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Ag Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Festival: 90 years of outdoor fun

Saturday, April 26
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

George H. Cook Campus
New Brunswick

Rutgers invites you to the 90th annual Ag Field Day, a celebration of our community spirit and of the close ties enjoyed by students, faculty, staff, alumni, volunteers, and New Jersey residents. For more than a century, Ag Field Day has been an opportunity for members of the public to learn about and participate in Rutgers’ programs. Bring your family and friends, and enjoy:

• Tours of the Rutgers Gardens and Helyar Woods
• Animal shows, petting zoo, and the NJ 4-H Dog Show
• Flower and plant sales
• Face painting, clowns, magicians, cockroach races, and tree climbing
• Arts and craft sales
• Department, center, and institute open houses

Visitors to Ag Field Day also may attend the New Jersey Folk Festival, which is held on the lawns of the Rutgers Eagleton Institute on the adjacent Douglass Campus. The festival features music, craft demonstrations, talks, ethnic foods, and a children’s area. This year’s focus is German music, food, and culture.

Visit the Ag Field Day website for more information.

Best-selling author of Chocalat comes to Camden April 25

Friday, April 25
12:15 p.m.

Gordon Theater
Fine Arts Complex
314 Linden Street
Camden

Joanne Harris, author of the best-selling book Chocolat and its recently released sequel The Girl with No Shadow, will offer a free public lecture on how research impacts her writing process.

Harris’s visit will conclude a Rutgers–Camden first-year composition program that included reading both Chocolat and The Girl with No Shadow, a chocolate festival where students created their own confectionery displays, and a visit from Robert Nelson Jacobs, screenwriter of the film adaptation of Chocolat. A student symposium that features presentations on students’ own original research will follow Harris’s talk and book signing.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power to deliver 2008 Susan and Michael J. Angelides lecture

Wednesday, May 7
8 p.m.

Busch Campus Center
604 Bartholomew Road
Piscataway

Samantha Power, a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will deliver this year’s Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture as part of the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

Power’s new book is Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira deMello and the Fight to Save the World (Penguin Press, 2008), a biography of the United Nations envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003. Her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (New Republic Books) was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

The annual Susan and Michael J. Angelides Lecture at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers is an endowed series featuring pathbreaking women leaders from many areas of achievement.

Baltimore Mayor is 2008 Senator Wynona Lipman Chair

Wednesday, April 30
Reception at 6 p.m.
Program at 7 p.m.

Eagleton Institute of Politics
Wood Lawn
191 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick

This year’s Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership is Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, the first woman and first African-American woman to lead the nation’s 20th largest city. Joining her in a discussion, “What’s on the Urban Agenda for the Next President,” will be Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University.

Mayor Dixon served on the Baltimore City Council for 12 years. She has been an international trade specialist with the Maryland State Department of Business and Economic Development. Among her honors, Dixon has been named one of Baltimore’s Most Influential Leaders by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Professor Harris-Lacewell is the author of an award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. She is at work on a new book, For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Wasn't Enough. Her academic research investigates the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and the multiple creative ways that they respond to these challenges.

The Lipman Chair was created to honor the legacy of the late state senator, the first African-American woman in the New Jersey Legislature. It passed the state Legislature unanimously in 2000 when Gov. Christine Todd Whitman signed legislation that was sponsored by legislative leaders in both parties. The Legislature generously continues its support for the chair, which celebrates Lipman’s achievements and encourages others to follow in her footsteps.

Swing into spring at Rutgers University Golf Course

Sunday, May 25
Noon

Rutgers University Golf Course
777 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway

The Swing into Spring Faculty/Staff Golf Scramble will take place at the Rutgers University Golf Course. Tee times start at noon. The $26 per person entry fee includes greens fee, range balls, on-course events, a raffle, and team prizes.

The Rutgers University Golf Course, open to the public, offers a practice and teaching range that is open daily from 6:30 a.m. weekdays and 5:30 a.m. on weekends until one hour before sunset. Tokens for range balls are $4 each and can be purchased in the full service pro shop.

To sign-up for the golf scramble, or for information about lessons and equipment or other golf-related questions, call the pro shop at 732-445-2637.