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THE ONCE AND FUTURENEWARK – A MESSAGEOF HOPEBy Kathleen Brunet Eagan

It’s a city rich in history, hidden treasuresand a future that is unfolding, yet fewreally know or appreciate all Newark has to offer.

One clear exception is Clement A. Price. Board ofGovernors Distinguished Service Professor andNewark historian, Price has been providing tours ofthe historical and cultural gems of New Jersey’s largestcity for over 20 years. Now with one of his tours...continued on page 4

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By Kathleen Brunet Eagan

Rutgers in Newark just keeps on growing.From its humble roots where classes oncewere held in a converted beer brewery, aformer razor blade factory, old stables andbrownstone residences, R-N today is acohesive campus of first-rate facilities andcontinual activity.

Building on R-N’s strength as a major researchuniversity is the new state-of-the-art Life SciencesCenter. And this fall, the population of Newarkjumped by nearly 600 with the opening ofUniversity Square – the first new residentialhousing in 16 years.

The six-floor Life Sciences Center greatly expands R-N’sscientific research and teaching facilities, adding about 67,000square feet to the campus’s infrastructure. Housed within thecurved glass building are innovative open-format research andteaching laboratories to support the campus’s research andacademic programs in the life sciences. Moving away from theclosed, narrow labs of the past, the open-format labs aredesigned to foster collaboration among researchers and thestudents who work with them.

Biology classes currently are being taught in the new facility,and chemistry courses will be offered there in the spring. Twoof the floors are being held as unfinished shelled floors toallow for the future growth of the sciences at R-N.

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Built to support cutting-edge research, the newsix-floor Life Sciences Center is where you willfind two Rutgers-Newark professors who aredeciphering the dynamics of some of thesmallest life forms.

Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos,assistant professor of chemistry, iselucidating how proteins locate andconnect with specific DNA sequences

in human cells, allowing the genes to expressthemselves as traits or behaviors. Using biochemicaland biophysical techniques as well as nuclearmagnetic resonance imaging, a procedure whereradio waves and a powerful magnet create detailedimages of the inside of living organisms, Kalodimoshas discovered that proteins first will bind weaklywith any nearby DNA strand. They then will slidealong the DNA helix structure to locate the correctDNA complex and form a sequence. Understandinghow proteins and DNA find each other offersresearchers valuable information on how the transfer of genetic information can be modulated at the gene level.

And Nihal Altan-Bonnet, assistant professor ofcell biology, is researching the Ras superfamily ofGTPases, which are small proteins that play key roles in cell growth, differentiation, movement andtransport. These proteins can bind to specific sites on the cell membrane and recruit molecules to thesesites, possibly remodeling cell membranes into newstructures with specialized functions. For example,some GTPases are involved in viral replication indiseases affecting animals and humans (encephalitis,hepatitis A, the common cold). Knowing howGTPases remodel cellular membranes and regulatemolecular activity, explains Altan-Bonnet, couldprovide insight into ways to combat such diseases.

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A student works on a research project in the new Life Sciences Center.

Built in response to the growing demand for more on-campus housing, University Square is the latest additionto creating a dynamic 24/7 atmosphere at R-N. Includedamong the building’s features are retail spaces on the firstfloor, student lounges and a multipurpose room with

theater-style seating, along with spectacular views of theNewark and New York City skylines. The facility, at thecorner of University and Central avenues, also features ared-brick facade and plenty of windows to blend in withthe historical aspects of its neighborhood.

The new residence hall brings the number of studentsliving on campus to about 1,200. The university alsoplans to convert its former law school building at 15Washington Street into graduate student apartments tohouse another 200 to 300 students.

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The Newark programs of Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) soon will have anew home at 1 Washington Park. RBS will occupy11 stories of the red-brick tower, substantiallyincreasing classroom, lecture hall and office space,along with the visibility of the business school.

“Moving our business school to this strategic location in downtown Newark will contribute significantly tostrengthening our business programs and increasing the visibility and reputation of the school, and at thesame time also will contribute to the development ofdowntown Newark,” noted Provost Steven Diner. Thenew location for the school is ideal, Diner said, given

its proximity to the headquarters of a number of majorcorporations, the Broad Street Station and New JerseyTransit’s new light rail system.

The building is located one block from 15 WashingtonStreet, the former home of Rutgers School of Law-Newark, which the campus plans to convert to graduatestudent housing. Expansion of the R-N campus northwas identified in the university’s master plan adopted in2003. By freeing up the current space used by RBS, thecampus also will be able to expand space for othercurrent and future uses, including its plans for increasedenrollment.

RBS-NEWARK TO RELOCATE TO 1 WASHINGTON PARK By Helen Paxton

Rutgers Business School‘s move to 1 Washington Park will be a catalyst for dynamic change in Newark‘s North Broad Street business district.

The first new school established at Rutgers inNewark in more than 20 years opened its doorsthis semester. Under the leadership of Dean MarcHolzer, Rutgers Board of Governors Professor ofPublic Administration, and longtime chair of theGraduate Department of Public Administration,the School of Public Affairs and Administrationoffers master’s and doctoral programs in publicadministration, an executive MPA andprofessional certificates in such areas as nonprofitmanagement and urban educationaladministration.

During Holzer’s tenure as department chair, R-N’sprograms in public administration gained national

and international distinction. In the most recentrankings by U.S. News & World Report of graduateprograms in public affairs, R-N’s program was ranked26th in the nation, and 11th in public management.

“Public administration has long been a strength of theNewark campus,” commented Rutgers President RichardMcCormick. “We look forward to its growth here as therenowned department expands its operations as anindependent school.”

Currently, the school has 300 students. Its studentpopulation is expected to reach at least 500 studentsover the next few years.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ANDADMINISTRATION LAUNCHED THIS FALLBy Carla Capizzi

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R-N Tops in Diversity — 10 Years RunningIf you want to know what the face of the future willlook like, just take a look at Rutgers in Newark. For the 10th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Reporthas ranked R-N the most diverse national university inthe nation – a status it has held since U.S. News beganevaluating diversity in 1997.

“The extraordinary diversity of this campus has longattracted students and faculty who want to study andteach in our dynamic environment,” noted ProvostSteven Diner. “In educating students together from somany different national, ethnic, racial and religiousbackgrounds, we fulfill the highest ideals of our nationand make a powerful statement about how educationand the advancement of knowledge should be pursuedin an increasingly global world.”

For students who study at R-N, the campus’s diversityalso means they are better prepared to interact withpeople from a wide array of cultures. “The Rutgers-Newark campus, indeed, is a microcosm of the globaleconomy that enables us to interact with students fromdifferent countries and learn about their culture andtraditions,” said Amit Rijhsinghani, NCAS ’03. “Thishas helped me tremendously in my job at MerrillLynch. I am repeatedly called in to manage projectsthat are more global, as well as contribute to buildingmy company's multicultural business.”

Avian Visitors Arrive on the R-N Campus

True, the phrase “urban university” conjuresup images of traffic, scurrying pedestrians

and concrete. But at certain times of theyear, birdsongs replace car horns as

flocks of avian visitors become part ofthe Rutgers-Newark landscape.

During the fall migration, birdstraveling south for the winter fill thecampus and its trees. With so manybirds passing through, ClausHolzapfel, assistant professor in theDepartment of Biological Sciences,

likes to take advantage of theopportunity by leading bird walks in

October. Over the past two years, thegroups have identified almost 90 species.

So why do so many birds visit the R-Ncampus? Holzapfel explains that many birds

orient themselves during migration along theAtlantic coastline, and, therefore, pass through NewJersey twice a year. The R-N campus’s proximity to thecoast and its forest-like atmosphere, specifically on thePlaza, make it an especially inviting environmentwhere birds can find some shelter.

If you missed thisfall’s bird walks, besure to take partin the walksHolzapfel will beoffering again in Maywhen the birds return.

Helping Students Develop the Write StuffSince 1998, Rutgers collegians in Newark have had anot-so-secret weapon in their battle to succeedacademically and in the world beyond the campus: theWriting Center. More than 13,000 undergraduate andgraduate students, from all academic disciplines, haveeither worked one-on-one with tutors or attendedworkshops, all with one goal: to improve theircommunication skills.

“Writing isn’t just for English majors; it’s a skilleveryone needs, in every discipline,” explains WritingCenter Director Patricia Bender, noting that everymajor requires students to write papers and reports.Writing well goes beyond grammar, says Bender; tutorshelp students learn how to analyze and organize theirresearch findings, and “talk out” the best ways to

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present their ideas on paper. In the process, adds Bender,students also improve their oral communications skills.

The need to write effectively and persuasively doesn’t endwith graduation either. Bender cites a frequent complaintwithin the corporate world: many employees have a greatgrasp of their field of expertise but cannot communicatewell with colleagues, producing confusing reports, memosand even poorly written email.

There’s also another, more important reason tocommunicate well, says Bender. “Writing is power,especially in a democracy. Democracy and literacy can’t beseparated.”

RBS Earns High Grades from Recruiters and Wall Street JournalThe word is out – recruiters find Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) one of the best sourcesfor top MBAs. Earning high marks from recruiters, RBSnow has been included in The Wall Street Journal’s MBAsurvey. According to Jack Kirnan, RBS senior director ofMBA programs, The Wall Street Journal survey isparticularly significant since it is based solely on theopinions and experience of employment recruiters.

With a ranking of 39, RBS was one of only eight newschools this year to make it into the “Regional Ranking.”It also was the only AACSB (Association to AdvanceCollegiate Schools of Business) accredited institution inNew Jersey to place in the survey.

Also this year – for the fifth consecutive year – RBS hasplaced among the top 80 business schools out of more than 400 schools covered in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Business Schools Survey.” As with The Wall StreetJournal survey, RBS was the only MBA program offeredwithin New Jersey included in the U.S. News listing oftop business schools.

IN MEMORIAM ALFRED MANN - FOUNDER OF THERUTGERS UNIVERSITY CHORUS

A prominent figure in the early growth of the arts atRutgers in Newark, Alfred Mann passed away onSeptember 21 at the age of 90.

In 1947, just one year after the Newark campusbecame part of Rutgers, The State University of NewJersey, Mann was appointed to the faculty and chargedwith creating a music department. He began byteaching several courses and organizing the RutgersUniversity Chorus, serving as conductor for 20 years.In addition to teaching and conducting at R-N, Manntaught graduate courses in musicology on the NewBrunswick campus.

The upcoming Rutgers University Chorus HolidayConcerts, scheduled for Sunday, December 3, in TheEpiscopal Church of the Holy Spirit in Verona, andSunday, December 10, at St. Mary’s Abbey Church inNewark, will be given in honor of Mann.

Rutgers College of Nursing, with more than 700students on the university’s three campuses, iscelebrating its 50th anniversary with a series ofevents celebrating the accomplishments of itsstudents, alumni and faculty.

Rutgers has educated nurses since the early 1940s whenthe Newark and Camden campuses began offering coursesin public health nursing. The Rutgers College of Nursingofficially became a college in 1956 after beginning as theSchool of Nursing in 1952. Throughout its history, Rutgersnursing students have benefited from learning from a

faculty widely respected for their excellence as educatorsand researchers. Today, the college includes more fellowsin the prestigious American Academy of Nursing on thefaculty than any other college of nursing in New Jersey.

The college launched its 50th anniversary celebration with a faculty and alumni authors reception andexhibition at the John Cotton Dana Library on theRutgers-Newark campus. More than 225 books were listed in the catalog. The yearlong celebration willconclude with a 50th Anniversary Gala at The Palace at Somerset Park on April 26.

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A CENTURY OF REACHING HIGHER – www.newark.rutgers.edu/history

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CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT— R-N HOMECOMING 2006By Carla Capizzi

Who says you need a football game to have a Homecoming? That certainly wasn’t the case whenHomecoming festivities at Rutgers in Newark brought together students, staff, faculty, alumni and their families to “Celebrate the Spirit, Share the Pride.” The four-day celebration of Rutgers-Newark spirit began Sept. 29 with a reception honoring College of Nursing authors and the

Mr. and Ms. Rutgers-Newark talent show, and culminated with a rousing talkby recently elected Newark Mayor Cory Booker at an alumni brunch onOct.1. Booker called the Rutgers-Newark community a “shining example”of how people working together can bridge the lines separating races,religions and ethnic groups.

As it did last year, when Rutgers in Newark threw its first realHomecoming, this year’s party offered numerous memory-makingopportunities: Fall Fest Fair, School Spirit Day and the rededication of Alumni Field, a Homecoming Showcase, an alumni/studentbasketball game and other athletic competitions, along with an alumni mixer, a concert, screenings of The Once and Future Newarkvideo documentary, and walking and bus tours of the campus and city.

Homecoming reflects Provost Steven Diner’scommitment to improve student life and enhance community spirit. It evolvedfrom Family Weekend programs forresident students and their families.

During his keynote address at the Homecoming brunch, Newark Mayor Cory Booker asserted that people working together, as they do in Rutgers in Newark, can erase the lines separating racial, religious and ethnic groups.

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captured in the documentary The Once and FutureNewark, others, too, can gain a deeper appreciation ofNewark’s impressive past and promising future.

Top on that list are the young people who call Newarkhome. The producers of the documentary (Rutgers inNewark in association with Blackbird Media Group)hope to make the film available to students in Newark sothey can be inspired by their city.

“We really do need to introduce our kids to their city,”said Price. “Kids in Newark don’t realize how special thehistory of their city is and how much hope its futureholds.”

The documentary follows Price as he tours Newark withcolleagues, visiting 18 historical and cultural sites, and

shares his knowledge of the city and its often-overlookedaspects. In Newark Penn Station, he stops to point outthe Art Deco architecture and images depictingtransportation modes from Colonial times to the jet age.Other sites visited include Branch Brook Park,Weequahic High School, the New Jersey Performing ArtsCenter and Essex County Courthouse.

The film is “part travelogue, part documentary and parthistory lesson,” explained Helen Paxton, the film’sproducer and director of communications at R-N. “Thegoal is to engage viewers’ interest for personalexploration and discovery.”

For more information, including how to obtaincopies of the DVD, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/newark.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

ALVIN FELZENBERG, FROMTHE 9/11 COMMISSION TOGOV. KEAN BIOGRAPHERBy Christene Q. Bland

For 25 years, Alvin Felzenberg, NCAS ’71 andGSNB ’73, has been an active force in publicservice both in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.His work as spokesman for the 9-11 Commissionand the 9-11 Public Discourse Project also led himto write Governor Tom Kean: From the NewJersey Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission(Rutgers University Press).

Felzenberg recalls how he was influenced by NormanSamuels, former provost of Rutgers-Newark andprofessor of political science, during the 1960s. “It wasdifficult teaching American government when warprotesters and student activists were taking overuniversity buildings and calling student strikes, whenPresident Johnson was all but forced to abdicate, andwhen Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and presidentialhopeful Robert Kennedy were gunned down,” saysFelzenberg. “Yet Samuels knew how to relate his lecturesto what was going on around us and in the world.”

On the state level, Felzenberg served as New Jersey’sassistant secretary of state for Kean, concentrating on cultural policy and the revitalization of Newark.He also has been an influential advocate for the arts in New Jersey.

During his career in federal public service, he workedwith two presidential administrations as a consultant tothe Secretary of the Navy and as director of outreach inthe Office of the Secretary of Defense. While a fellow atthe Heritage Foundation, he directed the “Mandate2000” project on the presidential transition process. Inthe 1990s, he served on the senior majority staff on theHouse of Representatives Government Reform andOversight Committee, and as staff director of theEmpowerment Subcommittee of the Small BusinessCommittee. Today he is a visiting professor of politics atPrinceton University.

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Not pictured are the youngest members ofthe families of Naseem Choudhurry, CMBN;Allison Creary, College of Nursing; JohnGeorge, Physical Plant; Melissa Faulkner,FAS-N; Jaray Harvey, Housing and ResidenceLife; Doug Levine, Mailroom; MarangeliMelendez, Physical Plant; Hyona Revere,RBS; Annette Romeo, Admissions; and Thomas Lu, Criminal Justice.

OOH, BABY BABY…Have you heard about R-N's baby boom? With 16 babiesborn this year to staff and faculty, the youngest membersof R-N’s extended family were invited to campus for aclass photo.

IMPROVING THE HEALTHOF LATINA IMMIGRANTSKaren T. D’Alonzo, assistant professor, Rutgers Collegeof Nursing, has been awarded a $274,104 grant from theNational Institute of Nursing Research at the NationalInstitutes of Health to examine the attitudes and beliefsof young Latina immigrants with regard to physicalactivity, and to test a pilot physical activity interventionfor Latinas.

INTEGRATING IMMIGRANTSCHOOL CHILDRENSherri-Ann Butterfield, assistant professor of sociology,was named a fellow of the Social Science ResearchCouncil for the 2006-07 academic year and is workingon a National Science Foundation funded project,“Children of Immigrants in Schools.” As part of thatproject, she will be conducting international comparativeresearch and investigating the role of educationalinstitutions and policy in the integration of West Indianand South Asian immigrant students in Great Britainand the United States.

2006 PROVOST’SRESEARCH AWARD

The 2006 Provost’s Research Award for DistinguishedScholarship has been presented to Board of GovernorsProfessor György Buzsáki of the Center for Molecular &Behavioral Neuroscience. For the past 25 years, Buzsáki’swork has focused on the hippocampus and the role of the neurons located there in maintaining long-termmemory, as well as related research into epilepsy,depression, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.The award is presented to professors who haveperformed “exceptional scholarly work on a subject of fundamental intellectual importance.”

NATURAL FERTILIZATIONIN THE OCEANYuan Gao, assistant professor of earth andenvironmental sciences, recently received a $249,616grant from the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration to support her research on naturalfertilization in the ocean and its impacts on oceannitrogen fixation and carbon cycles.

THE SOCIETY FORBUSINESS ETHICSEdwin Hartman, founding director of The PrudentialBusiness Ethics Center and professor at the RutgersBusiness School-Newark and New Brunswick, recentlybegan his one-year term as president of the Society for

Business Ethics (SBE). Founded in 1980, the SBE is aninternational organization devoted to the study ofbusiness ethics. Hartman has been a member of theorganization for 20 years.

A SLOAN FELLOWSHIPFrieder Jaekle, associate professor of chemistry, has beenawarded one of science’s most prestigious honors: anAlfred P. Sloan Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded tothose who have demonstrated excellence early in theircareers. Jaekle’s current work includes the developmentof new functional materials that provide brighter andsharper alternatives to the current plasma and liquidcrystal display technology used in television, computerand cell phone screen monitors.

MISSION TO AFGHANISTANJanet L. Larson, associate professor of English, traveledto Afghanistan this past summer where she was part ofthe human rights group Global Exchange’s delegation toinvestigate current conditions in the country. Specifically,her focus was on how women are faring in the county.Her findings: Afghanistan consists of “some verycourageous, determined women who are working, undervery difficult conditions, for peace and justice in theircounty.” Since returning, Larson has incorporated herfindings into her classes and writings, and also isdeveloping a script for National Public Radio’s “ThisAmerican Life.”

THE NATION’S TOPJAZZ AWARDThe National Endowment of the Arts has awarded DanMorgenstern, director of the Rutgers Institute of JazzStudies, the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award forJazz Advocacy. The award is considered the nation’shighest jazz honor. Morgenstern is the only non-musician among this year’s honorees. The long-timedirector of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Morgensternearlier this year also was awarded the Deems TaylorAward for “outstanding print, broadcast and new mediacoverage of music” from the American Society ofComposers.

NEW THEORY OF RISK-AVERSE OPTIMIZATIONAndrzej Ruszczynski, professor, Rutgers BusinessSchool-Newark and New Brunswick, was recentlyawarded a third grant from the National ScienceFoundation for research aimed at developing a new

mathematical theory of optimization of dynamicstochastic systems under high uncertainty and risk.Ruszczynski is the principal investigator in this projectbeing conducted jointly with the Stevens Institute ofTechnology. The research is designed to capture theentire distribution of outcomes, including events ofsmall probability but high consequences, rather than justaverage performance.

THEIR SUCCESS IS IN THEMATH TEST SCORES

Preliminary results from the Newark Public SchoolSystemic Initiative in Mathematics (NPSSIM) project,funded by the National Science Foundation, revealed thatelementary students who participated in the programmade significant gains, suggesting that a rise instandardized test scores was the result of the NPSSIMproject. Led by Roberta Schorr, associate professor ofmathematics education, the project’s five-year plan isdesigned to achieve comprehensive reform inmathematics education through new standards-basedapproaches to the teaching and learning of mathematics.

PROVIDING A BETTERUNDERSTANDING OFHOW WE LEARNPaula Tallal, Rutgers Board of Governors Professor of Neuroscience and co-director of the Center forMolecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, is leading theRutgers team involved in the “Temporal DynamicsLearning Center.” A collaborative effort of the Universityof California-San Diego, Rutgers in Newark, VanderbiltUniversity and other institutions, the center has received$3.5 million from the National Science Foundation, withthe possibility of an additional $32 million over the nextdecade, to study and clarify the role that timing plays inlearning.

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HOME-BASED EXERCISE FOR ELDERS Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins, assistant professor, RutgersCollege of Nursing, has received a two-year $154,000grant from the National Institutes of Health to test theeffects of home-based exercise intervention on elderswith end-stage renal disease, along with the feasibility ofa research plan for a larger clinical trial.

AN INFORMED DISCUSSIONOF EDUCATION POLICYPaul Tractenberg, Board of Governors DistinguishedService Professor and founder of the Institute onEducation Law and Policy, Rutgers School of Law-Newark, has received a $100,000 grant from ThePrudential Foundation for implementation of a “Quality

Single Accountability Continuum” in local schooldistricts and general operating funds for the Institute onEducation Law and Policy, along with a $50,000 grantfrom The Fund for New Jersey for “Promoting InformedDiscussion of Education Policy Issues.”

ESSAYS ONKATRINA David D. Troutt,professor, Rutgers Schoolof Law-Newark, hasedited a book of essays,After the Storm: BlackIntellectuals Explorethe Meaning ofHurricane Katrina,examining thesocial, policy and

legal issues raised by Hurricane Katrina. Trout said thathe was compelled to put the book together afterexamining first-hand the poverty and inequality revealedin the aftermath of the storm. He also contributed anessay, “Many Thousands Gone, Again,” to the book,published by the New Press.

A FULBRIGHT SCHOLARA recognized expert in discovering new ways to protectand preserve oceans, beaches and marshes, Judith Weis,professor of biological sciences, earlier this year waspresented with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. Theaward allowed her to travel to Indonesia where sheshared her research on metal pollution in the marineenvironment in a series of lectures and workshops thatshe gave in Sulawesi.

NOV. 29 “Imitating Relevant Firms”Management Education Center 12:30–2:00 p.m.

NOV. 30Newark Boys ChorusCenter for Law and Justice12:30 –1:30 pm.

DEC. 8The Campaign to Close Oyster CreekNuclear Power Plant: An EnvironmentalLaw Clinic Symposium Hosted by Alec BaldwinCenter for Law and Justice5:30 p.m.

DEC 10Rutgers University ChorusSt. Mary’s Abbey Church, Newark3 p.m.

JAN. 16–FEB. 22Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Justice in CambodiaPaul Robeson Gallery5–8 p.m.

JAN. 25Stoffer Lecture by Professor Mark S.Weiner & Legal History ScholarsReceptionCenter for Law and Justice6 p.m.

FEB. 1–FEB. 28James P. Johnson: Father of Stride PianoTreasures from the Institute of Jazz Studies collectionsJohn Cotton Dana Library

FEB. 1727th Annual Marion Thompson WrightLecture SeriesPaul Robeson Campus Center9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

MARCH 21Mechanisms of Decision Making in theHuman BrainNeuroscience at the Crossroads Colloquium SeriesAidekman Research Center11 a.m.

APRIL 12Strathmere Baroque Ensemble Celebrates SpringVivaldi’s Four SeasonsJohn Cotton Dana Library12:30–1:30 p.m.

APRIL 18–22The Detention ProjectBradley Hall Theater7 p.m., April 18–21; 2:30 pm., April 22

APRIL 26College of Nursing 50th Anniversary GalaThe Palace at Somerset Park6:30 p.m.

MAY 16–25Rutgers-NewarkCommencement Ceremonieswww.newark.rutgers.edu/commencement

What’s Going On at R-N? A sampling of events this year at Rutgers-Newark

For a complete listing, visit www.newark.rutgers.edu/events

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