FOCUS Archives
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April 23, 2008
- A vision for public affairs: building connections to strengthen Rutgers
- At 50, historic Rutgers Club 'jazzes' up its tradition and gourmet fare
- Event Highlights
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News Briefs: CAIT awarded bridge performance contract worth up to $25.5 million; Graduate School of Education and Bloustein School team up to improve national report on pre-K education; Human Dignity Award recipients recognized April 10; Larry Katz named new director of Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension; Libraries assist faculty recipients of NIH grants; Prudential makes $5M contribution to Rutgers Business School; Two Rutgers students named Goldwater Scholars; Victorious Rutgers Business School team rings NASDAQ stock market closing bell
- Panic over the unknown
- Protein Data Bank archives 50,000th molecule structure
- Faculty Q&A: Roger Balm
- Rutgers cricket club bears distinctly international stamp
- Rutgers repeats outstanding showing in RecycleMania, earns second straight ‘Gorilla Prize’
- Rutgers undergraduates to showcase wide range of research at fourth annual Aresty Symposium
- Rutgers-led team pursues innovative healing for wounded soldiers
- Students advocate on Capitol Hill for a cause close to their hearts
- Undergraduate students see internships as a gateway to a better job
- University unveils first phase of College Avenue greening plan
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April 09, 2008
- A professor and a policeman embark on separate journeys for causes close to their hearts
- Don't box us in
- Event Highlights
- Staff Spotlight: Gayle Coryell
- New book explores how men entrap women in intimate relationships
- Rutgers begins to embrace a hybrid approach to learning
- Rutgers names Francisco Werner director of the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
- Rutgers students, faculty, supporters mobilize against Iraq War
- Rutgers–Newark jazz history and research program reflects the globalization of an American art form
- Students at open hearing ask for relief from steep tuition hikes
- Teaching social work in a transitioning society
- The new research money magnet at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
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March 26, 2008
- Adjusting to the dynamic nature of cheating in the Information Age
- Center for Women’s Global Leadership joins in global campaign for universal human rights
- Faculty Q&A: Dennis Patterson
- Event Highlights
- From Irvington to Idaho to Indonesia, Jewish studies branches out
- New undergraduate philosophy journal attracts submissions from nationwide and abroad
- One-of-a-kind Rutgers noise center improves quality of life from Camden to Kansas
- Recylemania races to the final stretch
- Research reveals how food poisoning and bioterrorism toxins could be tamed
- Rutgers–Newark program aims to combat Alzheimer’s disease in black communities
- Rutgers’ Bloustein School initiative battles HIV/AIDS in New Jersey through training
- Rutgers’ turfgrass scientists advance the world’s environment through research, leadership, and education
- Shooting hoops in a hoop skirt
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March 05, 2008
- Academic Excellence Fund awards $1.6 million in grants
- Corzine proposes $38 million in cuts to Rutgers
- Event Highlights
- Fully loaded multimedia lab opens at Douglass library
- Gates Scholarship winners have lofty aspirations
- Newly created Rutgers Parents Association sends out a call for involved families
- President McCormick addresses Assembly Higher Education Committee on SCI report
- Staff Spotlight: Rawle Hines
- Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer notches 800th win
- Rutgers journalism professor protects public’s right to know
- Rutgers linguist works to preserve Mandean language and culture
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February 20, 2008
- Authors at Bookmark Series share writing experiences
- Faculty Q&A: Emmett Gill
- Event Highlights
- From bus driver to leader in higher education
- From the Depression to The Sopranos, Alito reflects on life as an Italian American in New Jersey
- Growing interest in RutgersOnline indicates acceptance of cyberlearning
- In praise of puppets
- Middle States reaccreditation process reaches zenith
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News Briefs: Camden filmmaker receiving rave reviews for movie on Mexican pilot; Camden law students provide free income tax assistance ; Holly Crawford named associate dean for research at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Law student awarded Skadden Fellowship to improve workplace protection for immigrant women ; New study shows benefits to state from transit investments
- Preparing graduate students for pressing global challenges
- Rutgers collaboration gives combat soldiers a revolutionary liquid bandage
- Three Rutgers seniors awarded Gates Scholarships for graduate study at Cambridge University
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February 06, 2008
- Agricultural Experiment Station expands its mission to help at-risk kids achieve success
- At the board
- Brodsky Center helps students exchange art and life experiences
- Event Highlights
- In Memoriam: Zachary G. Stoumbos
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News Briefs: Douglass Project to host 200 fourth-graders in science ‘stars’ program; Heldrich Center dedicates Verizon Video Conference Center; Rutgers Division of Public Safety offers free child safety seat inspections; School of Law–Camden receives gift of moot court ; Star Jersey tomato back by popular demand
- Staff Spotlight: Patricia Bender
- Rutgers initiative delves into the circumstances, policies that spark innovation
- Rutgers officials to expand seating capacity, amenities, at football stadium
- Rutgers students speak with authority on the youth vote
- When a princess costume becomes a culture
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January 23, 2008
- Awards and recognition
- Chemistry professor crowned in Nigeria for good deeds
- Faculty Q&A: Deborah Gray White
- Documenting a dubious trade
- Event Highlights
- Examining the mindset of the American voter
- Henry Rutgers Lecture on Alzheimer’s: No sugar-coating, but hope
- Rutgers Business School's hot new course: Love and Money
- Rutgers research prepares voters for 2008 presidential election
- Student interpreters hone skills, help patients at New Brunswick health centers
- Studying humanity at its worst
- The state of business in Camden: A Q&A with Mitchell Koza