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Now in its 15th year, Rutgers Future Scholars is a national model for educational access. 👏 Learn more about the pioneering program that's put college within reach for more than 3,200 underserved students in New Jersey and welcomed its latest cohort - the class of 2032 - on June 6. https://lnkd.in/eRPiYa3b

It’s Father’s Day this #ScenicSunday, so Dad goes first. We lead off with an action shot of Bob Shutte, a three-year letterwinner as a third baseman and shortstop for Rutgers from 1970-72, at the plate. We then make our approach with an image of his son Rob, the 2023 Division I Northeast Coach of the Year who just completed his 12th season at the helm, directing Scarlet Knights men’s golf at an event. ⚾⛳ Bob also played football as a defensive back, wide receiver, and kicker at Rutgers from 1969-71, earning three varsity letters. The family matriarch – Catherine – is a Rutgers graduate who first met Bob as a student sportswriter for the Daily Targum. 🏈📝

#MeetThePeopleOfRutgers Adam Staats helps undergraduate students who have experienced foster care and/or at-risk for homelessness find their path at Rutgers as the Price and Camden Fellows Programs manager. “Watching our Fellows cross the finish line at Rutgers are some of the happiest moments of my life.” Role: Manager, Youth and Community Development, Institute for Families Years with Rutgers: 19 https://lnkd.in/gs2CwkPq

Whether you’re observing the holiday today or Monday, we wish everyone a safe, happy, and healthy Juneteenth. Sometimes referred to as Emancipation Day, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It marks June 19, 1865, when federal troops arrived in Texas and announced that the enslaved people in that state were declared free. New Jersey passed the state holiday in September 2020. State leaders decided the holiday should have a fixed day every year: the third Friday of June. President Joe Biden signed the law making Juneteenth a federal holiday in June 2021. The national holiday is celebrated on June 19 itself, unless it’s a weekend.

For this week’s story of #HowWeMetAtRU, we have Matthew & Lillian Sontz ✨ "I am Matt Sontz from Wallington, NJ. Lillian Rodriguez was from Harrison, NJ. In 1996, I was a Rutgers engineering school sophomore living in the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Lillian was a freshman English major who commuted to Rutgers College from her dad’s home in Edison, NJ. We both worked at the then-new Lowes Theaters on Route 1. We would hang out at work, at my fraternity, all over campus, and downtown New Brunswick. We loved late-night runs to Pizza City in New Brunswick. We did everything together. We fell in love. I graduated in 1999 and went to Rutgers law school in Camden. We got married in 2002. We had our first son Tyler in 2003, and I graduated from law school. Lillian graduated in 2004, and we bought our first and only house in Westfield, NJ. We had our second son Dylan in 2007. We had our daughter Skylar in 2011. Our eldest son graduated high school in 2022 and went to college. He’s home for the summer! Our younger son is a lifeguard and wrestles for Westfield high school. Our daughter is finishing her first year of middle school. We have been married for 21 years. We love to look back at our time at Rutgers. Our son attends the Rutgers wrestling camp every summer. We love our chance to return home and reminisce about where we started. Thank you, Rutgers! We love you!" Submit to the #HowWeMetAtRU series ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dJ3sPme

WRSU-FM, 88.7, celebrating 75 years on the air as the home of Rutgers Radio, inducted its inaugural Hall of Fame class in a special ceremony in New Brunswick this past weekend. Renowned DJ and former MTV host Matt Pinfield, as well as former New York City radio executive Mark Chernoff, were among those honored by the station founded on the AM dial in 1948. 📻 “We’re thrilled to honor these key contributors and to recognize those who have gone on to great professional success and made WRSU proud,” said broadcast administrator Mike Pavlichko. 📍 https://lnkd.in/eCrnYXgV

Extreme weather threatens the world's food supply, leading to higher produce prices and reduced agricultural productivity. Please watch this video to learn how Rutgers plays a critical role in developing plants with higher yields that are resistant to disease and climate change. 🌪️🔬🌱

For Arnold Rabson, Director of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, training tomorrow’s scientists is a family tradition. As Father’s Day approaches, he looks back on the contributions of his parents, whose studies changed the course of medicine, while he continues their legacy through his own work. “My parents were all about service,” Rabson said, “and doing the best they could for people who needed help.” Read the inspiring story: https://ow.ly/Yov150OMk7R

This stylish pup knows how to rock the Rutgers bandana while lounging fireside. Who else wants to join this husky's cozy club? 😄❤️ #RURuffRuff 🐾 📸 IG: codythesablehusky Submit your pup to the #RURuffRuff series 🐾➡️ https://lnkd.in/d8QKXJn6

This #ScenicSunday, we advance some more to score next to the College Ave Gymnasium on the New Brunswick campus, where a historical marker denotes, “On November 6, 1869, on this site once known as College Field, Rutgers College hosted the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, in the first intercollegiate football game. The Rutgers team, then known as the Queensmen, defeated Princeton 6-4, catalyzing the development of modern American football.” 🏈