The Redbeds Annual Newsletter, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of NJ Vol. 13: January 2009 http://geology.rutgers.edu/ Editor: Kenneth G. Miller (
[email protected]) Welcome to the 2009 Redbeds The Redbeds is the annual newsletter of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (formerly Geological Sciences) with reports on research, students, awards, funding, and comings and goings. Sent to over 700 alumni, the Redbeds is our primary means of informing alumni, friends, and colleagues of our recent accomplishments. Please write to us and tell us of your activities! Visit our alumni website http://geology.rutgers.edu/alumni.shtml Bennett L. Smith Chair joint with Rutgers Business School Contributed by Kenneth G. Miller and Richard K. Olsson proximity of a major flagship state university Rutgers has received $13 million, the largest to business centers makes this a unique private donation in its history, to construct a building for the opportunity. Rutgers Business School (RBS) on the Livingston Campus and to endow a chair shared between the Department of Bennett Smith was a faculty member in the Geology Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) and RBS. The Department from 1951 to 1974 (the year he retired). A anonymous donation allocates $3 million for the Bennett L. Canadian, he worked for many years as a geologist for the Smith Endowed Chair in Business and Natural Resources. Sylvanite Gold Mines, Ltd. of Ontario in the Shield region, a EPS/School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) and the RBS will be producer of gold, silver, cobalt, nickel and other minerals.