Tag: Rutgers
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EARTH Center to hold Garden and Music Festival on Aug. 24
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County will be the host to its Garden and Music Festival from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 24, rain or shine, at the EARTH Center, in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Ave., South Brunswick. The day will be filled with family-oriented activities, including garden tours, presentations…
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South Brunswick man named a ‘Loyal Son’ of Rutgers
NORTH BRUNSWICK – Roy H. Tanzman of the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick is among seven Rutgers University alumni who have been designated Loyal Sons and Loyal Daughters by the Rutgers Alumni Association (RAA). The honorees will be inducted during a “scarlet-tie” affair to be held at Neilson Dining Hall on the Cook/Douglass Campus…
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Rutgers to face Lehigh in annual Outdoor Classic Jan. 7
By Warren Rappleyea The Rutgers University men’s Division I club hockey team will take on Lehigh University Jan. 7 in its annual Outdoor Classic at the Navesink Country Club in Middletown. Admission is free, but attendees are asked to make donations to the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to curing spinal cord…
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Struggles continue for Rutgers on the football field
By Jimmy Allinder The prospects have certainly changed for the Rutgers University football team (0-8 Big Ten, 2-9 overall) since the season began. Back on Sept. 3, the Scarlet Knights opened the 2016 season with a trip to Seattle to face the University of Washington and were led by new head coach Chris Ash. An…
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Rutgers’ football team trying to remain competitive
By Jimmy Allinder Either Rutgers University head football coach Chris Ash is an eternal optimist or he knows how to put on a good front in the face of the adversity his team is going through. The Scarlet Knights are 0-6 in the Big Ten Conference and 2-7 overall, and that is an accurate reflection…
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Pallone announces grant to improve health-care system
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-Monmouth, Middlesex) announced a $675,471 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant to Dr. Zhiqiang Tan of Rutgers University to support studies of a range of conditions and problems that impose high burdens on patients, caregivers and the health-care system. Specifically, Tan will be working to improve statistical methods…
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Rutgers Equine Science Center kicks off 15 years of excellence
NEW BRUNSWICK — Close to 100 people attended the 2016 Rutgers Equine Science Center summer showcase in the kickoff celebration of the center’s 15-year anniversary. Welcoming remarks were given by Dr. Karyn Malinowski, director of the Equine Science Center, Dr. Wendie Cohick, chair of the Department of Animal Sciences, and Dr. Brad Hillman, senior associate director…
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History of the Holocaust course completed by area educators
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY – Fourteen educators from across New Jersey participated in an intensive professional development course on the history of the Holocaust at Rutgers. Now in its fourth year, this free mini-course offered through the Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education (MTI) provides a rare opportunity for teachers to study Holocaust history in an intensive…
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Musicians perform original songs as part of drug prevention awareness
NEW BRUNSWICK – Twenty-nine New Jersey high school students will perform their original substance abuse prevention songs at the 12th annual ‘Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert’ at Rutgers University Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St, New Brunswick, on Wednesday, May 25, 7-9 p.m. Twenty-one performances consisting of twenty-nine high school finalists representing fourteen counties throughout…