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Rock from outer space on display for first time
Come see the Freehold Township Meteorite at the annual Rutgers Geology Museum Open House, Saturday, January 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On public display for the first time, the piece of space debris gained worldwide attention earlier this month when it landed in Freehold Township January 2, piercing a homeowner’s roof and embedding itself in a sheet of wallboard. Rutgers geologists helped township police and the homeowner identify the golf-ball-sized, 13-ounce object as a metal-rich meteorite, possibly from the deep interior of a broken-up asteroid. It is the second meteorite known to have landed in the state, the first being in Deal in 1829.
The Rutgers Geology Museum open house was started in 1968 as part of the museum's efforts to make the earth sciences accessible to students, scholars and the public. Activities include general-interest talks on research in climate change, ocean science and astronomy, as well as a mineral sale and rock and mineral identification program. Participants may bring their own samples for professional examination.
2007 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series examines 'Time Longer Than Rope: Historical Memory and the Black Atlantic'
These and other questions about historical memory will be explored February 17 during Time Longer Than Rope: Historical Memory and the Black Atlantic, the 27th Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series.
The free public program will be held in the Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers-Newark, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The campus center is at 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Since 1981, the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series has drawn thousands of people to the Rutgers-Newark campus in observance of Black History Month. Named in honor of Dr. Marion Thompson Wright, a pioneer in African-American historiography and the study of race relations in New Jersey, the conference has focused on themes deemed particularly relevant for understanding the African experience throughout the Diaspora. The program is sponsored by the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience; the Federated Department of History, Rutgers-Newark and the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State.
For additional information about the program, visit the website of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, or contact Marisa Pierson at 973-353-1871, ext. 11, or mpierson@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Extensive dictionary collection on exhibit at Alexander Library
Starting in February the Rutgers University Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of a historic dictionary collection with the exhibition Everything from A to Z: The Edward J. Bloustein Dictionary Collection.
Edward J. Bloustein, Rutgers’ 17th president, was an avid and informed collector of dictionaries. While focusing on general English-language dictionaries, he also collected more specialized works such as compendia of slang; dictionaries of biography; and dictionaries of synonyms, the ancestors of today’s thesauri. In 2004, his daughters Elise and Lori Bloustein donated his collection to the Rutgers University Libraries. The collection includes over 170 titles, dating from Thomas Cooper’s Thesaurus Linguae Romane et Britannicae (1573) to the controversial Webster’s Third International (1961).
The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, February 6, beginning at 5 p.m., in the Scholarly Communication Center on the fourth floor of the Alexander Library in New Brunswick. The exhibition will be on display from February 6 through June 29 in Gallery ‘50 and the Special Collections and University Archives Gallery on the first floor and lower level of the Archibald S. Alexander Library at 169 College Ave. in New Brunswick. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. during the academic year.
To RSVP to the opening reception please contact events@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-7505. For more information about the exhibition, please contact curator Fernanda Perrone at hperrone@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-7006, x363.
Teach for America founder kicks off “Breaking Barriers” series
Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America, who will kick off the series’ spring schedule January 30 at 8 p.m., promises to inspire soon-to-be college graduates to do their part in eliminating education inequity in the country. The free lecture, to take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Busch Campus Center in Piscataway, will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The event is open to the general public. In addition to Kopp’s discussion, four Rutgers alumni will talk about their experiences as Teach for America corps members. For more information, click here.
