Tag: Rutgers University

Posted on

AS MORE NJ STUDENTS GO HUNGRY, MORE COLLEGES OPEN FOOD PANTRIES

NR11RutgersSign2775_2

TARA NURIN | SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Amid growing recognition that some students are going hungry, Rutgers-New Brunswick is the latest university in New Jersey to open a food pantry

Ramen noodles. Priced around 13 cents a bag, they’ve been a staple of college life for decades, helping the archetypal “starving student” afford tuition, housing, books, and the occasional beer. But the typical shrug in reaction to this paradigm is giving way to real concern as institutions of higher learning realize that hunger on campus is a serious problem that’s hurting students’ ability to learn.

This summer, Rutgers University-New Brunswick became the latest of at least five New Jersey colleges and universities — and more than 300 nationally — to install a free food pantry on campus. So far, about 30 students have taken advantage of Rutgers’ non-perishable goods. But the need is far greater.

https://www.njspotlight.com/stories/16/09/26/as-more-nj-students-go-hungry-more-colleges-open-food-pantries/?utm_content=New%20Campaign&utm_campaign=Observer_NJ_Politics&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=New%20Jersey%20Politics

Posted on

Brianna Alexandra Patek of Ridgewood High School will present a research project at the 2016 Research Symposium of the New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering & Technology at Rutgers University

Health-Monitoring Wearables
July 21,2016

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Brianna Alexandra Patek, of Ridgewood High School will present  a research project Friday at the 2016 Research Symposium of the New Jersey Governor’s School of Engineering & Technology at Rutgers University’s Busch campus in Piscataway. Patek will be joining 80 of her peers in presenting the results of their respective research projects.

11:20 AM – 11:40 AM Health-Monitoring Wearables Amy Liang, Brianna Patek, Sruthi Srinivasan, Eileen Wang, Andrew Zheng

The introduction of the final symposium from 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM in the Allison Road Classroom Building Room 103 on Rutgers’ Busch Campus (directions at the end of this invitation). (Visitors on the day of the symposium may park in Lots 51, 59, 60B, and 67 without permits.

Links to the parking lots are at the bottom of this document). Light refreshments will be served.  Students’ research presentations will run from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM concurrently in three locations: the Computing Research and Education (CoRE) Building Auditorium, located on the first floor of the CoRE Building; the Easton Hub Auditorium, located in the Fiber Optic Materials Research Building; and the CAIT Auditorium, located in the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation Building.

The schedule of presentations from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM there will be a one hour break for individuals to examine the final project results in the Life Sciences Building Atrium

Posted on

American killed in Mali grew up in North Jersey, worked to improve global health

12247791_1714414262121826_2417690940545415933_o

courtesy of Facebook Anita Datar

NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 9:01 AM    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2015, 11:51 PM
BY JOHN SEASLY
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

A 41-year-old former Peace Corps volunteer and global-health specialist is the latest person with roots in North Jersey to become a victim of global terror.

Anita Ashok Datar, a graduate of Mount Olive High School and Rutgers University, was one of at least 19 people killed in Friday’s terror attack on a hotel in Mali, the State Department confirmed in a statement.

No other U.S. citizens were believed to have died in the attack, carried out by heavily armed Islamic extremists at a Radisson hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako.

Related:   New blow to France; 20 killed in attack on hotel in Mali, a former colony

Datar, a resident of Takoma Park, Md., was the mother of a 7-year-old boy. She devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said.

“We are devastated that Anita is gone,” her family said in a statement issued through the State Department. “It’s unbelievable to us that she has been killed in this senseless act of violence and terrorism.”

 

https://www.northjersey.com/news/american-killed-in-mali-grew-up-in-north-jersey-worked-to-improve-global-health-1.1460205

Posted on

Analysis: Weaker oversight gives N.J. public colleges greater power to chart their agendas

rutgers

JULY 19, 2015    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2015, 12:35 AM
BY PATRICIA ALEX
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

Kean University is launching an expensive architecture program, largely tailored to foreign students, at its Union campus despite another public one just 6 miles away at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

The technology institute, virtually across the street from Rutgers Medical School in Newark, is considering partnering with Rowan University, just south of Philadelphia, to train doctors.

A new public business school is opening in Jersey City even as others in nearby Newark and Montclair are spending millions to beef up their programs.

If it seems like there’s no statewide plan for higher education in New Jersey, it’s because there isn’t, and recent decisions by the schools have raised questions about whether weak state oversight has allowed for expensive and duplicative projects that have helped make the state home to some of the highest public tuitions in the nation.

The politically appointed boards that run the state-subsidized colleges and universities have a degree of autonomy unheard of in most other states. And with no resistance from state officials, the boards have approved costly and controversial projects.

Stockton University bought an $18 million former casino it is now unable to use; Montclair State University agreed to spend $250,000 on a statue of its mascot and Kean purchased a multimedia conference table from China for $219,000, prompting a state investigation.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/analysis-weaker-oversight-gives-n-j-public-colleges-greater-power-to-chart-their-agendas-1.1376906