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June 2007
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Governing Board elects Chair and Vice Chair
The
Rev. Dr. M. William Howard Jr., pastor of Newark’s Bethany Baptist Church, has been elected to serve as chair of the Board of Governors at Rutgers. Howard, who has been a member of the Board of Governors since 2004, is also a member of the university's Board of Trustees. His term begins July 1. Chairs of the Board of Governors (BOG) serve one-year terms and are eligible to serve three successive terms. Elected to a one-year term as vice chair to the BOG was
Patricia Nachtigal, senior vice president, general counsel and a director of Ingersoll–Rand Co. Ltd. in Montvale. Nachtigal, who is a graduate of the Rutgers School of Law–Newark, was formerly a member of Rutgers' Board of Trustees for 10 years, serving as chair in 2003-2004. Her term begins July 1.
Board of Trustees Elects Officers
The university's Board of Trustees has elected its offices for 2007-2007, choosing as its chairperson, Gerald C. Harvey, executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Breeze-Eastern Corp., and a former co-vice chair of the Rutgers' Board of Trustees. Anthony J. DePetris, a 21-year public management professional and director of administrative and personnel services for the LEAP Academy University Charter School District Inc. in Camden, will serve his second one-year term as co-vice chair. He shares this position with Mark P. Hershhorn, a current trustee and chair and chief executive officer of CKS and Associates. The new officers' terms will begin July 1.
First Endowed Professorship at Rutgers–Camden
Rutgers–Camden alumnus and wife, Joseph S. and Loretta L. Lopez, have contributed a multimillion-dollar gift to create the campus’ first endowed professorship in memory of a beloved professor. The Joseph and Loretta Lopez Endowed Professorship in Mathematics, in honor of Professor Leonard Bidwell, will allow Rutgers-Camden to attract a top mathematician to support the campus' growing program in computational biology. Rutgers-Camden already is a leader in this expanding discipline, which applies computational modeling to the biosciences. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate students at Rutgers–Camden, the Joseph and Loretta Lopez Professor in Mathematics will participate actively in the Systems Biology Institute, a state-of-the-art Camden facility that will promote collaborative scientific advancements among researchers from Rutgers, UMDNJ, Cooper University Hospital, the Coriell Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
$3 Million Grant to Heldrich Center
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers was the recipient of a $3 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in honor of the lifetime service of Rutgers alumnus and supporter John J. Heldrich. The center was established in 1997 with a generous gift from Heldrich and his wife, Regina, herself a Rutgers graduate, and is part of the Rutgers' Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. The Center, one of the nation's leading university-based research centers dedicated to strengthening the American workforce, will use income from the endowment provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct independent research on innovative solutions to workforce problems.
LEAP Health Center gets boost
A family health center associated with the LEAP Academy University Charter Schools received a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which will lead to expanded health care services for Camden children and families. This Foundation grant will allow the Rutgers/LEAP (Leadership, Education And Partnership) Academy Health and Human Services Center to add mental/behavioral health and family counseling services; establish a clinic to serve adolescents; and launch a prenatal/early childhood program that will deliver prenatal and pediatric care. This four-year grant represents the Foundation's continuing support of LEAP and specifically, the LEAP health center, whichwas launched in 2001 with the support of the Robert Wood Foundation.
SERVICE
TO THE STATE
Executive Masters in Public Administration program
The Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) has begun a unique partnership with Newark City Hall, offering its Executive Masters in Public Administration program on site in City Hall for city employees and other public and nonprofit professionals. The Newark Executive MPA program is part of a collaboration between the city's new administration and SPAA — based at Rutgers-Newark — to improve the city's delivery of services to its citizens. The Executive MPA (EMPA) program, which is one of the most diverse in the nation, is already taught in Trenton.
PEOPLE IN THE KNOW
If you'd like to know more about:
Mainstream Media and its coverage of the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts, long-standing laws amended by Congress when it passed the Defense Authorization Bill last fall, contact Robert Kubey, a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers, and director of the Center for Media Studies. KUBEY can be reached at (732) 932-7500, Ext. 8164, or by email at
kubey@scils.rutgers.edu. In addition, contact Mark S. Weiner, professor at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark. WEINER can be reached at (203) 776-8141, or by email at
mweiner@kinoy.rutgers.edu.
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