
Two Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) researchers recently won a $250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue a program to increase the number of Black, Latinx and Indigenous students earning degrees in the geosciences at the Rutgers’ Newark and New Brunswick campuses, and to help them enter graduate school and/or successful careers in the field.

Victoria Abraira, an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, was named one of 126 researchers drawn from a select group of 51 institutions in the U.S. and Canada.