Rutgers Day will feature new activities like the World of Work as well as the longstanding Ag Field Day, New Jersey Folk Festival, the Engineering Open House and Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum’s Family Fun Day. Schedules and locations will be available at http://rutgersday.rutgers.edu by April 15. Here are some highlights:
WORLD OF WORK
Busch Campus
Want to tweak your resume or learn what skills are in demand? Visit the World of Work at the Busch Campus Center, where career coaches and employment experts will offer information in a variety of activities:
• Get pointers at “Rev Up Your Resume,” a 30-minute workshop conducted by counselors from Rutgers’ Office of Career Services.
• Discover the six major workforce trends driving New Jersey business and learn whether you have the skills most in demand.
• Learn to “Interview Like a Pro” in a 30-minute workshop that teaches you interview strategies and techniques.
• Visit a career carnival to play “career jeopardy,” learn about green careers or consult with a career coach.
FAMILY DAY AT THE ZIMMERLI
College Avenue Campus
A tradition continues with tours, exhibits, performances and family-friendly activities at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.
• Create a masterpiece with a professional artist; enjoy musical storyteller Richard Stillman’s “Pecos Bill Rides the Oregon Trail”; or join a scavenger hunt for secrets within the galleries.
• Kids can sit for a caricature or have their faces painted.
• Take a VIP tour through galleries of children’s book illustrations and American, Russian, Modernist, and 19th-century European art.
ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE AND ENGINEERING QUAD
Busch Campus
The School of Engineering brings its popular annual open house to Rutgers Day with an added bonus of activities on the Engineering Quad guaranteed to fascinate people of all ages.
• Marvel at stunning 3-D visual illusions, including the famous hollow-mask illusion, and learn how they relate to current brain research.
• Bring your baby and find out how infant memory works.
• Can you see a concealed image, hear a hidden melody or read scrambled sentences? Try an exercise and learn how we recognize objects.
• See how ideas become reality in the world of engineers, from formula race cars to model airplanes.
• See research in action as Rutgers biomedical engineering students and scientists work on new technologies to restore lost motor function.
• Fill the sky with bubbles using bubble machines and wands of all sizes.
• Join the fight against gravity with the Rutgers Juggling Club.
THE NEW JERSEY FOLK FESTIVAL
Douglass Campus
The New Jersey Folk Festival, the oldest continuously run folk festival in New Jersey, joins in with music, food and art. This year, in honor of its 35th anniversary, the festival celebrates many cultures.
• Enjoy every kind of music from folk and bluegrass to R&B and Irish traditionals.
• Carouse with historical re-enactors of the Age of Piracy, 1690-1730.
• Attend workshops, the juried craft market and children's activities area.
• Select from a delicious array of food choices, including vegetarian fare, funnel cakes and a variety of ethnic foods.
• Immerse yourself in tales of the Jersey Devil: Meet director/producer Tom Phillip and investigator Mitch Parker and Jersey Devil hunter/tracker Dave Fanz and watch Phillip’s recent History Channel program on the legendary creature.
AG FIELD DAY
Cook Campus
For decades, Ag Field Day has been an opportunity for the public to learn about and participate in Rutgers' programs on the George H. Cook Campus. As part of Rutgers Day, it builds on that tradition.
• Visit and pet friendly farm animals; tour the barns; review yearling horses; observe live insects, tarantulas, scorpions and spiders; and bet on cockroach races.
• See a vision for a cleaner world from Students for Environmental Awareness. Join in 4-H hands-on activities. Bring in your plants and insect pests for diagnosis by experts.
• Learn about “Boisterous Biochemistry and Marvelous Microbes.”
• Visit the fish biology station for a presentation on the anatomy and life of a shark and learn how the shark is unique among fish.
• Could a cure for the most perplexing human ills be hidden in the plants of Southern Africa? Plant biologist and pathologist Jim Simon will explain his research on new medicines and medicinal plants.
• Watch Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, the award-winning film featuring Rutgers’ discoveries of othe-rworldly hot springs in the deep sea.
Rutgers Day is sponsored in part by the Star-Ledger/nj.com, Magic 98.3/WCTC 1450, PSE&G, and St. Peter's Healthcare System.
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