Join us for the 19th annual Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture in Bioethics featuring Larry Temkin, distinguished professor and chair of philosophy at the School of Arts and Sciences, and ambassador Meryl Frank, president and CEO of Makeda Global Network. Temkin and Frank will discuss achieving equality in health, health care, and society. This event is free and open to the public, and hosted by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. | Location: Clinical Academic Building, room 1302, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Reception will follow in conference rooms 3403 and 3404.

Join the Rutgers University Alumni Association as we induct five extraordinary graduates into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni. This year's inspirational honorees include Stephen I. Chazen, Phuti Mahanyele, Devin and Jason McCourty, and Sung Poblete. The 29th annual black-tie awards ceremony will celebrate these Rutgers graduates for their exceptional professional and civic achievements. | Location: Cocktail reception and awards ceremony will be hosted at the George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, followed by an after-party at the Heldrich Hotel, Livingston Ballroom, 10 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ.

The New Jersey Center for the Book (NJCB) celebrates its 15th anniversary, commemorates its partnership with Rutgers School of Communication and Information, and honors Rutgers 250th Anniversary by showcasing its dynamic literacy awards, initiatives, and programs.

Letters about Literature Awards Ceremony: After five rounds of judging, NJCB will present awards to New Jersey students for their winning essays as a part of the national Library of Congress Center for the Book program—an annual competition that attracts nearly 58,000 young readers. All winners, their families, teachers, and administrators are welcome to attend the ceremony.

The Jersey Trackers and the Imagination Tree Mystery is NJCB's first ever e-serial book about a club of six adventurous young readers who travel the state searching for clues to solve a mystery. Each of the eight chapters, posted weekly online, is produced by well-known New Jersey authors and illustrators. Some authors will be on-site to autograph their works: Pat Brisson, Wil Mara, Wendy Mass, Pam Swallow, and Trinka Hakes Noble.

An Exhibition of Written Word will showcase NJCB's history of literacy initiatives and will highlight the works of Walter Dean Myers, collected posthumously, as the centerpiece of the exhibition. Myers, a revolutionary thinker and author of young adult literature, redefined the young African-American male in literature for young readers.

This event is free and open to the public. The Authors’ Alley and exhibits open at 2 p.m. and the awards ceremony begins at 3 p.m. | Location: Livingston Student Center, 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ.

The Zimmerli Art Museum’s exhibition HereNow: Rutgers 250 celebrates the 250th anniversary of Rutgers—as well as the 50th birthday of the museum—by looking to the future. Rather than focus on Rutgers’ illustrious history, the initiative engages the entire university community with an opportunity to capture what education and campus life look like in the early 21st century at a major public university.

Beginning on November 10, 2015, as part of the Rutgers' community, you are invited to submit your images through the exhibit website. Images received by early January 2016 will be printed and hung as the premier images for this major exhibition at the Zimmerli. Thereafter, submitted images will be printed and installed in the museum at regular intervals, allowing the online and onsite exhibition to grow throughout the spring.

Following the close of the show, the 250 most interesting and compelling images will be compiled and published in a fine arts book with accompanying essays by distinguished authors and critics from Rutgers and beyond. The publication will document Rutgers, here and now, comprising a record of life at Rutgers at its 250th birthday through the eyes of its many communities. | Location: Submit your images online at herenow250.rutgers.edu.