Rutgers University

The School of Arts and Sciences is an undergraduate constituent school at the New Brunswick-Piscataway area campus of Rutgers University. Established... in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the non-student college known as the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," the School of Arts and Sciences was implemented to centralize and consolidate undergraduate education at the university, focusing on providing one set of admissions and graduation requirements and imposing a universal core curriculum. Previously, the undergraduate colleges offering liberal arts majors, Rutgers College , Cook College , Douglass College , University College , and Livingston College maintained disparate standards for admission, graduation and curriculum. Cook College was renamed the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the time of the 2007 merger.
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Rutgers School of Law–Camden is a public law school of Rutgers University located in Camden, New Jersey on the Delaware Waterfront. It is one... of two law schools of Rutgers University and one of only three law schools in the state of New Jersey. The law school is located on the main campus of Rutgers-Camden, just 3 miles away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via the immediately neighboring Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Originally opened in 1926 as "South Jersey Law School" by Arthur E. Armitage, Sr., and an interested group of citizens, the law school merged with Rutgers University in 1950. The school is approved by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Students are graduates of 140 different colleges and universities. The school consistently ranks in the top tier of law schools in the nation and is currently ranked 99th among the Top 100 law schools in the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Graduate Schools", but has ranked higher in previous years . The school's legal writing program is ranked 11th in the nation by U.S.
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Rutgers Business School is the graduate and undergraduate business school located on the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It... was founded in 1929. Rutgers Business School offers bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees. It offers Master of Business Administration degrees with Finance, Supply Chain Management, Pharmaceutical Management, Marketing, Market Research, Management, and Information systems specializations. A concentration in Entrepreneurship was added to the curriculum in 2009. The Rutgers Business School also offers a 14-month MBA in Public Accounting and a masters degree in Quantitative Finance . In 2009 RBS opened a new facility in the first 11 stories of downtown Newark's 1 Washington Park office building. Home to the full time and Executive MBA programs, the MQF program, and the Newark undergraduate program, 1 Washington Park is centrally located near highways and public transportation and is less than 20 minutes from New York's Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan via NJ Transit railroad. In 2011 RBS broke ground on a new school building located on the New Brunswick/Livingston Campus.
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Rutgers School of Law–Newark is the oldest of three law schools in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located at the S.I. Newhouse Center for... Law and Justice, at 123 Washington Street, in downtown Newark. Founded in 1908 as the New Jersey Law School, it merged with the University of Newark in 1936, which later became part of Rutgers University. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association; is a member of the Association of American Law Schools; and is registered with the Board of Regents of the State of New York. On September 9, 2008, the law school celebrated its centennial. The J.D. program at Rutgers requires a total of 84 credits to graduate. The 1L curriculum requires traditional courses in Torts, Contracts, Property, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Legal Research & Writing. Second semester 1Ls are also required to choose an elective. All required 1L courses are graded on a standard B-curve. Rutgers ensures that students have a 'small section' class as 1Ls, taking one core class taught by a tenured faculty member and limited to the roughly 30 people in a student's track .
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The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is a constituent school within Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's flagship New... Brunswick-Piscataway campus. Formerly known as Cook College—which was named for George Hammell Cook, a professor at Rutgers in the 19th Century—it was founded as the Rutgers Scientific School and later College of Agriculture after Rutgers was named New Jersey's land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862. Today, unlike the other arts and sciences schools at Rutgers, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences specializes in environmental science, animal science and other life sciences. Although physically attached to the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, most of the SEBS campus lies in North Brunswick, New Jersey. The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is also home to the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, the New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station and the Rutgers Gardens, a 50-acre botanical garden.
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Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents in... Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his smoking caused him to have a heart attack at the early age of 36; from which he fully recovered. His novel about the Battle of Gettysburg, The Killer Angels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Shaara died of another heart attack in 1988. Shaara's son, Jeffrey Shaara, is also a popular writer of historical fiction; most notably sequels to his father's best-known novel. His most famous is the prequel to The Killer Angels, Gods and Generals.
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Selman Abraham Waksman was a Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms... that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered over twenty antibiotics and introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. The proceeds earned from the licensing of his patents funded a foundation for microbiological research, which established the Waksman Institute of Microbiology located on Rutgers University's Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey . In 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition "for his discovery of "streptomycin," the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis." In 2005 Selman Waksman was designated an ACS National Historical Chemical Landmark in recognition of the significant work of his lab in isolating more than fifteen antibiotics, including streptomycin, which was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis.
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Judea Pearl is an Israeli American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial... intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks . He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models . He is the 2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning." Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by militants in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his being American and Jewish. Judea Pearl was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1936 and received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion in 1960. In 1960 he came to the United States and received a masters degree in Physics from Rutgers University, U.S. and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, U.S., in 1965.
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Milton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades. He was a... recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and is known for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilization policy. As a leader of the Chicago school of economics, he influenced the research agenda of the economics profession. A survey of economists ranked Friedman as the second most popular economist of the twentieth century behind John Maynard Keynes, and The Economist described him as "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it." Friedman's challenges to what he later called "naive Keynesian" theory began with his 1950s reinterpretation of the consumption function, and he became the main advocate opposing activist Keynesian government policies. In the late 1960s he described his own approach as using "Keynesian language and apparatus" yet rejecting its "initial" conclusions.
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David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer... Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois . He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain. Lewis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr., graduated from Yale University School of Divinity and received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and was principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. His mother taught high school math. Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School in Ohio. When the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T.
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Selman Abraham Waksman was a Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist whose research into organic substances—largely into organisms... that live in soil—and their decomposition promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. A professor of biochemistry and microbiology at Rutgers University for four decades, he discovered over twenty antibiotics and introduced procedures that have led to the development of many others. The proceeds earned from the licensing of his patents funded a foundation for microbiological research, which established the Waksman Institute of Microbiology located on Rutgers University's Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey . In 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition "for his discovery of "streptomycin," the first antibiotic active against tuberculosis." In 2005 Selman Waksman was designated an ACS National Historical Chemical Landmark in recognition of the significant work of his lab in isolating more than fifteen antibiotics, including streptomycin, which was the first effective treatment for tuberculosis.
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Saharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New... Jersey. Shelah was born in Jerusalem on July 3, 1945. He is the son of the Israeli poet and political activist Yonatan Ratosh. He received his PhD in 1969 from the Hebrew University. Shelah is married to Yael, and has three children. Shelah is one of the most prolific contemporary mathematicians. As of 2012, he has published around 1000 mathematical papers . His main interests lie in mathematical logic, model theory in particular, and in axiomatic set theory. In model theory, he developed the classification theory, which led him to a solution of Morley's problem. In set theory, he invented the notion of proper forcing, an important tool in iterated forcing arguments. With PCF theory, he showed that in spite of the undecidability of the most basic questions of cardinal arithmetic , there are still highly nontrivial ZFC theorems about cardinal exponentiation.
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David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer... Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois . He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. The author of eight books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa, twentieth-century France, and Islamic Spain. Lewis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr., graduated from Yale University School of Divinity and received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago, and was principal of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. His mother taught high school math. Lewis attended parochial school in Little Rock, then Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School in Ohio. When the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T.
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