FOCUS Archives
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December 10, 2008
- A grateful father helps a Rutgers center
- Beloved professor honored for leading 100th conference
- Events Highlights
- Former University College dean named president of University of Liberia
- Faculty Q&A: Gretchen Chapman
- Lights, camera … learning
- New book brings Rutgers football archives to life
- New dean on Cook Campus to expand global experience for students
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News Briefs: 'Cinderella' debate team defeats traditional powers to win tournament; Camden neighborhoods combine charm, friendliness and quick commutes; EcoComplex wins 2008 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award; Law schools collaborating with state on juvenile justice improvements; Rutgers–Camden choir brings community together for the holidays
- Researcher studies what works – and what doesn’t – to kick the smoking habit
- Rutgers director of Intercollegiate Athletics to step down
- Rutgers receives grant to establish Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health
- Rutgers students teach fourth-graders a lesson in empathy
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November 19, 2008
- 'Rutgers Against Hunger' enlists university community in effort to help feed hungry in New Jersey
- A call for financial restraint at colleges and universities nationwide
- Event highlights
- For good works, academic credits
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News Briefs: $750,000 grant to support 10 doctoral fellows in nursing; A call for applicants to Rutgers Faculty Traveling Seminar; Graduate School of Education unveils new master’s program; History professor to play a key role in shaping the country’s approach to humanities; New statue of Walt Whitman unveiled at Rutgers–Camden; Think green? Join Rutgers’ Environmental Stewards Training program
- Recovery Housing at Rutgers an oasis for students struggling with substance abuse
- Rutgers Day brings residents of New Jersey to campus
- Rutgers marks 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence
- Rutgers plays key role in mining data from world’s biggest particle accelerator
- Students study Rutgers’ hometown
- Staff Spotlight: Tamara Pellien
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November 05, 2008
- Educational Opportunity Fund gala comes to Rutgers' New Brunswick Campus to celebrate 40th anniversary
- Event highlights
- Student Spotlight: Martha Guarnieri helped student organizations get on the same political page
- Mason Gross students design pocket folders with sustainability theme
- Oliver Sacks muses on creativity to a rapt Rutgers audience
- Rutgers historian's new book offers window into the world of slavery
- Rutgers opens new food innovation facility
- Rutgers' Fulbright Scholars
- Student legislative interns work on the state’s important issues
- The corporate dean
- The tiniest drive-through
- With help from Rutgers, women in prison get online for success
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October 22, 2008
- A discussion on diversity with Rutgers' General Counsel
- A three-story public art installation connects the old and new at Rutgers School of Law–Camden
- An academic’s love affair with the George Washington Bridge
- Event Highlights
- Exercising prudence in the face of financial crisis
- First-time research forum on gender, ethnicity, and race promotes interdisciplinary dialogue
- Fugees founder and former Rutgers student screens documentary of life on the streets
- Faculty Q&A: Karen Cerulo
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News Briefs: Gerald C. Harvey inducted into Rutgers Board of Governors ; Rutgers institutes self-reported academic records to streamline admissions process; Rutgers researcher uncovers link between gamma wave brain activity and early development; Rutgers–Camden acquires esteemed magazine, Story Quarterly; Rutgers–New Brunswick receives $2.3 million grant for major antipsychotic medications study
- Outstanding service, teamwork awarded at president's staff recognition program
- Popular Rutgers computer manager recovering after balloon accident
- Rutgers Business School graduate founds iSpeech
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October 08, 2008
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- Beyond the ivory tower: Rutgers honors commitment to human rights
- Camden interim chancellor co-authors book about reproductive revolution
- Event Highlights
- Father and son musicians enroll at Mason Gross School of the Arts
- First-year students guard their right to vote by studying rigged elections
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News Briefs: $3.67 million to advance women in science; GSE awarded $2.1 million grant for math study; Libraries post welcome pages in multiple languages; New director named for Rutgers–Camden MBA program; Rutgers appoints administrator to oversee athletics financial operations; Rutgers Business School’s EMBA ranked number four among public universities
- Q & A: Marianne Gaunt takes the library into the 21st century
- Staff Spotlight: Rabbi Esther Reed
- Rutgers Business School launches Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
- Rutgers counseling program provides help to foster families
- Rutgers pitches in with Verizon Wireless to help domestic violence victims
- Rutgers will partner with Barnes & Noble to open collegiate superstore in New Brunswick
- Three first-year students recount their first weeks on campus
- University updates federal legislators on College Avenue greening
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September 24, 2008
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- Designer Marc Ecko’s Rutgers clothing line pays tribute to his roots
- Donor gives Rutgers $13 million to advance business and professional studies
- Economic crisis 2008: Three faculty perspectives
- Event highlights
- Finding and nurturing a sense of place
- Future Scholars begin long road to college educations
- Hoops for lunch
- Faculty Q&A: Laszlo Zaborszky
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News Briefs: Biologists identify plant genes that could lead to more productive crops; Mice missing 'fear' gene slow to protect offspring; New Institute on Corruption Studies at the School of Criminal Justice; Older problem gamblers may face greater suicide risk than younger counterparts; Rutgers study: People with disabilities represent valuable and underutilized resource
- Rah-Rah and Aha! Gameday Seminars add academic dimension to football weekends
- Rutgers hosts first democratically elected president of Sierra Leone
- Rutgers students discuss a tragedy of war on one of world's largest stages
- Rutgers University breaks ground for largest campus solar energy facility in nation
- White Coat Ceremony for first-year pharmacy students puts emphasis on responsibilities ahead
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September 10, 2008
- A season of new leadership
- An anonymous donor provides global opportunities to junior faculty at School of Arts and Sciences
- At the board
- Camden law student recounts volunteer efforts amid devastation of Chinese earthquake
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News Briefs: Solar farm approved by Board of Governors; Campus Information Services gets new digs; Rutgers earns high praise from Middle States Commission; Rutgers has record-breaking year with more than $121 million in donations; Rutgers' National Labor Scorecard shows concerns, bright spots for American workers; Simon Reich named director of the Division of Global Affairs in Newark; Staff honored for service anniversary; Two Rutgers alumnae notch Olympic gold medals
- Promoting Rutgers’ strengths to the entire nation
- Rutgers commuters try alternative transport to get to campus
- Rutgers enrolls largest, most diverse class of first-year students in 30 years
- Rutgers Upward Bound program offers a taste of college
- Staff Spotlight: Sandra Jenkins
- The bus tour diaries
- The psychoanalysis of a religious terrorist
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May 28, 2008
- At the board
- Awards and recognition
- Commencement 2008: An old-fashioned tradition celebrating future generations
- Faculty honored at recognition luncheon have more than four millennia teaching experience
- Faculty honored for teaching, research, and service
- Jorge Reina Schement named SCILS dean
- Rutgers Class of 2008: Nine graduates going places
- Rutgers Gardens' Farmers Market launches off Route 1
- Rutgers Queens Guard makes a comeback
- Rutgers’ WRSU-FM – 60 years on the air and thriving
- Faculty Q&A: Ziva Galili
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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
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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