Rutgers University Programming Association

RUPA is the university-wide student programming council that serves the Rutgers community by providing a variety of events appealing to the diverse student body on all five campuses. Examples include concerts with artists like Pitbull, comedy shows with artists like Aziz Ansari, the Annual Homecoming Charity Bed Races, entertaining lectures and performances, art projects, and so much more.

Dean Papathomas

Dean Papathomas joined Rutgers in 1989 as an Associate Professor (promoted to full Professor in 1997) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is the Associate Director of the Laboratory of Vision Research. His research interests are in human and machine vision, neural mechanisms in vision, image processing, imaging systems, and scientific visualization techniques. He is investigating the mechanisms that underlie the perception of visual motion, stereopsis, texture, and the deployment of attention in vision. In particular, he studies the role of visual attributes (color, luminance, shape, spatial frequency, etc.) in perception, with the ultimate goal of developing quantitative models of biological mechanisms in these modalities.

Rutgers University Student Assembly

Representing the undergraduate student body of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The Rutgers University Student Assembly, hereby know as RUSA, is the undergraduate student government of Rutgers. It serves to represent student interests to the university administration for better conditions for the overall student body. RUSA is also the student representative to local, state, and national governments. We lobby on non-partisan issues for higher education. In addition to this, it is an affiliate of New Jersey United Students, hereby know as NJUS, and the United States Student Association, hereby known as USSA.

Geek Week

Geek Week is an annual week of events celebrating all things “geeky” at Rutgers University. From tabletop and video gaming, to music, cosplay, academic panels based on gender and ethnic diversity, and more, Rutgers Geek Week has been nationally recognized by organizations such as ACPA and San Diego Comic-Con, and featured guests such as Chris Hardwick, Nick Offerman, and Tory and Kari of Mythbusters. By focusing on the students and their passions, Geek Week seeks to make meaningful differences in students lives by providing opportunities for them to find community, be accepted, and gain exposure to non-familiar topics and experiences in geek culture.