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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 .
[3] [7] Rutgers, a descendant of an old Dutch family that had settled in New Amsterdam (now New York City), gave the fledgling college a $200 bell that hangs from the cupola of the Old Queen's building; then later in 1826 he donated the interest on a $5,000 bond. This second donation finally gave the college the sound financial footing it had ...
Rutgers University is home to chapters of many Greek organizations; however, only a small percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. Several fraternities and sororities maintain houses for their chapters in the area of Union Street (known as "Frat Row") in New Brunswick within blocks of Rutgers' College Avenue Campus.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick is one of three regional campuses of Rutgers University, a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. It is located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. It is the oldest campus of the university, the others being in Camden and Newark.
Washington and his forces retreated through New Jersey after surrendering New York City in November 1776, passing through New Brunswick with the British following close behind. The Queens Campus contains the historic core of the Rutgers University community and houses the offices of the university's president and key administrative posts.
Six Rutgers University students and one alum were charged this week with running a sophisticated drug ring — and allegedly used a “private social media network” to sell narcotics to fellow ...
The octagonal building of the observatory was designed after the Tower of the Winds (pictured) in Athens, Greece. In 1864, Rutgers College [a] was named New Jersey's sole land grant college which provided federal funding under the Morrill Act of 1862 for the development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education.
Stoianovich was for four decades a teacher of European and world history at Rutgers University. He has also taught at New York University, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and Sir George Williams University (renamed Concordia University) in Montreal, Canada. He taught at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1958-1959 ...