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.
Workshops offer help in planning Rutgers Day events
Tuesday, October 21
9 a.m.
Rutgers Student Center
Room 411
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick
ASB II
Community Room A & B
57 US Highway 1
New Brunswick
Wednesday, November 5
1:30 p.m.
Busch Campus Center
604 Bartholomew Road
Piscataway
On April 25, the university will host the first Rutgers Day: Experience New Jersey’s State University. The event expands on the traditions of Ag Field Day and the New Jersey Folk Festival, and will include tours, performances, hands-on activities, demonstrations, exhibits, lectures, and presentations across the Cook, Douglass, Busch, and College Avenue campuses.
All Rutgers departments, units, and student groups are urged to host creative and engaging programs that showcase their teaching, research, and service activities.
To help faculty and staff plan these events, the university is holding workshops on October 21, October 28 and November 5. To register for one of these workshops, visit the University Human Resources Professional Development website and select Rutgers Day from the list of categories.
More information about Rutgers Day and a form for submitting events can be found by going to the Rutgers Day website (rutgersday.rutgers.edu) and clicking on Rutgers Log-in.
If you have questions, please email rutgersday@rutgers.edu .
Hip-hopper with a message
Monday, October 13Rutgers Student Center
Multipurpose Room
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick
Pras Michel, one of the founders of The Fugees – and a former Rutgers student – will be on campus Monday, October 13, to share his vision of social activism.
Michel’s hip-hop group rose to fame in the 1990s with one of the best-selling albums of all time, “The Score.” He will talk about making his 2007 documentary, Skid Row, for which he went underground over a nine-day period to experience what it means to be homeless and hungry. Michel’s day on campus will include a screening of the film, as well as a lecture and panel discussion. Tony MacLachlan of the New Brunswick social services nonprofit group Elijah’s Promise also will participate.
Michel attended the Newark College of Arts and Sciences from September 1990 to June 1992.
For more information, email Matt K. Matsuda, College Avenue Campus dean, at mmatsuda@rci.rutgers.edu.
Homecoming 2008
In Camden, “Hollywood Homecoming 2008” will take place on Saturday, October 11 from noon to 5 p.m. Featured will be an alumni VIP tent, alumni celebrity shuttle tours, Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner, intercollegiate soccer, a free barbecue, and a kids' zone. Two soccer games will be featured: the women's soccer team vs. Susquehanna University at 12:30 p.m. and men's soccer vs. York College at 3 p.m.
For more information, visit the Camden homecoming website.
In New Brunswick, homecoming will run from Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19. Alumni are invited to “Rock the Block” at a kickoff festival and pep rally from 3 to 9 p.m. on Friday, complete with fireworks. The featured football game on Saturday is Rutgers vs. UConn; those without tickets can go to the Game-Watch Party on the Livingston Campus. A homecoming golf outing will take place on Sunday.
Click here for information on the New Brunswick Homecoming.
Writers span the campuses
All three major campuses are alive with the sound of literature as the fall authors’ series continues. Below is a sampling:
Wednesday, October 29
8 p.m.
Rutgers Student Center
126 College Avenue
New Brunswick
Oliver Sacks will deliver the Mason Welch Gross Lecture as part of the Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Sacks burst onto the literary scene in 1985 with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales, a collection of case histories from the world of neurological science. Now, with a new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Sacks will bring his clinical anecdotes to the popular series.
The series continues throughout the semester with an appearance by Caryl Phillips on November 12.
Wednesday, October 22
5:30 p.m.
Paul Robeson Gallery
Paul Robeson Campus Center
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Newark
The Writers at Newark Reading Series will present a reading and discussion by poet Richard McCann and fiction writer Matthew Klam.
Klam, author of Sam The Cat, received an O. Henry Award, a Whiting Writer's Award, and a PEN/Robert Bingham Award, and has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. McCann’s work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Tin House, Ploughshares, and in many anthologies, including Best American Essays 2000. He is the author of Ghost Letters, a book of poems.
The series will continue with poets D. Nurkse and Tracy K. Smith on November 12, author Junot Diaz and poet Cathy Park Hong on December 3.
Wednesday, October 22
7 p.m.
Stedman Gallery
Fine Arts Center
314 Linden Street
Camden
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His chapbook, Uncommon Denominators, won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep …
Wild Plant Walk amongst the colors of fall
Hutcheson Memorial Forest
Franklin Township, Somerset County
Tour one of the last uncut forests in the mid-Atlantic states with Jim Quinn, emeritus professor of plant ecology at Rutgers. The Hutcheson Memorial Forest, administered and protected by the university, is classified as a primeval, mixed oak forest. Also known as Mettler’s Woods, the 525-acre tract occupies pride of place on the National Park Service Register of Natural Landmarks.
Everyone into the garden
Douglass Campus Center
Trayes Hall
100 George Street
New Brunswick
Finding top-rated products from organic gelato to pate, tracing food sources, and helping local farmers are among the topics at “Exploring the Garden in New Jersey,” the 2008 Zagoren Lecture.
The annual event honors Adelaide Marcus Zagoren, a former executive director of the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College and a 1940 graduate of that college.
The speaker at the free event is Karen Irvine, president of Culinary Communications LLC.
For further information, contact the Associate Alumnae at 732-932-2880 or visit the group’s website.
Whose health care plan is … healthier?
Friday, October 10
9 a.m. to noon
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Civic Square Building
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick
The Democrats and the Republicans are touting disparate visions for health care during this heated campaign. “Health Care Reform and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election” will offer an in-depth look at each candidate’s plan with respect to the uninsured, vulnerable populations, cost containment, regulatory issues, and other perspectives.
Scholars from many disciplines will put the various plans under the microscope. The panel includes political and public-health experts from Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. AARP will host a reception afterwards.
For more information, visit policy.rutgers.edu/news/events.php.
Klezmer with a kick
Thursday, October 23John Cotton Dana Library
165 University Avenue
Newark
Members of the Klez Dispensers, an eight-piece band described as “the house band for klezmer’s newest wave,” bring their exuberant sounds to campus for a free concert. Klezmer music harks back to early Jewish wedding music and incorporates the plaintive but joyous strains of the clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, and bass, among other instruments.
The Cultural Programming Committee of Rutgers–Newark and the Office of Communications are cosponsors. For information, click here.
Through the lens of race
Thursday, October 16
4 to 8 p.m.
Center for Law and Justice
Baker Trial Courtroom
123 Washington Street
Newark
Perspectives on Obama, race, and the law will take center stage in these final weeks before the Nov. 4 presidential election. A symposium will discuss Barack Obama’s political ascent and analyze the ways his achievements and mixed heritage affect issues relating to race and the law.
A dinner will follow the program. To RSVP, email racelawreview@gmail.com by October 10. For more information about the symposium, visit the website of Rutgers Race & the Law Review.