News
List of 20 news stories.
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Newark Academy Kicks Off its Historic 250th Year
Newark Academy students, faculty, staff and representatives from our Alumni Board of Governors gathered together to kick off the Academy’s historic 250th school year with the annual Convocation ceremony on Wednesday, September 6 in the Coraci Performance Hall.Read More -
“Color-Light-Spirit” on Exhibition at NA's Teiger Gallery
K.L. McKenna is showing a body of work at the David Teiger ’47 Gallery for Studio Arts at Newark Academy from September 5 through October 6, 2023. Her exhibit, Color-Light-Spirit, features landscapes of the American West.Read More -
Asher Herman ’24 Named a World Food Prize Borlaug Scholar
This past year, Newark Academy’s Asher Herman ’24 was named a Borlaug Scholar by the New Jersey Youth Institute World Food Prize at the Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Science.Read More -
Newark Academy Concludes its 249th Year and Prepares For its Historic 250th with a Trip to Newark
In honor of its upcoming 250th anniversary year, the employees of Newark Academy joined together to visit and deepen the school’s connection with its origin city of Newark. On Tuesday, June 13, more than 130 Newark Academy faculty and staff embarked on a bus tour of the school’s four previous locations in the City of Newark — reflecting on the past before heading into the school’s 250th year.Read More -
Kai Youngren ’19 Heads to Oxford as Rhodes Scholar
Newark Academy alumnus Kai Youngren ’19 earned the prestigious honor of being named a 2023 Rhodes Scholar, a highly-coveted international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.Read More -
Four NA Students Compete on the VEX Robotics World Stage
Four Newark Academy students competed at the VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas from April 25 to May 4, which brings together the best robotics teams from around the world to compete. NA students and their respective teams were chosen among the top 800 qualifying teams, out of more than 30,000 teams from 50 countries that initially competed for a spot at the World Competition.Read More -
Newark Academy Graduates the Class of 2023
Read MoreNewark Academy conferred the degrees of 114 students from the Class of 2023 at the 249th Commencement Exercises in the Kirby Gymnasium on Sunday, June 11, 2023. The Class of 2023 boasted 65 International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidates, 34 National Merit Scholars and 21 Cum Laude Society Members. -
NA Leaders Share Why Trustees Need To Develop New Skills to Be Agile and Effective
Read MoreNewark Academy was featured in the Summer 2023 issue of Independent School, the award-winning quarterly magazine published by the National Association of Independent Schools. -
Three NA Art Students Featured in Inspired Minds Exhibit
Read MoreThe artwork of three Newark Academy IB/Advanced Art students is currently on display at the Inspired Minds: Young Artist Exhibition at the South Orange Performing Arts Center. Luke Betlow ’26, Saira Rajparia ’24 and Vivian Zhang ’24 were selected out of 1,000 entries by a jury of distinguished artists, photographers and curators to be included in this year’s exhibit. -
Newark Academy Hosts First Annual Women’s Summit During Reunion 2023
During a day of reminiscing, catching up and celebrating more than 250 Newark Academy alumni returned home to campus to reconnect with each other, faculty and staff at Reunion on Saturday, May 6, 2023.Read More -
NA Alumni Association Confers Annual Alumni Awards
In a heartfelt and reminiscent celebration of the relationships built at Newark Academy that still persist even decades after graduating, the Alumni Association conferred its top honors to distinguished alumni — including three who met their spouses at NA. The awards were presented during the annual Alumni Awards Ceremony at Reunion on Saturday, May 6, 2023 in the NA Dining Room.Read More -
Global Speaker Series: Rabbi Gewirtz Discusses the Rise of Anti-Semitism
Newark Academy students, faculty and staff participated in an all-school diversity, equity and inclusion assembly on anti-semitism with guest speaker Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz on Tuesday, April 25 in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.Read More -
Newark Academy Announces 2023 Ad Lumen Awards
The prestigious Ad Lumen Award is presented annually to seniors who, in the eyes of their peers and of the faculty, best represent the ideals expressed in the Newark Academy mission statement. While the award recipients typically excel in the classroom, what truly distinguishes them is their commitment to enriching the NA community.Read More -
Alumnus Nihal Mehta ’95 Talks Entrepreneurship with NA Students
Read MoreAlumnus Nihal Mehta ’95, co-founder of Eniac Ventures, returned to campus to speak to students in IB Economics and the Entrepreneurship and Business Club about his experiences at NA and his journey into venture capital. Students had many questions for Nihal about networking and becoming entrepreneurs. -
NA Theater Arts Earns 10 FOXY Nominations
Read MoreNewark Academy’s theater arts program garnered ten nominations from Montclair State University’s Theatre Night FOXY Awards for both its Middle School spring production of The Giver and Upper School fall drama Clue. -
Newark Academy Students Impress at the 2023 Terra New Jersey STEM Fair
Read MoreSeveral Newark Academy students received impressive awards for their projects at the 2023 Terra New Jersey STEM Fair on March 24-25. -
NA Mock Trial Wins Regional Championship
Read MoreThe Newark Academy Mock Trial Team concluded its season as Northern New Jersey Regional Tournament Champions in the Vincent J. Apruzzese High School Mock Trial Competition. NA Mock Trial defeated Sussex County Champions Newton High School in a highly competitive regional round at the New Jersey State Bar Foundation in New Brunswick on March 1, 2023. -
Global Speaker Series: Black History Month Speaker Dr. Bettina Love Talks History of Hip Hop and Civic Empowerment
Read MoreAs part of the Global Speaker Series, Newark Academy’s Black History Month Speaker Dr. Bettina Love, an award-winning author and Columbia University professor, discussed the African origins of hip hop culture and civic empowerment to Newark Academy students on Monday, February 27 in the Coraci Performance Hall. -
NA’s Chameleon and Jazz Collective Earn Top Honors at Mingus Festival
Read MoreNewark Academy’s big band, Chameleon, and jazz combo, the NA Jazz Collective, each took first place in their respective categories at the 15th Annual Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival held at The New School of Jazz in New York City on February 18-19. -
Newark Academy’s Day of Giving Raises over $250,000
Newark Academy’s 10th annual Day of Giving raised $253,454 from alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends. A total of 366 individual donors came together to support the school’s academics, athletics, arts, financial aid and extracurricular activities.Read More
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