Events
Commencement 2007 at a glance
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.




