FOCUS Archives
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December 12, 2007
- A look at admissions, recruitment, and retention with Courtney McAnuff
- A Rutgers laboratory takes a clinical look at the human experience
- Calling faculty for a field trip around New Jersey
- Camden doctoral students begin deeper discoveries of what it means to be a child
- Staff Spotlight: Emma O’Flanagan
- Engineering students try to solve problems with imaginative designs
- Groundbreaking ceremony kicks off Livingston Student Center expansion
- International students benefit from language immersion program, bring new perspectives
- Jeannine F. LaRue appointed vice president for public affairs at Rutgers
- Learning the tools of the trade
- Researcher turns tables on feminist stereotypes – and causes a stir
- Rutgers helps improve water resources in New Jersey
- Rutgers president announces sweeping plan to strengthen alumni relations
- Rutgers recognized by DEP for efforts to educate public on water pollution
- SCILS students learn how to communicate corporate social responsibility
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November 28, 2007
- Confucius Institute at Rutgers to teach New Jersey about China
- Event Highlights
- Facilities employees improve workplace and language skills
- Gearing up for RecycleMania 2008, and looking for help
- Faculty Q&A: Keith Wailoo
- Lakewood High School's top students visit Rutgers–New Brunswick
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News Briefs: Express Yourself! Announcing a Rutgers–Newark poetry contest; Five ‘good neighbors’ to be honored for contributions to Newark ; NJ nurses near exhaustion due to heavier work loads, Rutgers survey finds; Raydiance collaborates with Rutgers and nation’s largest tissue bank to develop innovative tissue processing approaches; Rutgers physicists show how electrons ‘gain weight’ in metal compounds near absolute zero temperature; Rutgers’ Center for Government Services awards Wyckoff Township with top honor at state League of Municipalities ; USDA cooperative agreement funds mosquito project at Rutgers
- Q & A: Richard Edwards
- Rutgers launches a center for lipid research
- Rutgers ranked among top productive research universities nationwide
- Rutgers tears down a tower in Little Egg Harbor
- Son follows mother's professorial footsteps at College of Nursing
- To LOL or not to LOL?
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November 07, 2007
- Bob Woodward tells war stories, defends old-fashioned fact-gathering
- Staff Spotlight: Celeste Fisher
- Event Highlights
- Four Rutgers professors named fellows of national science association
- Green cleaning chemicals may be responsible for fewer sick days, better employee health
- Lessons from Europe’s urban boom
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News Briefs: London’s Financial Times ranks Rutgers Business School among the world’s best Executive M.B.A. programs ; One year after N.J. civil unions law, opinions on gay marriage are unchanged; Rutgers plans to bring “ocean observatory” to K–12 classrooms; Rutgers’ Center for State Constitutional Studies celebrates first decade of developing constitutions across nation, world; World-renowned Rutgers neuroscientist Wise Young recognized
- Online directory connects media with Rutgers experts
- RBS professor named a “Favorite Undergraduate Business Professor” by BusinessWeek
- The Institute for Research on Women expands its offerings to undergraduates
- Winter session classes growing in popularity
- Young Rutgers researcher blazes trail between plants and human health
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October 24, 2007
- Rutgers scientists part of Nobel-winning panel
- 'State of the Newark Campus'
- Agents of environmental change
- Faculty Q&A: Alexander Motyl
- At the board
- End-of-life recollections of World War II combat make their way to the stage
- Event Highlights
- Middle States reaccreditation: A community effort
- President’s staff awards recognize leadership and teamwork
- Rutgers community views preliminary plans for College Avenue
- Rutgers physicist earns Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship
- Spreading Rutgers' expertise far and wide across New Jersey
- Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey breaks ground in New Brunswick
- Undergraduate education conference homes in on new curriculum
- University welcomes first class of Presidential Fellows
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October 10, 2007
- A new vision for Livingston Campus
- Annual address looks to future with emphasis on global and local progress
- Don’t Cancel Class: Call in a substitute educator
- Event Highlights
- How a small fish is tied to our fate
- How to shrink the carbon footprint
- LEAP Academy University Charter School marks 10th year
- Staff Spotlight: Mary Ann Cancio
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News Briefs: Academia and industry share technical advances in stem cell research ; Challenge to Rutgers students: Know how to reduce Rutgers’ carbon output to zero?; Nursing Professor Rachel Jones wins New York Times 2007 Nurse Educator award; Retiring pharmacy school dean lauded at Pharmaceutics Conference 2007; State task force on campus security releases report
- Rutgers appoints new pharmacy dean
- Rutgers commemorates first encounter between New Brunswick and Fukui, Japan
- Rutgers–Newark programs aid multilingual students
- State of the Camden Campus
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September 26, 2007
- A new center at Rutgers–Camden joins together biomedical research and computational technology
- Awards and recognition
- Beyond paper, Writers House explores digital side of literary and creative work
- Event Highlights
- Insane asylums: Professor explores a 19th-century architectural experiment to cure social ills
- Intelligent system predicts bus arrival times and reduces transportation complaints
- Faculty Q&A: Jeff Friedman
- New certificate program gives employees tools to tell the Rutgers story better
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News Briefs: Caffeine and exercise can team up to prevent skin cancer; Contest to stamp out carbon emissions on New Brunswick Campus; Edible films may protect food from spoilage, contamination; Genetics receives $7.8 million for autism research; Grants awarded to study prostate cancer diagnoses; More than $6 million for stem cell research; National award for research into children’s mental health and substance abuse; Nursing faculty member studies how to reduce medication errors; Researchers come together under umbrella of climate change; SCILS professor examines what went right in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; State of Our Unions 2007 report released
- Presidential task force report: Rutgers alums represent untapped potential
- Rutgers and Virginia Tech join forces to create a memorial archive
- Rutgers showcases life journeys of women scientists online
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September 12, 2007
- A new year at a new Rutgers: An essay on undergraduate education by Barry Qualls
- A striking, new gateway into the Camden Campus
- A welcome for all
- At the board
- Career Summer Institute at Rutgers encourages high school students to challenge career stereotypes
- Event Highlights
- Staff Spotlight: Larry Jacobs
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News Briefs: Board of Governors approves $1.7 billion budget, adjusts tuition; Rutgers Board of Trustees elects 2007–08 officers; Rutgers gets grant to promote historical tours; Rutgers staff recognized for many years of service; Rutgers University Foundation raises record-breaking $103 million; Rutgers wins national award for student services; Rutgers–Newark, city of Newark team up to improve services to citizens
- Rutgers hosts emergency management exercise
- Rutgers' strengths captured in 30 seconds
- What I learned on the New Faculty Traveling Seminar
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May 30, 2007
- A new crop of achievers
- Completing a year of challenges and successes
- Digging deep into press history
- Faculty honored for years of service
- Gift honoring a beloved professor will attract top mathematician to Rutgers–Camden
- Graduate School honors faculty, staff, and students
- New director of international programs lends her global expertise to the School of Arts and Sciences
- New Jersey Film Festival
- Faculty Q&A: Philip Scranton
- Rutgers Day in Trenton
- Rutgers Gardens: Raising its profile, maintaining its serenity
- Rutgers’ new faculty bus tour sparks relationship with Lakewood High School
- The Story of O
- Undergraduate education: residence life
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May 09, 2007
- Staff Spotlight: Andrea Dragon
- Budget constraints mean sacrifices for students
- Commencement 2007 at a glance
- Faculty honored for teaching, research, and service
- Family ties complete Biomedical Engineering Building
- Law professor explores hidden issues behind racy tabloid headlines
- Love and learning at Rutgers' young horse teaching and research program
- National Academy of Sciences elects two Rutgers professors
- New committee on efficiency and entrepreneurship seeks to shift spending culture
- Philip L. Yeagle appointed dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–Newark
- Rutgers program offers treatment and support to families struggling with Tourette Syndrome
- Rutgers students have their say in Washington
- Rutgers’ Center for European Studies: It’s a small world after all
- Rutgers’ Raritan Quarterly celebrates 25 years
- Studs Terkel receives Stephen E. Ambrose Oral History Award
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April 25, 2007
- A new dean of Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
- At the board
- Coexistence Festival coming to New Brunswick
- Expanding an Earth Day tradition
- Games people play – and the languages in which people play them
- Human Dignity Award recipients stand for diversity, tolerance, and respect
- Faculty Q&A: Kenneth McKeever
- Rutgers announces mobile phone emergency notification system to enhance campus safety
- Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni to induct seven new members
- Rutgers prevails in RecycleMania
- Rutgers' Executive MBA: Thriving, diversified and ‘healthily’ competitive
- Spring lectures, luncheons, festivals, concerts, and more
- Street Law program debuts at Rutgers–Camden to help city’s teens
- Two lovers of language meet across the centuries
- Undergraduates showcase original research at Aresty symposium
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April 11, 2007
- A student for sustainability
- Australian criminology scholar appointed dean of School of Criminal Justice
- Staff Spotlight: Dallas A. Grundy
- Health science educators create program for reaching health and wealth goals
- New book by Mason Gross professor chronicles quest for the perfect violin
- New Jersey Folk Festival and Ag Field Day festivities
- Rutgers names public safety training center in honor of student, firefighter Kevin Apuzzio
- Rutgers' DIMACS recognized as compassionate employer
- Scarlet Knights' Final Four season is marred by radio host’s racist, sexist slurs
- Three employees lend voices to faculty and staff fundraising campaign
- University College dean returns to his Liberian homeland to lend a hand
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March 28, 2007
- At the senate
- Awards and recognition
- Frank Sinatra Jr. in concert with Rutgers Jazz Ensemble
- Hans Fisher, nutritional biochemist, to retire
- Faculty Q&A: Karima Bennoune
- Longtime dean to lead Rutgers Parents Association
- Mythology and real life
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News Briefs: Digital directory of women's artists' papers now online; Engineers develop process to recycle unused paint into plastics; NIH awards $1.5M to researcher to study a motor protein linked to heart failure, stroke ; Rutgers students dance to the tune of $220K for charity; Rutgers–Camden Tech Campus to get $1.5 million for new biotech center ; Scientists unlock physical, chemical secrets of plutonium
- Presidential doodling: Keys to history – or Freudian fidgeting?
- Rowdy kids in the library? Rutgers to the rescue
- Rutgers buildings to go green
- Rutgers launches Institute for Women and Art
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March 07, 2007
- A celebration of faculty-authors, Camden spring writers conference, self-portraiture in photography exhibit, and more
- Academic Excellence Fund Awards $1.5 million in grants
- Connecting crime to the living world
- Crafting words in Camden: A writing course where the subject matter is you
- Knight Foundation invests in new early education academy
- Luxury hotel is complete in downtown New Brunswick
- Michael Palis named interim dean of Camden Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Reading across America with 'Mr. President'
- Rutgers-led center to tease out terrorism clues, detect disease outbreaks
- Rutgers’ School of Social Work establishes Center for Gambling Studies
- Faculty Q&A: Sarah Ralston
- Soil scientist, forensic geologist digs into his work at 90
- The many shades of Mason Gross musician Cristina Pato
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February 21, 2007
- At the board
- Camden dean named interim provost
- Gospel concert, Art @ Lunch, Agent Orange discussion, and more
- Staff Spotlight: Michelle Deering
- New Jersey’s identity complex: Striving for distinction in New York City’s shadow
- Rutgers Board of Governors votes to reaffirm continued leadership of Richard L. McCormick as university president
- Rutgers database expands knowledge of local public finance
- Rutgers professor helps immigrant workers build on their dreams
- Rutgers students to compete in international programming contest
- Undergraduate education: First-year students
- What the world – and Rutgers – can do about global warming
- ‘Jazz Master’ Dan Morgenstern wins 7th Grammy Award
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February 07, 2007
- A new year, a new look
- Advancing women in science
- Black History Month events, jazz, Toulouse- Lautrec, and more
- Camden provost to become Drexel law dean
- Faculty Q&A: Carol Kaufman-Scarborough
- Congressman tours facilities at School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
- Feminist scholar fills in missing link in globalization studies: Women
- From the street to the classroom
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News Briefs: A new standard for measuring doctoral programs; Economist sees weak long-term job growth, rising unemployment and low inflation for New Jersey; New human resource management major approved for Camden business school; New leadership for Prudential Business Ethics Center; Rutgers survey examines public response to recent spinach recall
- Noise echoes in cell communications
- Rutgers leads the way in "green" purchasing
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January 24, 2007
- A meteorite's first public display, the Marion Thompson Wright lecture series, a dictionary exhibit
- How an archaic flood control system fed the Hurricane Katrina disaster
- iTV Studio uses technology and expertise to broadcast Rutgers' voices over the airwaves
- Mason Gross artist’s terrorism alibi becomes virtual exhibition
- Faculty Q&A: Meredeth Turshen
- New Jersey Legislature honors Rutgers’ outstanding football season
- Rutgers anthropologist to receive biology's equivalent of Nobel Prize
- Rutgers’ submarine glider on a mission off the coast of Antarctica
- State of the New Brunswick Campus
- Student-artist reinterprets Marquis de Sade in book cover designs and wins accolades
- Undergraduate education: Health services
- Vice provost for development named at Rutgers–Newark