FOCUS Archives
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November 01, 2009
- A Life's Work Continues After Retirement
- Budding Stand-up Comics at Rutgers Show Their Talent
- Capturing the Many Faces of Europe
- First-year Students Challenge Themselves to Master a ‘Philosophy of the 21st Century’
- Professor-Student Duo Plots New Methods of Exterminating the Bed Bug
- Rutgers Enlists Bloggers in Recruitment Efforts
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October 01, 2009
- A Graphic View of New Jersey’s Slave History
- A Scientist's Half-Century Conundrum
- A Talented Musician Discovers a Multitude of Possibilities in Engineering
- An Alumnus Makes a Film about a Counter-Cultural Happening
- Child Prodigies Find a Challenging – Yet Welcoming – Environment at Rutgers
- Coping with the Stress of Military Life
- Drawn To The Foreclosure Crisis, Two Professors Work for Solutions
- How Children From a Newark Neighborhood Learned to Excel in Math
- Jazz Historians Discover Hidden Gems
- Faculty Q&A: Louise Russell
- Faculty Q&A: Michael Levine
- Michael Moore Tips His Hat to Rutgers Graduate
- New Chaplain Brings Compassion Without Religion
- Ode to a Misunderstood Marsh
- Professor's Risk Model Helps Guide Decision Making in Uncertain Times
- Recent Census Data Validate Professor’s Contentious ‘Buffalo Commons’ Plan
- Rutgers Students are Making Their Voices Heard in New Brunswick Politics
- The Culinary Masters Behind 5,000 Events a Year
- The Day of the Dead Crosses the Border
- The Shape of Things to Come for Study Abroad
- When Kids Get Arrested
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September 01, 2009
- A life lost on 9/ll was inspiration for new class on ethnic strife
- A New Day for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers
- All-lawyer production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' debuts at Performing Arts Center
- Do you Twitter? Join the Club
- For William Neal Brown, the full circle of a full life
- Getting at the Root Causes of Drug Addiction
- New Gateway Transit Village to Transform Downtown New Brunswick
- New Student Counseling Center Provides a Welcoming Oasis
- Professor’s Geology Games Stir Urban Students’ Interest
- Retiring Rutgers–Camden Psychology Professor Stays True to Egalitarian Social Values Shaped by the ’60s
- Rutgers Magazine: You Can Go Home Again
- Rutgers, Johnson & Johnson, and New Brunswick bring farmers market to city residents
- They Found Their Calling on the University's Farms
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May 27, 2009
- Academic Excellence Fund awards $1.5 million in grants
- An abusive ordeal at boarding school fuels a haunting play
- Awards and recognition
- Can’t remember your last vacation?
- Class of 2009: Meet 11 graduates ready to embrace the future
- Commencement 2009: Optimism amid global challenges
- Doctors of rock
- Event highlights
- Everybody into the water
- Gender scholar studies hyphenation as a cultural practice
- Leadership scholars program deepens understanding of women’s leadership
- Staff Spotlight: Yvette Bravo-Weber
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May 13, 2009
- A day of fun, learning, and discovery brings 50,000 to Rutgers
- A journey from 312 pounds to good health
- An immigration expert looks back at her year as a faculty fellow
- An intensive focus on law in store for Rutgers undergraduates at Oxford
- Center aids faculty, students in turning innovation into commercial success
- Commencement at a glance
- Faculty honored for decades of service to Rutgers
- Faculty honored for teaching, research, and service
- Four faculty members receive Leaders in Diversity awards
- Faculty Q&A: George C. Thomas III
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News Briefs: Camden MBA ranked among best in global management; Google funds research to study search process; Old Queens Reigns at Rutgers for 200 Years; Report: Women lawyers seek workplace flexibility; Rutgers researchers join federal efforts to advance battery technology; Rutgers’ Ambrose Oral History Award goes to Ken Burns ; Thomas Farris named Dean of the School of Engineering
- Rutgers pride on display in Iraq, Afghanistan
- Rutgers student makes mark on international hip-hop stage
- Rutgers University: A powerful economic engine across New Jersey
- Why mothers and daughters argue over kids, careers, and casseroles
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April 22, 2009
- Event highlights
- Family of alumna set up scholarship in her memory
- Flashback: Where did the time go?
- Four faculty members awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
- History Professor Annette Gordon-Reed receives Pulitzer Prize
- Staff Spotlight: Jill Friedman
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News Briefs: Governor Corzine, energy, industry and environmental officials hold summit at Rutgers; Governor Whitman speaks with Rutgers undergraduates in Newark ; John J. Farmer Jr. appointed dean of Rutgers School of Law–Newark; Rutgers students join oral history scholars to explore the impact of war; T. Jackson Lears, Stephen Stich elected fellows of AAAS
- Rutgers students advocate for aid on Capitol Hill
- Rutgers' Aresty Symposium showcases undergraduate research
- Rutgers, Newark schools announce research collaboration to boost student achievement
- Rutgers’ organic farm invests in students' skills
- Students honored for working their way through school
- Three individuals, two groups receive Human Dignity Awards
- Undergraduate wins award from Children’s Literature Association for top research paper
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April 08, 2009
- A professorial couple collaborates on first shared venture
- At the board
- Event highlights
- Getting serious about settling on the moon
- History professor’s book uncovers origins of Chicago ghettos
- Staff Spotlight: Michael Kornitas
- Rutgers Day to showcase the collective creativity of the university
- Rutgers dedicates new nursing building in New Brunswick
- Rutgers helps students, alumni in challenging job market
- Rutgers selected to co-lead homeland security research center
- School of Law–Camden dedicates ‘Law School East’
- Stringer to be inducted into basketball hall of fame
- Veterans’ Appreciation Reception brings together all three campuses
- Virtual reality and high-tech simulations breathe second life into language classes
- Wounded Heart exhibition offers survivors of violence a space and a medium to bear testimony
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March 25, 2009
- A family donates an economics laboratory in memory of their son
- A new support group at Rutgers for women facing breast cancer
- A passion for social justice
- Bloustein School establishes Voorhees fellowship for students committed to public service
- Camden historian researches babies across the decades
- Camden's doctoral program in childhood studies hosts children and war conference
- Congressman Rush Holt visits Rutgers to discuss enhanced funding for research
- Event highlights
- New program assists Rutgers community with human research approval process
- Faculty Q&A: Rachael Winfree
- Rutgers’ extreme commuters make the best of it
- Six new members to join Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni
- There’s room at the University Inn
- University Golf Course jumps in rating, still as accessible as ever
- Women labor leaders from two sides of the Atlantic find commonalities
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March 04, 2009
- Need help finding something at Rutgers? Who you gonna call? RU-info
- As spring approaches, Rutgers Day planning shifts into high gear
- At the board
- Eschatology?
- Etched in Memory
- Event highlights
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News Briefs: AT&T Foundation grant to Rutgers aims to increase high school graduation rates among Camden teens; Hang up and … walk; Leadership Scholars Program to be honored by state; Rutgers’ Daily Targum captures ‘Best of Show’ award from Associated Collegiate Press; Saving green, going for the gold
- Staff Spotlight: Peter Crisitello
- Professor studies developing countries to understand what influences diet and health
- Rutgers students excavate 1.5 million-year-old human footprints
- Rutgers’ $500 million economic stimulus
- Rutgers’ 'Ready to Run’ helps jump-start the careers of women who want to enter politics
- Supplier diversity program cultivates opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses to partner with Rutgers
- Tim Pernetti named Rutgers director of intercollegiate athletics
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February 18, 2009
- A new take on takeout
- Economic Report Asks: What Will Be ‘New Normal’?
- Event highlights
- Governor attends Black History Month event at Rutgers Club, inspires students
- Faculty Q&A: Joseph Marcotrigiano
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News Briefs: Nathan Yee awarded Houtermans’ Medal for Geochemistry; Alarms up, burglaries down; Future school leaders find solid training at Rutgers–Camden; Major gift complements Zimmerli’s Russian holdings; Senator Lesniak wins international award, honored by university; Two Rutgers professors receive Sloan Foundation Fellowships
- No matter how you say it, Rutgers is ready to train more interpreters
- Professor melds love of nature with love of math into a field of her own
- Rutgers provides resources, expertise to state Department of Education’s effort to keep schools safe and drug free
- Rutgers students create books of glass to foster understanding of self-inflicted violence
- Rutgers–Camden graduates and students craft new surprises for Sesame Street
- What babies know
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February 04, 2009
- A professor's book gets inside the fathers’ rights movement
- Staff Spotlight: Engelbert Santana
- Events Highlights
- Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series Commemorates NAACP Centennial, Lincoln Bicentennial
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News Briefs: Foodborne illnesses make headlines, but details are often misunderstood ; New research affirms gender bias in the workplace ; Of mice and men: Both species seem equally adept at assessing risk; Rutgers study: Immigrants comprise 28 percent of New Jersey’s economy; Understanding the genes of sorghum could help feed, fuel the world
- Preparing for the veterans
- Recession buster: A Rutgers course for $1
- RU-iptv: High-tech initiative allows university community to view campus events by computer
- Rutgers, J&J program to nurture young minds through nature
- Second semester: A rite of passage to adulthood
- Sona si latine loqueris (Honk if you speak Latin)
- Today’s milk bottles could support tomorrow’s trains in China
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January 21, 2009
- A student-run fund based on a Nobel-prize winning concept
- American Council on Education looks to Newark Campus as a learning lab
- At the board
- Awards and recognition
- Braving the chill, bearing witness to change
- Events Highlights
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News Briefs: And the survey shows … Investing in a Rutgers degree pays off; Can cell phone soap operas influence sexual risk behavior?; Delahanty to head Zimmerli Art Museum; Philadelphia mayor appoints law professor to antidiscrimination panel; Stellar reviews for Lark & Termite, new novel by Jayne Anne Phillips; Three professors named fellows of top science association
- Physics and astronomy department celebrates early career awards to five young faculty members
- Ready, set, chop
- Rutgers alumna and lecturer brings refugee monks to Newark Campus
- Rutgers experts turn thumbs down on fad diets
- Rutgers helping shape policy for new administration
- Faculty Q&A: Sean Duffy