March 2008
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| RUTGERS' E-NEWSLETTER FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS |
| This is an exciting time in your life and an exciting time for Rutgers. Our students, faculty, and programs are winning awards and receiving national recognition. Our students accomplish amazing feats that benefit our community and the world. We want to share our success stories with you while giving you an inside look at Rutgers. |
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In This Issue...
RU Student in Thailand Combats Human Trafficking
Engineering Students Solve Problems with Imaginative Designs
Summer Program for Mathematically Talented
Career-Driven Students Shadow Alumnae
Student Interpreters Help New Brunswick Patients
News Flashes
Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
RU Students Impress Gates Foundation
Get Your Parents Hooked on Rutgers!
Tell Us What You Think |
RU Student in Thailand Combats Human Trafficking
Rutgers senior Daniel Christopher traveled to Thailand for one month with Global Pact, an organization founded at Rutgers that helps young people from different countries work on cross-cultural solutions to community and global problems. He and 25 other students learned about the complexities of human trafficking. More
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Engineering Students Solve Problems with Imaginative Designs
A cart that guides shoppers in GPS fashion to grocery shelves, a vending machine that alerts suppliers to restock items, and a system that remotely assesses the health of an elderly person living alone are just some of this year's projects designed by senior industrial and systems engineering students.
Each year, senior engineering students spend their spring and fall semesters coming up with creative solutions to common, everyday problems and put their work on display and make their case to fellow students, alumni, family members and industry recruiters. More
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Summer Program for Mathematically Talented
Math fans unite! The Rutgers Young Scholars Program in Discrete Mathematics is a summer program for mathematically talented high school students. The four-week residential academic program provides a challenging introduction to discrete mathematics -- a new and growing area of the mathematical sciences with many applications to modern research.
Program details and application kits are available at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/ysp or by calling 732-445-2825.
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Career-Driven Students Shadow Alumnae
Not sure what career to pursue? You're not alone. Most students do not have definite plans and are anxious about their uncertainties. Rutgers offers a solution.
Women students who are part of the Douglass Residential Community can spend winter and spring breaks learning about careers by shadowing a professional who is a Douglass alumna through the Douglass Extern Program. The program offers opportunities in art, science, law, health, communications, and education. More
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Student Interpreters Help New Brunswick Patients
Rutgers students can polish their Spanish skills while making sure that New Brunswick doctors and their Hispanic patients understand each other through the New Brunswick Community Interpreter Project.
Trained Rutgers students translate English to Spanish and back again for medical staff and patients at local hospitals and clinics. Most get paid through work-study funds, while others get academic credit or internship status. More
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News Flashes
Four Rutgers professors recently named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More
Rutgers students appear on NBC 's TODAY to discuss youth vote. More
Rutgers graduate Junot Diaz makes a splash with his first novel featuring many Rutgers locales and details. More
Business School offers hot new course: Love and Money. More
Football stadium expansion approved. More
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Create Your Rutgers Info Packet
Want a quick overview of the major(s) you're considering? Want to learn more about some of our student organizations? Create your own customized brochure according to your interests. You can create one now by visiting http://infopacket.admissions.rutgers.edu
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Michael Hayoun
Margate, NJ
Suzanne Pilaar
Haledon, NJ
Brian Spatocco
Sewell. NJ |
RU Students Impress Gates Foundation
Three Rutgers University students are among 45 graduating seniors nationwide to earn prestigious scholarships from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Rutgers students received more Gates scholarships this year than students at any public university in the United States.
Among the 33 universities in the United States to have Gates scholars this year, only Harvard University, with four recipients, has more than Rutgers. Eight other universities, including Princeton, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have two recipients each.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarships, established in 2000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, cover all fees and living expenses for a student’s full-time master’s or doctoral studies at Cambridge, one of the oldest and most esteemed universities in the English-speaking world. Depending on the student’s program of study, a scholarship’s value could exceed $50,000 annually for one to four years.
Rutgers’ 2008 Gates Cambridge Scholars are Michael Hayoun of Margate, N.J., majoring in cell biology and neuroscience and in psychology, with a certificate in behavioral pharmacology; Suzanne Pilaar of Haledon, N.J., majoring in paleoecology and in evolutionary anthropology; and Brian Spatocco of Sewell, N.J., majoring in materials science and engineering.
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Tell Us What You Think
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