Rutgers-Newark will mark its 60th anniversary by expanding its presence in the city with the addition of a major academic building and its first new residential housing in nearly 20 years.
The Life Sciences Center and the 13-story University Square residence hall are modern facilities, a sharp contrast to the original campus that was dispersed throughout the city, where classes were once held in a converted beer brewery, a former razor blade factory, old stables, and brownstone residences.
University Square will be dedicated in public ceremonies Wednesday, September 27, at 1 p.m.; an official opening ceremony for the new science facility will be held early in spring 2007.
In 1946, the University of Newark – along with the Rutgers College of Pharmacy in Newark – became part of Rutgers. But the Newark campus’s roots date back nearly 100 years, to 1908, when the New Jersey Law School opened its doors. The city also became home to the Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Mercer Beasley Law School, Dana College and the Seth Boyden School of Business. By 1936, all of these schools had merged to form the University of Newark.