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May 2008
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Congratulations Rutgers Class of 2008!
There were congratulations and sage advice as Rutgers held its university-wide commencement on May 21 on the historic Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue Campus. Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick conferred over 10,850 academic degrees at commencement exercises which included representatives from all 27 degree-granting units and their guests. Delivering the keynote address and receiving an honorary Doctor of Letters degree was Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’
Washington Week and a senior correspondent for
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Ifill served as the 2007 Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.
Gates Scholars honored on Senate floor
The Senate floor was the venue for a capitol honor for Rutgers' four Gates Cambridge Scholarship winners held May 15 during Rutgers Day in Trenton activities at the State House. Governor Jon S. Corzine presented gubernatorial proclamations to the four New Jersey natives: Michael Hayoun of Margate; Suzanne Pilaar of Haledon; Ronn Friedlander of Cranford; and Brian Spatocco of Sewell. State Senators Tom Kean Jr., Fred Madden, Ray Lesniak and Christopher "Kip" Bateman hosted the scholars and about 100 guests in the Senate chambers and presented them with legislative resolutions. Rutgers and Harvard are the only American universities with four of the prestigious Gates award winners this year.
School of Public Administration at Newark Among Best
Rutgers' School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) in Newark has one of the nation's top 10 graduate programs in the areas of information and technology management, and public management and administration. So says the U.S. News & World Report, which unveiled its 2009 "Best Graduate School" rankings last month. SPAA ranks 9
th in information and technology management; 10th in public management and administration; 11
th in public finance and budgeting; 14
th in city management and urban policy; and 18
th in non-profit management. The survey, which was conducted in 2007 and was based on a peer assessment of deans, directors and department chairs representing 269 master's programs, measures the academic quality of each program on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished).
Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alan M. Leslie, professor of psychology and cognitive sciences in Rutgers' School of Arts and Sciences and director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Leslie, who has taught at Rutgers since 1993, is best known for his research into the child's "theory of mind": the development in early childhood of the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs and desires different from one's own. Leslie is among 16 members of the Rutgers faculty to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is the nation’s pre-eminent learned society and research institution.
Three Earn Top Teaching Award on Camden Campus
Camden professors, Ana Laguna, Maureen Morrin, and Naomi Marmorstein, have been honored with the 2008 Rutgers Camden Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence for advancing their students' knowledge through innovative and effective teaching. Laguna is an assistant professor of Spanish who has taught at Rutgers–Camden for five years. An associate professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business–Camden, Morrin recently completed a multi-year NASD Foundation grant that supported her research into how women select 401(k) funds. Marmorstein is an associate professor of psychology, and has received numerous grants in support of her research, including a $649,503 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. The annual Camden Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence award was established in 1993.
SERVICE TO THE STATE
Program for Women Leaders
The Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers will launch a new program for women leaders of the baby boom generation from June 2 to June 6 in New Brunswick. Entitled, "Life\Work Design™ Program for Women Ready to Make a Difference", this program is for women leaders who want to make the next step in their life — whether retirement, career move or new life direction — the most enjoyable and effective they have ever taken. For more program and registration information, call 800-333-9003 or contact Sandy Parker at
sparker101@gmail.com.
Conference on Public Administration
"Improving Government Performance", the Fourth Sino-US International Conference on Public Administration at Rutgers, jointly sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration, the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers in Newark, the China Public Administration Society, and the School of Public Administration of Renmin University of China, will be held on June 7 & 8 at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Newark campus. The conference is open to the public, with a registration fee. For more information, contact Ferlanda Fox Nixon at 973-353-5262 or email
ferlanda@andromeda.rutgers.edu.
PEOPLE IN THE KNOW
If you'd like to know more about:
Water Scarcity in China, Myanmar & the Global Crisis, contact
JENNY KEHL, assistant professor of political science at Rutgers-Camden, who can discuss the mounting global water crisis, and can address the specific situations manifesting in China and Myanmar. To communicate with KEHL, please contact Mike Sepanic of campus communication and public information by phone at (856) 225-6026 or by email at
msepanic@camden.rutgers.edu.
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