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for New Jersey's Policy Leaders
November 2007
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CAMPUS
NEWS
New Dean leads School of Pharmacy
Rutgers' Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy has a new dean in Christopher J. Molloy, Ph.D., R.Ph., who has returned to lead his alma in the rapidly evolving pharmacy and health care environment of the 21st century. Molloy, whose appointment was effective October 22, succeeds longstanding School of Pharmacy Dean John Colaizzi, who will return to the faculty after an outstanding tenure as dean. Molloy comes to Rutgers from Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development L.L.C., where he served as senior research fellow and team leader in the East Coast Research and Early Development unit.
Rutgers–Newark Students Score Well in Brain Bowl
The Rutgers–Newark Federal Reserve Challenge team followed up its success last year, by placing second this year in the New York Federal Reserve District Finals of the seventh annual College Fed Challenge. For its second place finish, the R–N Fed Challenge tram was awarded $10,000 in scholarship money from the Moody's Foundation. To reach the finals, the Rutgers–Newark students first had to beat four other schools in the first round, held on November 5. They then defeated Princeton University in the semi-finals on November 16, before coming in second to SUNY–Geneseo, which had placed second to Rutgers in last year's competition.
Physicist Earns Prestigious Packard Foundation Fellowship
For the first time a Rutgers professor has been awarded a highly coveted fellowship from the Packard Foundation. Physicist Emil Yuzbashyan, who came to Rutgers in 2004, has received a Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, which provides $625,000 in research funding for five years. Yuzbashyan is among 20 fellows that the foundation selected from nominations at 50 of the nation's top private and public research universities. He is also one of two physics faculty selected for this year's fellowships. Recipients are in the first three years of their faculty careers and have shown exceptional creativity in individual research.
Rutgers Camden to initiate Four-Year Business Program
The Rutgers School of Business–Camden will transition from a two-year to a four-year business program for undergraduates, and in the fall of 2008, will welcome its inaugural class of first-year students to the program. Since the program began in 1988, the Rutgers School of Business–Camden offered an upper-division undergraduate program which allowed students to enroll after they completed two years of prerequisite coursework. The option will continue for transfer students from county colleges to earn their Rutgers business degree. The new four-year program will provide new high school graduates with a full business immersion experience from their first day as a college student, a model of business schools at such institutions as NYU, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Michigan, which just changed from a two-year to a three-year program.
SERVICE
TO THE STATE
Online Directory of Experts
Rutgers Office of Medial Relations has launched an
online directory that connects media with Rutgers experts, with close to 200 faculty and staff members willing to share their scholarly or professional expertise on a broad range of topics. Faculty and staff from all three campuses who teach, do research, provide services, or direct centers and institutes are included in the directory, which was developed in collaboration with the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRAP), creative services, and community affairs.
PEOPLE IN THE KNOW
If you'd like to know more about:
Travel and Transportation during the nation's busiest travel season, contact
JAMES DUNN, professor of political science and public policy at Rutgers–Camden. A noted scholar on transportation policy in the United States and Europe, his books include "Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility" and "Miles to Go: European and American Transportation Policies." He can be reached at (856) 225-2995 or by email at
jadunn@camden.rutgers.edu.
Tainted toys and other defective products, contact
DANIEL COOK, associate professor of childhood studies at Rutgers–Camden and an expert on the role of children as consumers in American culture, at (856) 225-2816 or by email at
dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu. Or contact.
CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGH, professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business–Camden and a noted expert on consumer behavior and retail strategy, at (856) 225-6592 or by email at
ckaufman@camden.rutgers.edu. Also available is
BRIANCE MASCARENHAS, professor of management at the Rutgers School of Business–Camden, who has been cited by the Journal of International Management as one of the world's 20 most-prolific researchers in the area of international strategic management at (856) 225-6720 and by email at
mascaren@camden.rutgers.edu.
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