April 2016
The following events took place during Rutgers' 250th Anniversary commemoration held November 10, 2015, through November 10, 2016. Watch the documentary that chronicles the yearlong celebration at 250.rutgers.edu/250documentary.
Eagleton Institute Welcomes the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
In commemoration of its 60th Anniversary and Rutgers' 250th Anniversary, the Eagleton Institute of Politics welcomes Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, she assumed the role in August 2009. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Sotomayor served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2013, she authored My Beloved World, which recounts her journey from growing up in a Bronx, New York, housing project to her Supreme Court appointment. She is the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the high court. | Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center (RAC), 83 Rockafeller Road, Livingston Campus, Piscataway, NJ. This is a free event and registration is required.
Learn moreN. Ronald Morris Lecture Series Features Jay D. Keasling
Join us for the annual N. Ronald Morris Lecture Series featuring Jay D. Keasling, the Hubbard Howe Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley College of Chemistry. Keasling will discuss the engineering of microbial metabolism for the production of chemicals and fuels. This event is free and open to the public, and hosted by the Department of Pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. | Location: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Main Auditorium, 675 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ. Reception will follow in the Great Hall.
View event flyer (PDF)SEBS Executive Dean’s 250th Anniversary Public Lecture by Author Carl Safina
Carl Safina, award-winning author and MacArthur Genius Award winner, will present “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and talk begins at 7 p.m. Join us after the lecture for a reception and book signing. | Location: Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, Room 101, 61 Dudley Road, G.H. Cook Campus, New Brunswick, NJ.
Learn moreYvonne Rainer: “Doing Nothing/Nothin’ Doin’: Revisiting a Minimalist Approach to Performance”
The Mason Gross School of the Arts welcomes renowned American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer for a lecture entitled “Doing Nothing/Nothin’ Doin’” Revisiting a Minimalist Approach to Performance.” Join us after the lecture for a question-and-answer session with the artist. | Location: Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Admission is free.
Learn moreBright Futures Symposium: Improving Education and Transforming Outcomes for Girls of Color
Their voices, their struggles, even their data have been overlooked for years. Perhaps because overall, our nation's girls are graduating from high school at higher rates than boys we can assume they are doing just fine, right?
Wrong.
For girls of color a different, more alarming narrative emerges. Data broken down by race and gender show that girls of color are, in fact, graduating at far lower rates than White girls and boys. And this disparity has pervasive educational and economic consequences that resonate for the rest of their lives.
ETS and Rutgers University–Camden invite you to save the date for this symposium. An April 14–15 symposium — "Bright Futures: Improving Education and Transforming Outcomes for Girls of Color" — will provide a forum to hear the voices, consider the struggles and examine the data of girls of color. Attendees will explore how discrimination, structural and institutional barriers, and disparities in education disproportionately affect girls of color. They will also be encouraged to commit their expertise to research and interventions over the course of a year in an effort to mitigate the challenges this population faces.
Registration details, an agenda and lodging information will be available in the coming weeks. | Location: Camden Campus Center, 326 Penn Street, Camden, NJ.
Gould Lecture in Molecular and Cellular Medicine Featuring Thomas C. Südhof
Join us for the annual Dr. Kenneth S. and Audrey S. Gould Lecture in Molecular and Cellular Medicine featuring Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Südhof, Avram Goldstein Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford School of Medicine. Südhof will discuss how understanding the molecular logic of neural circuits may help us understand autism. Hosted by the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, this event is free and open to the public. | Location: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Clinical Academic Building, Room 1302, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
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Rutgers Symphony Orchestra with Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir
Under the direction of Patrick Gardner with Min Kwon on piano, together the Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir and Riverside Choral Society present Aldridge's Variations on a Folk Tune for piano solo and orchestra, Poulenc’s Gloria, and Duruflé’s Requiem. | Location: Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway, New York, NY. Tickets available at riversidechoral.org or lincolncenter.org and the box office at Alice Tully Hall, 212-875-5050.
Learn more17th Annual HIPHOP 5K Run/Walk
Join the annual 5K walk/run fundraising event organized by the Homeless and Indigent Population Health Outreach Project (HIPHOP). All proceeds will be donated to the Promise Clinic, a volunteer-based student-run clinic associated with the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School that provides free primary care services to uninsured patients. | Location: Johnson Park, River Road, Piscataway, NJ. Registration is required.
Learn moreWriters in Camden, Workshop and Reading
Join the Rutgers University–Camden Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Program for Writers in Camden, a workshop and reading featuring Karen Russell, author of the story collections St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. Russell is a graduate of the Columbia MFA Program and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. The workshop begins at 3 p.m. and the reading begins at 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. | Location: Workshop will be held at Rutgers University–Camden Writers House, 305 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ. Reading will be in the Camden Fine Arts Building, Stedman Gallery, 314 Linden Street, Camden, NJ.
Learn moreRutgers Digital Blackness Conference
Join scholars, students, activists, and artists for a two-day conference to examine how digital technologies have reshaped the meaning, understanding, and representation of Blackness. The conference will feature several discussions and break out sessions including a live-streamed digital town hall meeting. The keynote speaker is Mara Brock Akil, TV writer and producer and creator of show Girlfriends.
Sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences Department of History, the event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. | Location: Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ.
