, Purcell, Gilbert and Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Rutter.

The New York TImes interviewed Kean professor and papal historian Christopher Bellitto on the Archdiocese of Newark's new leader, Josep Tobin, who was recently elevated to the role of cardinal by Pope Francis.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 24, 2016

Kean University Student-Athlete Krista LaMaina of Oaklyn, N.J., Named National Player of the Week

Kean architecture students Robert Gallagher, John Grega and Gabriel Morales presented at Notre Dame University's The Art of Architecture: Hand Drawing and Design conference on Saturday, October 1.

The Metalsmith Student League won top honors at Kean Day, the university’s annual celebration of student groups and activities, taking home the $500 grand prize. Entrants were judged on originality, audience interaction and Kean pride.

College includes lots of firsts. For alumni Olivia Triano and Alex Lopes, some of their fondest firsts were together, including the first time they met while working in Kean Athletics.

The painter Stuart Davis was the subject of a traveling retrospective, recently at the Whitney Museum in New York, emphasizing his later paintings and development of shifting jazzlike variations over the course of decades. 

Two Kean University communication majors learned first-hand what it takes to report on a US presidential candidate when they heard former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speak at the recent NABJ/NAHJ Annual Convention and Career Fair in Washington, D.C.