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The Sexual Assault Services and Crime Victim Assistance department is committed to creating a community free from violence. Through the department, services are designed to raise awareness of and respond to the impact of interpersonal violence and other crimes. The Sexual Assault Services and Crime Victim Assistance offers direct service, education, training, policy development, and consulting to the University and broader community. |
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During the last year of his life, William Neal Brown, a longtime professor of human growth and development at Rutgers, spent part of each day doing what he had done –and taught hundreds of other people to do – for half a century. He observed people and noted how they interacted with their environment. He noticed problems with those interactions and came up with ways to solve or at least manage those problems. Read more |
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Charles R. Keeton II, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the School of Arts and Sciences, along with two other Rutgers University professors, has been recognized by the White House as outstanding early career researchers, the highest honor that a beginning scientist or engineer can receive in the United States. Keeton and Rutgers professors Jimmy de la Torre and Hao Lin are among 20 young researchers nominated by their funding agency, the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
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The National Humanities Center recently announced the appointment of two Rutgers professors for the academic year 2009-10. Mia Elisabeth Bay, prpofessor of history, and Ruth Elizabeth Chang, professor of philosophy, are among leading scholars who come from the faculties of 23 colleges and universities in the United States and four institutions in Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, and The United Kingdom. Bay and Chang were chosen from 475 applicants. |
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In the School of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate and graduate students have the extraordinary opportunity to study and work with world-class professors recognized for their outstanding teaching and research. Read more about a few examples of faculty from across the disciplines whose scholarship has brought them recent honors and national recognition. | |
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The Rutgers Visitor Center, a 12,000-square- foot facility on Sutphen Road near Rutgers Stadium on the Busch Campus, will open this month, with a series of tours for the public. The center is a gateway to Rutgers for anyone who would like to learn more about the state university. Read more |
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Rutgers officially opened a new Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program, and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Building on the College Avenue Campus Monday, Sept. 14, bringing a range of mental health services for students under one roof in a central location. Read more | |
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When Rutgers Business School students arrive for classes this fall, they are in for a treat: a brand new state-of-the-art building and headquarters at 1 Washington Park in Newark, located just a few blocks north of the school’s previous location. The new location will be supported by shuttle transportation to easily get around the expanded Newark campus. Customized public safety initiatives, new food options, and advanced technology provided for the benefit of the RBS community will help make this move an exciting transition for RBS. |
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The 7 acre 1.5 MW solar farm is located on Livingston Campus and began generating electricity on June 1. It is the largest solar energy project in the state. As of Sept. 15, the solar farm has generated 590,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. More than 7,000 solar panels about four-feet high will reduce the university's carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,216 tons per year (saving more than 2900 barrels of oil or 660 tons of coal or removing 155 vehicles from the road) and will offset the need to purchase power from PSE&G or draw on the capacity of the university's gas and oil-fired cogeneration plant. | |
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Students in a new Rutgers course, “Conflicts in the Caucasus: Ethnic Separatist Movements in Comparative Perspective,” will be doing more than learning of frictions and animosities that divide brothers in often deadly disputes – although that’s a key component. They also will be celebrating the life of a young man killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, a man whose grieving mother hopes the course this semester will be a healthy first step in addressing the type of bitter animosity that led to Peter Edward Mardikian’s murder. Read more |
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Effective July 1, the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies changed its name to the School of Communication and Information. The Rutgers University Board of Governors approved the change last semester, charting the way for our school to meet the challenges of the future – challenges to which communication and information are central. |
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President Richard L. McCormick has announced the appointment of the distinguished attorney and former state attorney general John J. Farmer Jr., of Flemington, New Jersey, as dean of Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Stuart L. Deutsch, of South Orange, New Jersey, who has served as dean of the law school since 1999, will return to the faculty as University Professor of Law. Read more |
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President McCormick will deliver the Annual Address as part of the Rutgers University Senate’s first meeting of the academic year. All are welcome to attend. A question-and-answer period and reception will follow. Ample parking is available. The address will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Rutgers Student Center on Friday, Sept. 25 beginning at 1:10 p.m. For those who can't attend the event, a live webcast will be available. |
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President Richard L. McCormick has announced the appointment of Dr. William L. Holzemer as dean of Rutgers College of Nursing. “Rutgers is extremely pleased to welcome Bill Holzemer, a scholar of great distinction in biomedical research and international education, to the College of Nursing at this exciting juncture in its long history of service to the health care profession,” stated President McCormick. Read more |
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Rutgers is launching the planning process for a comprehensive School of Nursing at the Rutgers–Camden Campus, Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick announced. When the plans are complete later this fall, the proposal to establish the Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden will be brought before the Rutgers Board of Governors, the New Jersey Presidents Council, and the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. Rutgers–Camden currently offers an upper-division nursing major through the Department of Nursing within the College of Arts and Sciences. Read more |
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Media Contact: Nicole Pride
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E-mail: npride@ur.rutgers.edu