Tag: Rutgers University
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Young woman uses assistive technology to achieve her goals
SAYREVILLE – A young woman from Sayreville has been honored for her courage, determination, confidence and spirit while coping with her disability. Rutgers University student Carly Hewitt was honored by Advancing Opportunities, Inc. at its annual spring hoedown in April, receiving the Andrew J. Murphy Award. Hewitt has spinal muscular atrophy, a neuromuscular disease that…
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Exercise program sparks new life in aging adults
For octogenarians Ruth Gottlieb and Jean Timper, exercise is the high point of their day. What gets the East Brunswick Senior Center members most excited? Line dancing. “I even dance around the house. When I’m vacuuming or cooking, I just stop and dance around and stretch. I like to be flexible,” said Gottlieb, 82, a…
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Free tickets available to Shout Down Drugs concert
Free tickets are available for the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s 13th annual New Jersey Shout Down Drugs Prevention Concert. Presented by the New Jersey Broadcasters Association, 14 musical acts comprising 31 New Jersey high school students will perform at 7:30 p.m. on May 19 at the Rutgers University Nicholas Music Center in New…
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State climatologist to speak at East Brunswick Library
New Jersey state climatologist and Rutgers geography professor David Robinson will discuss the state’s climate change, its causes and impacts at 7 p.m. May 24 at the East Brunswick Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive. This event is part of a series sponsored by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission in collaboration…
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Dozens learn about the basics of Islam
Subhead: Judaism will be explored during next ‘Faith, Conversation and Coffee’ event SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Dozens of people of diverse faiths joined together to gain insight into the Islamic faith. The South Brunswick Human Relations Commission (SBHRC) presented its second “Faith, Conversation and Coffee” event on April 25 at the Islamic Society of Central Jersey…
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North Brunswick student accepted to multiple colleges
By JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Cynthia Liang has a difficult choice to make in the months ahead: which one of the nine colleges she was accepted to will be her destination for the next four years. Liang, a senior at North Brunswick Township High School, said she is leaning most toward the…
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Scholarships available for young adults dealing with loss
Good Grief is partnering with Marna’s Pals to support both organization’s efforts to help grieving teens and young adults in New Jersey. Marna’s Pals is a nonprofit organization in memory of Marna Pal, of South Brunswick, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2008 when her son David was a freshman at Rutgers University. When…
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Talk on hydroculture slated for April 26
The Option Green Speakers Series presented by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission continues at 7 p.m. on April 26 with a talk on hydroculture – the science of growing plants in a soil-free environment – at the East Brunswick Public Library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center. Speaker Stephanie Alea, a field researcher in…
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Author to speak about growing up Hasidic
Shulem Deen, author of the memoir “All Who Go Do Not Return,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. on April 26 at the Douglass Student Center, 100 George St., New Brunswick, about his struggles with faith, family and community growing up in one of America’s most insular Hasidic sects. Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center…
