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The Rutgers University Athletic Department held its fourth annual Knight of Networking on Sunday, Nov. 15 in the club lounge on the third floor of the Hale Center.

Gregory Raffaelli, age 44, of Midland Park, died November 13, 2009. Raffaelli received his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University where he played football, earned three varsity letters and met his wife Lisa.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Daisha Simmons has a signed a National Letter of Intent to compete for the Rutgers University women's basketball program beginning in the fall of 2010, Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer has announced.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The Rutgers University Men's Basketball Program held its annual media day Wednesday. Coaches and players met with print and electronic media on the RAC balcony to preview the 2009-10 hardwood edition of the Scarlet Knights.

In celebration of its first three decades, the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, Newark, is presenting a three-part celebration beginning Nov. 18, 2009, including the opening of its 30th anniversary exhibition, “The Exquisite Corpse,” featuring 30 collaborative works...

Rutgers President McCormick hosted the official opening of the university’s seven-acre solar energy facility, one of the largest renewable energy systems on a single campus in the United States.

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CAMDEN – Contrary to a national trend, more and more students at Rutgers University—Camden are signing up to major in math and science. Thanks to a $307,277 grant from the National Science Foundation, these (and future) students in the sciences at Rutgers–Camden will receive unprecede...

Jayne Anne Phillips, professor of English and founder and program director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University in Newark, continues to receive accolades for her fourth novel. Lark & Termite has been selected as one of five finalists for the Na...

The Rutgers women's golf team is in third place with a 316 score after the opening round of the Rutgers Invitational, played Friday at the Rutgers University Golf Course.

The RU women's golf team will host the Rutgers Invitational this Friday and Saturday, October 9-10, at the Rutgers University Golf Course. Eighteen colleges are competing in the annual event.

Rutgers University and two collaborators have received a $3.4 million research grant to develop tools aimed at improving the identification of prostate cancer using MRI. The five-year grant, with funding in the first two years from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - The RU men's golf team will host the Rutgers Invitational this Friday and Saturday, September 11-12, at the Rutgers University Golf Course. Thirteen teams are competing in the annual event.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 million to fund graduate research in clean and sustainable energy resources using biotechnology and nanotechnology. The foundation also has awarded the university up to $1.25 million to extend...

Thanks to Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman, the sacrifice and suffering of one group of World War II soldiers is being remembered and revered as never before. The husband and wife team are both alumni of Rutgers University in Newark, Michael a 1972 graduate of the Newark College of Arts &...

A new neuropsychological memory test developed by Dr. Mark Gluck, professor of neuroscience at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, Newark, and co-researchers at Rutgers, New York University, and in Hungary, is helping to uncover how Parkin...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers University junior guard Mike Coburn (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) will compete for the Jamaican National Basketball Team. Coburn, who is of Jamaican parentage, was named to the team this past Saturday in Kingston, when the Jamaican Basketball Association launched its ‘T...

Scott Glenn, marine science professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, recently met with the pupils and showed off the glider created by his ... and more »

The best advice for travelers, according to Rutgers University spokesman Steve Manas, is to "just stay way from downtown New Brunswick. ... Fashion designer Marc Ecko to kick off Rutgers graduations this weekScarlet Scuttlebutt all 4 news articles »

 NJ - Leo D. Rommel The city's club is run by volunteer adults, parents and several Rutgers University students, said Bovitz. Enrique Noguera, a 23-year-old senior at Rutgers majoring in urban planning, is the president of the Rutgers' New Brunswick 4-H team. ...

Rutgers University has appointed Thomas Farris, currently head of Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as dean of the Rutgers School of Engineering. He brings 23 years of academic experience in Purdue’s College of Engineering, one of the nation’s top engineer...

 NJ By RICK MALWITZ • Staff Writer • April 17, 2009 RUTGERS — Unions representing about 7000 staff and faculty at Rutgers University plan to lobby President Richard L. McCormick and lawmakers in Trenton in an attempt to salvage jobs, and allow the ...

 NJ Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, hopes to put a spring in your step with its semiannual show, DancePlus Spring, this weekend. The show created by the Rutgers dance faculty, students and guest choreographers, ...

By klkeough@gmail.com Dr. Kevin Keough, host of the Warrior Traditions podcast, interviews Detective-Commander Joseph Petrocelli co-author of No One Trips Over A Mountain  by Detective-Commander Joseph Petrocelli and  Prof Matthew Petrocelli, PhD published by Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc.

By deborah@psychjourney.com Helen E. Fisher, PhD biological anthropologist is a Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Dr. Fisher is one of the worldâs leading experts on the nature of romantic love and attachment and is the chief scientific adviser to Chemistry.com, a division o...

Neuroscientist Dr. Mariano Belluscio of Rutgers University in Newark is one of 10 Pew Latin American Fellows in Biomedical Sciences awarded by the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2008. Also receiving honors is Rutgers neuroscience doctoral student Katharine Seip who was one of 21 women to rece...

By Libby Sander Earlier this month, the newspaper reported, Rutgers hired Richard J. Costello, a former athletics director at Delaware State University, for a new post that will directly oversee the athletics department’s day-to-day administrative and budget operations. But in announcing the new o...

By deborah@psychjourney.com Stacey Patton is currently pursuing her PhD in history at Rutgers University and works full time as a writer for the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund. She has written for the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, and Scholastic magazine and is the recipient of numerou...

By Lynn Cicero She is a member of the American Dietetic Association. In the past, she has served on the Executive Board of the New Jersey Dietetic Association, and is a long-standing member of the Board of Consulting Nutritionists of New Jersey. She has recently received designation as a G.R.E.A.T. Dietitian...

By deborah@psychjourney.com Funderburg's first book, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, was a collection of oral histories. Funderburg won a 2003 Nonfiction Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has twice been selected as the writer-in-residence at The Jame...

But this is good -- I hope a lot of people read this. What did that have to do with Jewish students being expelled by Mussolini, I don't know, because I didn't talk about Jewish students being expelled by Mussolini. That's their insanity.

By deborah@psychjourney.com Dr. Taylor is the author of In The Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification as well as a number of articles and book chapters. In 2002-2003 she won a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Visit her webpage.

WAPSHOTT: There's no doubt she's jumping on the bandwagon. Although the invitation was long-standing, that she took up on Monday and as you say it was delayed. But I would -- you know what I hope that she does say to them is that these are good African-American women and some that are not Africa...

By Dan Rutgers University last night rescinded its scholarship offer to Reggie Dixon, the Plainfield High School football star whose record-breaking speed made him one of the state's most sought recruits. The victim's mother said her final contact with a Rutgers administrator was with Jaso...

By Judy Now that most of the nation knows that MSNBC has gotten rid of Don Imus for his racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University basketball team, it's time to get down to the next order of business -- finding a replacement for Imus on the cable news channel. My schedule is full or I'd volu...

From the 3 p.m. ET hour of the April 13 edition of MSNBC News Live: RICHARD GOODSTEIN (Democratic strategist): Well, she'd had an invitation from Rutgers to speak there for several months. WATKINS: Like she's hugging the -- she's grabbing for dear life onto the issue of the Rutgers women?

By Jen Chung Roundups: The Wall Street Journal had an excellent article looking at the anatomy of the growing scandal, from broadcast last Wednesday to yesterday's firing (apparently Bo Dietl tried to lobby on Imus's behalf). The NY Times' David Carr has a good rundown of the different factors in Imu...

By Daryl D I don’t have much use for Don Imus. In fact, he looks like a zombie, talks like goat, and his attempts at humor fail more then they succeed. But the backlash he’s received from referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hoes" is not only hypocritical, it’s d...

By Mark Edward Manning And speaking of black people: I would have to agree that what Don Imus recently said about the Rutgers University women's basketball team was really thoughtless if not disgusting. But let's not pretend that Imus is going away. His show is worth too much money and nastiness sells. Imus is too g...

We reach this decision after a period of thought, discussion, listening to you, and the pursuit of due process in this painful matter. From the outset, I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air about the young women who represented Rut...

By Matthew Milam Essbee of Objectionable Material questions why the team would want to meet Don Imus for the private conference they are holding with him (the date has yet to be determined) and that he cite the meeting with the Rutgers University team as a “hard-won friendship with the 12 Rutgers women and...

In the wake of MSNBC's decision to drop its simulcast of the Imus in the Morning radio show, Media Matters for America has prepared the following timeline documenting events from Imus' slur of the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" on April 4 to MSNBC's ann...

As Media Matters for America has noted, Imus now disputes that account of his alleged comments about Ifill. However, a May 26, 2000, Washington Post article reported that "sometime around 1995, when the New York Times hired black journalist Gwen Ifill to cover the White House, Imus repor...

By Jen Chung Rutgers president Richard McCormick said, "Mr. Imus' comments were offensive to the Rutgers University community, as well as the entire nation. In this difficult time, we must make an increased commitment to tolerance, civility and equality," while the team coach, C. Vivian Stringer ga...

We ask that you not recognize us in a light as dimly lit as this," said Essence Carson, a junior at Rutgers University and captain of the Rutgers women's basketball team insulted by Don Imus. She spoke at a press conference today where the team announced that the women and their families have...

By Dan These young ladies before you are valedictorians, future doctors, musical prodigies, and yes, even Girl Scouts," said Stringer. "These young ladies are the best this nation has to offer and we are so very fortunate to have them here at Rutgers University."

NEW YORK (AP) -- After being criticized for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, radio host Don Imus said Monday that he's a good person who said a bad thing and will check his acid tongue. "Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of e...

By jordden That particular evening, the discussion topic was whether the notion of race/racism could ever be completely eradicated in American society (because I'm sure most of you out there know 'race' IS a social construct). There were maybe 12 people at the meeting. Most in attendance were bla...

By deborah@psychjourney.com Alice  Kuzniar is a professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she has been teaching since 1983 apart from invitations as a guest professor at Princeton University, Rutgers University, and the University of Minnesota. She re...

By deborah@psychjourney.com Janet Golden, PhD. is a professor of history at Rutgers University where she specializes in the history of medicine, history of childhood, womenÃÂÃÂÂÃÂÂs history and American social history. She is the author or editor of seven books, and author or co-author of numerous articles. Her mos...