Events
Event Highlights
These are just a few of the upcoming events on Rutgers' campuses. For more events, view the universitywide calendar. To add an event, click here. You will need a Rutgers NetID and password to add an event.
Opera at Rutgers presents three-course French dinner and performance
Friday, February 1,
2008
5 p.m.
University
Inn and Conference Center
178 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick
Nicholas
Music Center
85 George
Street
New Brunswick
Opening night patrons of Opera at Rutgers’ Les Contes d’Hoffmann can savor French
wine, live piano music, and brasserie fare before ambling over to Nicholas Music Center
in time for curtain.
The event begins with wine and a three-course served dinner at the University Inn and Conference Center on Rutgers’ Douglass Campus. It continues with an 8 p.m. curtain a short walk away, at Nicholas Music Center. The entire dinner-and-opera package costs just $75 per ticket for the general public, and discounts are available for alumni, employees, seniors, students, and groups.
Tickets to the performance only are available for $25 for
the general public; $20 for Rutgers employees,
alumni, and senior citizens; and $15 for students with ID. Performances are
Fridays, February 1 and 8 at 8 p.m. and Sundays, February 3 and 10 at 2 p.m.
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
(The Tales of Hoffmann) is a fantastic opera by Jacques Offenbach, with a
libretto by Jules Barbier, based on three tales by the German author E.T.A.
Hoffman. Produced by Pamela Gilmore and conducted by Adrian Bryttan, Les Contes d’Hoffmann will be performed
in French with English supertitles.
To purchase the package, call the Mason Gross Performing
Arts Center ticket office no later than January
25 at 732-932-7511. Discount packages including overnight stay are also
available through the University Inn and Conference Center.
RU Voting in 2008? Meet representatives from the top presidential campaigns
Monday, January 28,
2008
7 p.m.
Douglass
College Center
Trayes Hall
100 George
Street
New Brunswick
Attend a bipartisan panel of representatives from the campaigns of the top presidential candidates in the 2008 election. Refreshments will be served.
This event is supported by Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Cosponsors are NJPIRG Student Chapters, the Douglass Governing Council, Institute for Domestic and International Affairs, Rutgers University Debate Union, Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Society, Rutgers Academic Union, Rutgers University Democrats, Rutgers College Republicans, and the Department of Political Science.
RSVP to eagleton.events@rutgers.edu
or 732-932-9384, ext. 331. For more information on voting, visit ruvoting.rutgers.edu.
2008 Celebration of
Women Artists of South Asia
Tuesday, January 15
through Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday through
Thursday 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Weekends by
appointment
Mabel
Smith Douglass Library Galleries
8 Chapel Drive
New Brunswick
“Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture” is an exhibition of contemporary Indian art that challenges social oppression and gender discrimination, and provides new models for the empowerment of women. It features provocative painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video art that respond to ongoing patriarchal aggression and communal violence in India.
Rutgers University seminar series on raw milk
Wednesday, February 6
and Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2 and 7 p.m.
(February 6)
1 p.m. (February 20)
Foran
Hall
Room 138 B
59 Dudley Road
New Brunswick
Cook
Campus Center
Multipurpose Room
59 Biel Road
New Brunswick
Institute
of Marine and Coastal Sciences
71 Dudley Road
New Brunswick
The Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station is sponsoring a seminar series to help provide policymakers and the public with science-based information about raw milk.
- “Raw Milk, Mother
Nature’s Inconvenient Truth,” will be held on February 6. The speaker is
organic dairy farmer Mark McAfee. The seminar will be repeated at two
locations on the George H. Cook Campus: in Foran Hall room 138B at 2 to
4:30 p.m. and then in the Cook Student
Center, Multipurpose Room, at
7 p.m.
- “Raw Milk Wars, Government’s Attempt to Dictate What Foods We Can Consume,” is scheduled for February 20. The speaker is attorney David G. Cox. He will speak on the George H. Cook Campus at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences building at 1 p.m.
- “Raw Milk, A Microbiology Primer,” is scheduled for April 3. The speaker is Dr. Mark Gebhart, M.D., Wright State University. He will speak at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences building at 1 pm.
Additional seminars, which will feature speakers on both
sides of the debate, will be announced soon.
Rutgers’ Geology Museum holds annual open house
Saturday, January 26,
2008
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Geology
Hall
85 Somerset
Street
New Brunswick
Scott
Hall
43 College
Avenue
New Brunswick
- Sampling the sea floor: What we know and how we know it. Gregory Mountain, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers. 10 a.m.
- The Dawn
Mission: Exploring the asteroids Ceres and Vesta. Harry McSween, professor
of earth and planetary sciences at the University of Tennessee.
11 a.m.
- Climate,
energy and our future. Paul Falkowski, Board of Governors professor of geological
and marine sciences at Rutgers. 2 p.m.
- The first three billion years of evolution on the Earth. Andrew Knoll, professor of natural history at Harvard University. 3 p.m.
For the first time this year, members of the 4-H Club of Flanders, New Jersey, will offer presentations tailored to younger children on astronomy and on Native American culture.