Address
President to offer fourth Annual Address to the University Community
All Rutgers staff, faculty, students and alumni are invited to attend the September 15 event taking place at the Rutgers Student Center.
Books
Searching for the genesis of genocide
To many people, including Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, it seems illogical to apply logic to a human behavior as heinous as genocide.
Essay
Remembering 9/11, five years later
Greg Trevor, senior director of Rutgers Media Relations, recounts his escape from the World Trade Center minutes before the North Tower collapsed on September 11, 2001.
Events
New Jersey Film Festival Fall 2006
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the festival, presented by the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center.
More campus happenings
Doris Kearns Goodwin leads off Eagleton anniversary speaker series, information on Homecomings 2006, and more.
Honors
Harry Janes, founding director of EcoComplex, honored
Janes was key in establishing the high-tech research center in Burlington County.
Staff service awards
Rutgers employees who have reached milestones in their careers at the university – 10, 20, 30 and 40 years – were honored at a luncheon this summer.
News
Board approves endowed chair in neuroscience
The Board of Governors also created a new School of Public Affairs and Administration in Newark and established new clinical faculty positions at four Rutgers schools.
New appointments
New deans at four schools; the first vice president for enrollment management; appointments at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and NJAES.
The impact of the state budget
This summer, the Rutgers Board of Governors approved a budget that includes $50 million in cuts, affecting virtually all academic and administrative operations at the university.
New faculty tour New Jersey to understand its texture
Each year in late May, a group of new faculty members, led by President Richard L. McCormick, take a bus across the state to get a five-day crash course in New Jersey’s history, economics, culture and government.
Obituaries
To-Thi Bosacchi; Harold R. Scott Jr.; Scott Cagenello
On Campus
Taking vows at Rutgers’ Kirkpatrick Chapel
When President Richard L. McCormick and Joan C. Barry were married July 22 in the Kirkpatrick Chapel, the couple followed a storied Rutgers tradition. Kirkpatrick weddings began in the late 1940s at the rate of two or three per year, increasing to 114 last year.
New CD spotlights the life and music of Benjamin Franklin
Thanks to a Rutgers-Camden music professor, Benjamin Franklin enthusiasts can now revel in the “Music in the Life of Benjamin Franklin,” a CD and music book showcasing the range of compositions enjoyed by the famous Philadelphian.
Newark marks anniversary with opening of modern residential, research buildings
Rutgers-Newark will mark its 60th anniversary by expanding its presence in the city.
Staff Spotlight
Craig Ritz
Craig Ritz, aquatics director of the Golden Dome Athletic Center on the Newark campus, got the Sonny Werblin pool in Piscataway up and running. A few years later, he opened up Newark’s pool. He has spent his life keeping swimmers and boaters safe – and passing on his wisdom.
Update
Undergraduate education: Admissions and recruitment
With the Board of Governors’ approval of recommendations for reinvigorating the undergraduate experience at Rutgers-New Brunswick/ Piscataway, the process of implementing those recommendations is now under way. Focus will examine in an ongoing series of articles various aspects of the undergraduate transformation process.
Briefs
News Briefs
New officers elected to board of trustees; Rutgers center receives $3 million to ferret out terrorist activity; National Marriage Project finds life without children is a growing social reality; and more.
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