IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND PISCATAWAY

EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY

Sunday, May 13

1 p.m.

142 graduate degrees (75 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)

Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., Douglass Campus, New Brunswick

Speaker: Gov. Jim Florio, senior policy fellow, Bloustein School. Rutgers School of Law-Camden (1967), honorary degree recipient (1990), member, Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (1995).

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS

Monday, May 14

7 p.m.

110 graduate degrees (106 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)

Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick

Speakers: Members of the Class of 2007, with their programs – Tojo Eapen, Master of Human Resource Management; Marien Casillas-Pabellon, Master of Labor and Employment Relations; Debbie L. Hines, Bachelor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations; and William M. Dwyer, industrial relations manager, PSEG Services Corp., Newark, and SMLR Alumni Association.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

Monday, May 14

7 p.m.

305 master’s degrees

Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

Speaker: Clement Alexander Price, Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History and founding director, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, Rutgers-Newark. Member, Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (2006), Graduate School-New Brunswick (1975).

RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL–NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK

Tuesday, May 15

2 p.m.

330 undergraduate joint degrees (recipients are also counted in their college totals)

Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

Speaker: Brian Neer, managing director and regional head of Morgan Stanley’s Structured Credit Products team in North America, Asia Pacific and Japan. RBS (1994).

MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Tuesday, May 15

2:30 p.m.

131 graduating seniors, 65 graduate degrees

Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., Douglass Campus, New Brunswick

Speaker: Adam K. Levin, consumer rights advocate. Chair and co-founder, Identity Theft 911 LLC, and president and CEO, Credit.com Inc. Former director, New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. President, Philip and Janice Levin Foundation. Rutgers benefactor.

ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY

Tuesday, May 15

3 p.m.

6 Air Force and 11 Army second lieutenants to be commissioned

Location: Busch Campus Center Multipurpose Room, 604 Bartholomew Road, Piscataway

Speaker: Retired Brig. Gen. Bruce. B. Bingham, U.S. Army. Executive director, Capstone Valuation LLC, New York. Rutgers College (1968).

SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES

Tuesday, May 15

5 p.m.

127 graduate degrees (620 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals)

Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick

Speaker: Leslie Burger, president, American Library Association; director, Princeton Public Library; and founder, Library Development Solutions, a consulting firm.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Thursday, May 17

9 a.m.

298 graduates (280 master’s, 18 doctorates)

Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick

Speaker: Andrés Henríquez, program officer, Education Division, Carnegie Corp., New York.

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Thursday, May 17

9:30 a.m.

407 graduates

Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

Speaker: Mir Imran, founder and chair of InCube Laboratories Inc., research laboratories and business incubator for medical and technology companies, Menlo Park, Calif. Rutgers College of Engineering (now SOE, 1977), and Graduate School-New Brunswick.

DOUGLASS COLLEGE

Thursday, May 17

10 a.m.

607 graduates

Location: Antilles Field, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick

Speaker: Maggie M. Moran, deputy chief of staff, Office of Gov. Jon S. Corzine. Member, Rutgers Board of Trustees. Douglass College (1996).

Rain: Same day, 5 p.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

 

RUTGERS COLLEGE

Thursday, May 17

1:15 p.m.

2,137 graduates

Location: Voorhees Mall, College Avenue, New Brunswick

Speaker: Philip S. Schein, M.D., cancer researcher. Member, Board of Overseers, Rutgers University Foundation and former member, Rutgers Board of Trustees. Member, Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (2005) and recipient of honorary Doctor of Science degree (2006). Rutgers College (1961).

Rain: Friday, May 18, 1:15 p.m., Voorhees Mall (if rain, 3:15 p.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway)

LIVINGSTON COLLEGE

Thursday, May 17

1:30 p.m.

845 graduates

Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

Speaker: Arnold G. Hyndman, outgoing dean, Livingston College.

ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

Friday, May 18

9:30 a.m.

195 Pharm.D. degrees

Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick

Speaker: Ernest Mario, pharmaceutical executive – chair, Reliant Pharmaceuticals LLC, Liberty Corner. Former member, Rutgers University Foundation Board of Overseers and Rutgers Board of Trustees. Namesake, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy (EMSP). Honorary Doctor of Science (1992), Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (1998). College of Pharmacy (now, EMSP, 1961).

COOK COLLEGE

Friday, May 18

10 a.m.

528 graduates

Location: Lawn near College Pond (“Passion Puddle”), Cook Campus, New Brunswick

Speaker: Peter M. Sandman, risk communication consultant, Princeton. Founding director, Environmental Communication Research Program (later, the Center for Environmental Communication) at Rutgers from 1986 to 1992; professor, 1977-1994.

Rain: Same day, 11 a.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE–NEW BRUNSWICK

Saturday, May 19

10 a.m.

761 graduates

Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston Campus, Piscataway

Speaker: Robert Harper, actor. Rutgers College.