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April 2008
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Institute of Regenerative Medicine has Rutgers Leadership
In a major national effort to pursue innovative healing for the war wounded, the US Army has funded a $85 million dollar Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). The New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University, with principal partner the Cleveland Clinic, was awarded $42.5 million over five years to create one of two academic groups that will constitute AFIRM. The second academic group, which comprises Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh, was awarded another $42.5 million in funding. AFIRM will develop new products and therapies for the repair of battlefield injuries through the use of regenerative medicine.
CAIT Awarded Federal Bridge Performance Program Contract
The Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) has been named prime contractor of a competitive five-year contract worth up to $25.5 million awarded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). This award is part of the FHWA Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program, a 20-year research study to expand quality information available on bridge performance in order to help bridge and highway managers make better decisions. This study will be the first to collect uniform bridge performance data at the national level. Among its objectives are better understanding of bridge deterioration and more effective maintenance and repair strategies.
Prudential Contributes $5 Million to Business School
The Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick has garnered a $5 million contribution from Prudential as part of the school's efforts to establish a new home, an endowed chair, and a center dedicated to business ethics and leadership in the business, nonprofit, and philanthropic arenas. A reported $3 million of Prudential's contribution will endow a Chair at the Rutgers Business School while the remainder will go towards creating the center.
New Director of Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
The university's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS), part of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (formerly Cook), has acquired Francisco Werner as its new Director. A respected scholar in ocean modeling and most recently a faculty member and chair of marine science at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, Werner is a pioneer in putting technology to use in the service of oceanography. He succeeds J. Frederick Grassle, the institute's founding director who came to Rutgers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1989, and who will return to teaching and research.
SERVICE TO THE STATE
Summer Session Offerings for Writers
Rutgers' Summer Session will offer a range of Writing Program Extension (WPx) online and in-classroom, noncredit classes for professionals taught by the Department of English for writers with different needs and abilities. For more information, visit
wpx.rutgers.edu or send an e-mail to
danspink@rci.rutgers.edu. Registration for all Rutgers Summer Session courses is ongoing. Sessions run from May 27 to July 3, June 23 to Aug. 1 and July 7 to Aug. 13. To avoid late registration fees, participants should register and pay by May 16, June 13, and June 27, respectively. For more information about Summer Session, visit
www.summersession.rutgers.edu.
Camden Open House
An open house for prospective students interested in the Rutgers University–Camden graduate program in physical therapy will be held in Stratford on Wednesday, May 7. This information session will allow interested individuals to learn more about the academic requirements for admission to the graduate physical therapy program offered jointly by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers–Camden. More information is available at
http://shrp.umdnj.edu/programs/mpt/.
PEOPLE IN THE KNOW
If you'd like to know more about:
The NJ Superior Court Ruling Giving Access to Test Electronic Voting Machines, contact
PENNY VENETIS, Clinical law Professor and co-director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark at (973) 353-5687 or by email at
venetis@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
The Global Food Crisis, contact
CARL PRAY, chair of the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He is also an adjunct professor and advisor of the Ph.D. Program and a member of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Science. He can be reached at 732-932-9155, ext. 219 or by email at
pray@aesop.rutgers.edu.
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