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Apply Now: Summer '25 Digital Content Creator Internship

Applications are now open for the Center for Youth Political Participation's Summer 2025 Digital Content Creator Internship. Digital content creators are responsible for creating original social media content to support the Rutgers Democracy Lab. This opportunity is available to current Rutgers students from any field of study. Apply by Wednesday, May 14 at 5:00PM.

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Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship: Apply by May 18

The Eagleton Science and Politics Fellowship offers Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers the opportunity to apply their training and expertise to the development and implementation of relevant state policy. As full-time aides in the executive or legislative branch, Science Fellows bring their advanced technical skills to service in state government.

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Apply Now: Summer '25 RU Voting Ambassadors

The Center for Youth Political Participation is recruiting volunteers to be a part of the RU Voting Ambassador program in the summer of 2025 to encourage student voter registration and civic participation. Ambassadors will take part in-person registration and engagement strategies this summer as we mobilize the Rutgers University community to participate in politics. Apply by June 1, 2025.

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Eagleton E-Newsletter: April 14, 2025

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Press Release: Rutgers and UVA Lead Largest Global Law Enforcement Delegation to March of the Living to Mark 80th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation

Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience

New Brunswick, N.J. & Charlottesville, Va. – Rutgers University’s Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience and the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Center for Public Safety and Justice (CPSJ) are leading the largest-ever global law enforcement delegation to participate in the International March of the Living, commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

The fight for new parents in Congress to vote remotely is over — for now

The 19th

Jean Sinzdak, associate director of Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics, said some of the opposition stems from a mentality that members of Congress should be held to a different career standard.

“This idea that elected officials, if you’re elected to serve, you must be willing to do anything at any time, all the time you’re serving the public. There’s no room for that kind of balance or thoughtfulness — they’re still human beings,” Sinzdak said.

Her time has come: Virginia will, after four centuries, have a woman governor

Virginia Mercury

It’s about time. Fifty-four women have served as governors in 32 states and two U.S. territories beginning with Wyoming’s Nellie Tayloe Ross in 1925, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. That includes 13 now serving as governors.

This Week in Politics: Primary voting just two months away in the New Jersey governor's race

WNYC

We are just two months away from the primary in the New Jersey governor's race. Early voting starts on June 3, and old-fashioned primary day voting is June 10.

Kristoffer Shields, head of Rutgers' Eagleton Center on the American Governor joins Weekend Edition host David Furst for an update.