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In 2012, UMDNJ merged with Rutgers by act of the New Jersey state legislature, creating the Rutgers School of Biomedical and Health Sciences. In 2016, President Barack Obama spoke at the university commencement. The following year Steven Van Zandt was the commencement speaker and received an honorary doctorate in the fine arts.
Henry Rutgers (October 7, 1745 – February 17, 1830) [1] was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York City. Rutgers University was named after him, and he donated a bond which placed the college on sound financial footing. He also gave a bell that is still in use.
The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (1902–1971), a wealthy benefactor, who unexpectedly donated $10 million to the university for biological research at his death in 1971. The campus was formerly known as "University Heights Campus" and the land was donated to the university by the state in the 1930s.
Rutgers University (/ ˈ r ʌ t ɡ ər z / RUT-gərz), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College , [ 10 ] and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church .
The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) / ˈ r ʌ t ɡ ər z / is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 as Queen's College and was the eighth-oldest of nine colleges ...
After serving presidents and royalty, Nikola has found the right fit with the Scarlet Knights. “It’s all about love,” Nikola said. “It’s all about family.
Matthew Leydt (A.B. 1774), Rutgers' first alumnus and Dutch-Reformed Minister; William P. Merrill (D.D. 1904), first president on the Church Peace Union, writer of "Rise Up, O Men of God" Michael Plekon (Master's in Sociology and Religion 1977), priest, author, sociologist and theologian
The roots of Rutgers–Newark date back to 1908 when the New Jersey Law School first opened its doors. That law school, along with four other educational institutions in Newark—Dana College (founded in 1927), Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences (founded in 1909), Seth Boyden School of Business (founded 1929), and Mercer Beasley School of Law (founded 1926)—would form a series of ...