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Award-winning chef and food policy activist Tom Colicchio, head judge and executive producer on Bravo Television’s Top Chef, will be the featured speaker at the Human Rights Institute conference in March that will focus on hunger and food insecurity.

Wenzhou-Kean University enters the next phase of its development as an international university of distinction with a recently approved comprehensive employment package for faculty that will ensure WKU continues to attract and retain outstanding scholars from around the world.

The award-winning Kean Gospel Choir performed on Sunday, December 2 at the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City, opening for the annual Christmas Spectacular show.

Kean University School of Computer Science Executive Director Patricia Morreale, Ph.D., has joined the ranks of Nobel laureates and science pioneers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Kean's first AAAS fellow, Morreale received the prestigious national honor for achievements in advancing science.

Julia Nevárez, Ph.D., assistant professor and sociology program coordinator, is the author of a new book, Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption After Hurricane Sandy. She talks about looking beyond efforts to rebuild infrastructure and exploring ways to rebuild communities.

Kean University adjunct professor Irisa Leverette helps her students learn algebra, encourages them to do homework, and reduces “math anxiety” by rapping in the classroom.

It’s like putting scholarships, academic initiatives and building upgrades all in one gift-wrapped box. On Giving Tuesday — the global day of charitable giving on November 27 — Kean University supporters can help fund all of those things by making an online donation to the Kean University Foundation.

Art and the public good come together for graduate student Cristina Fittipaldi at Kean University Galleries where she combines her two passions — art and improving the public welfare.

The Institute for Life Science Entrepreneurship (ILSE) was awarded a $100,000 planning grant with Union Township to expand its outreach to life science entrepreneurs and its University programs.

The lifelong psychological toll of the Holocaust on children who lived in hiding to avoid capture by the Nazis was recounted in emotional detail at Kean by Albert Hepner, one of those “hidden children.”