10 a.m. Ceremonies will be held simultaneously on the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses in honor of the 37 men and women of Rutgers who were killed on Sept. 11. A memorial tree and stone will be dedicated on each campus, and a commemorative proclamation will be read.

New Brunswick/Piscataway:

10 a.m. Rutgers University President Francis L. Lawrence will lead a memorial tree and stone dedication ceremony on the Old Queen's lawn to honor the members of the Rutgers community who were killed Sept. 11. Dick Lloyd, assistant vice president for alumni relations, will read the names of the 37 alumni lost in the attacks as the Old Queen's bell is rung.

This event, and the 7 p.m. event at the College Avenue Gym, will be broadcast on RU-TV Channel 8 and webcast at http://www.rutgers.edu/sept11/webcast.html.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. NJ 101.5's Dennis and Judy radio program will broadcast live from the Red Lion Cafe in the Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue. Rutgers students will participate in the program.

12 noon. New Brunswick remembrance ceremony, in front of the New Brunswick Public Library, Welton and Livingston Avenue, near Monument Square. The Rutgers Band, the color guards of both the Rutgers ROTC and the Rutgers Division of Public Safety, join Mayor Jim Cahill and other dignitaries in participating in the City of New Brunswick's September 11 remembrance ceremony.

12:15 p.m. Wars and Moral Crises: Implications for Psychology. The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) will host an afternoon program centered on the idea that professional psychologists must confront the problems emanating from this national tragedy. The program will feature five-minute presentations by seven members of the GSAPP community, followed by discussion. The program will be held in Room A317 of the Psychology Building, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Busch campus, Piscataway.
Note: Space is limited for this event.

2:00 p.m. Memorial Symposium on the Impact of September 11 and Strategies for Healing. The Committee to Advance our Common Purposes presents a lecture and discussion on the impact of Sept. 11 at the Rutgers Student Center, College Avenue. The program includes remarks by University President Francis L. Lawrence and a keynote address by Michael Hingson, who, along with his guide dog Roselle, escaped from the 78th Floor of the World Trade Center. Rafael Pi-Roman, host of Inside Trenton and New York Voices, will moderate a panel discussion.

7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Rutgers Remembers. A campuswide program sponsored by Rutgers College, Alpha Phi Alpha, and a number of student organizations, in cooperation with Douglass College and University College.

7:00 p.m. - Program in the College Avenue Gym, featuring remarks by a World Trade Center survivor, student leaders, faculty, administrators and others. Members of Rutgers Division of Public Safety who volunteered at the World Trade Center site will be recognized, as well as students who lost parents and the families of alumni lost. The Glee Club and other musical groups will perform.

This event, and the preceeding 10 a.m. event at the Old Queen's Lawn, will be broadcast on RU-TV Channel 8 and webcast at http://www.rutgers.edu/sept11/webcast.html.

8:00 p.m. - Candlelight procession down College Avenue toward the Old Queen's lawn. A Rutgers Division of Public Safety color guard and a bagpiper will lead the marchers.

8:30 p.m. - Marchers assemble on the Old Queen's lawn. Campus Ministries will lead a short ecumenical program, followed by a moment of silence. The Old Queens bell will toll for the men and women of Rutgers lost on Sept. 11.

9:00 p.m. - Concert performance in Kirkpatrick Chapel. Members of the Kirkpatrick Choir, under the direction of Patrick Gardener and accompanied by a professional orchestra, will perform Bach's Cantata 29, which includes a prayer for the protection of buildings and guidance for those who govern. The public will be invited to join the choir in singing Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace).

8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Photographs and biographies of the men and women of Rutgers who lost their lives on Sept. 11 will be on display on the second floor of Winants Hall on the College Avenue Campus.

Photography exhibit: The Empty Sky - The World Trade Center and Memorials by artist Donna Clovis of Princeton Junction will be on display from Sept. 10-Oct. 31 at Rutgers’ Center for Latino Arts and Culture, 122 College Ave. An opening reception will be held from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 10. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, call (732) 932-1263.

Camden:

9 a.m. Interfaith Service of Reflection and Remembrance. Members of the Rutgers-Camden community will participate in a service coordinated by the City of Camden at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Broadway and Market Streets. Following the service, there will be a procession to the Rutgers-Camden Campus.

10 a.m. A campuswide remembrance ceremony will feature a memorial tree and stone dedication, with relections by Provost Roger Dennis, faculty and students on the Camden Campus Quad.

10:30 a.m. A Consideration of Our Nation's Response: Reconciliation and Service. A panel discussion by Rutgers faculty in the Gordon Theater on our response as individuals governed by law and the pathways to reconciliation, touching on issues of community service and the loss of our innocence. The program will also include a presentation of colors and the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, poetry and reflective remarks.

12 noon "Victims of Terrorism Memorial," a sculpture created for the Camden County Board of Freeholders by John Giannotti, professor emeritus of fine arts, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, will be dedicated during a public ceremony at Cooper River Park, North Park Drive, Pennsauken.

Newark:

10 a.m. A campuswide remembrance ceremony will feature a memorial tree and stone dedication and remarks by acting Provost Steven J. Diner, students and faculty on the Norman Samuels Campus Plaza.

Noon. The Newman Ministries (Newman Center) will hold a memorial Mass in the Paul Robeson Student Center that will be open to the campus communities of Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

2:30 p.m. Unified campus gathering organized by student groups. The program will feature a welcome by the Provost, student remarks, a presentation honoring fire fighters, police and Port Authority workers and the singing of Let There Be Peace on Earth and the national anthem. The program concludes with the release of doves of peace.

7 p.m. Candlelight vigil coordinated by the Office of Residence Life, on the lawn between Woodward Hall and the Talbott Apartments on Bleeker Street.

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Mark Maben Assistant Director, Special Projects and Executive Support Rutgers Media Relations Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 101 Somerset St. New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Phone: (732) 932-7084 extension 604 E-mail: mmaben@ur.rutgers.edu