RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
COMMENCEMENT-AT-A-GLANCE
2005
THE UNIVERSITY’S 239th
ANNIVERSARY COMMENCEMENT
Wednesday, May 18 1:30 p.m.
An estimated 11,372 graduates will receive degrees from Rutgers this year. They include approximately 7,762 baccalaureate degrees and some 3,610 master’s degrees and doctorates. Location: Voorhees Mall, College Avenue campus, New Brunswick Remarks: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE (Dame of the British Empire); primatologist; founder, The Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace; recipient, honorary Doctor of Science degree; Douglass College convocation speaker (May 17). Sarita Pillai, joint degree from Rutgers College and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Class of 2005. Honorary degrees: Rutgers will present honorary degrees to six distinguished recipients: Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey (Doctor of Laws); Rita Rossi Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation (Doctor of Science); Jane Goodall, primatologist; Khotso Mokhele, president of South Africa’s National Research Foundation (Doctor of Humane Letters); actor Christopher Reeve (posthumously, Doctor of Humane Letters); and printmaker June Wayne, benefactor and visiting professor at Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts (Doctor of Fine Arts). -more-
-2- General information: All undergraduate and graduate degrees are conferred at this ceremony. The Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology in New Brunswick (50 graduate degrees) will not hold a public ceremony. Schools and colleges holding additional convocations are listed in chronological order on the following pages. NOTE: Numbers of graduates listed throughout are estimates provided by the Office of the University Registrar. IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND PISCATAWAY
EDWARD J. BLOUSTEIN SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY
Sunday, May 15 2 p.m. 106 graduate degrees (65 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals) Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., Douglass campus, New Brunswick Speaker: U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-Haddon Heights)
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES
Monday, May 16 5 p.m. 183 graduate degrees (510 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals) Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick Speaker: Natalie Morales, news anchor and correspondent, MSNBC; Rutgers College, Class of 1994
DOUGLASS COLLEGE
Tuesday, May 17 2 p.m. 704 graduates Location: Antilles Field, Douglass campus, New Brunswick Speaker: Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE; primatologist; founder, The Jane Goodall Institute and United Nations Messenger of Peace; Rutgers Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient Rain: Same day, 2 p.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway
MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Tuesday, May 17 2:30 p.m. 137 graduating seniors, 76 graduate degrees Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., Douglass campus, New Brunswick Speaker: Arthur C. Danto, professor, Columbia University; author and art critic for The Nation -more-
-3- ROTC COMMISSIONING CEREMONY
Tuesday, May 17 3 p.m. 9 Air Force and 14 Army second lieutenants to be commissioned Location: Rutgers Student Center Multipurpose Room, 126 College Ave., New Brunswick Speaker: Brig. Gen. Maria Falca-Dodson, deputy adjutant general of New Jersey
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND LABOR RELATIONS
Tuesday, May 17 7 p.m. 121 graduate degrees (105 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals) Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick Speakers: Members of the Class of 2005 and their programs – Melissa Falciani, Raleigh, N.C., Master of Human Resource Management; Christopher Young, New Brunswick, Master of Labor and Employment Relations; and Delia Foster, Neptune, Bachelor of Labor and Employment Relations
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Tuesday, May 17 7 p.m. 365 undergraduate joint degrees (recipients are also counted in their college totals) Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway Speaker: Dennis M. Bone, president, Verizon New Jersey, Newark; MBA, Rutgers, 1984
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Thursday, May 19 9 a.m 314 graduates (290 master’s, 20 doctorates, four specialist) Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick Speaker: Pedro Noguera, professor, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Thursday, May 19 9:30 a.m. 399 graduates Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway Speaker: Peter D. Cherasia, chief information officer and director of e-commerce, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., New York; College of Engineering, Class of 1984
RUTGERS COLLEGE
Thursday, May 19 1:15 p.m. 2,402 graduates Location: Voorhees Mall, College Avenue, New Brunswick Speaker: Mario Batali, chef, restaurateur, host on The Food Network; Rutgers College, Class of 1982; member, Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni (2004) Rain: Friday, May 20, 1:15 p.m., Voorhees Mall (if rain, 1:15 p.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway) -more-
Thursday, May 19 1:30 p.m. 916 graduates Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway Speaker: Karen Rogers Lee, reporter, WPVI (Ch. 6), Philadelphia; Class of 1992 and recipient of Livingston College Seth Dvorin ’02 Distinguished Young Alumni Award (2004)
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Thursday, May 19 3 p.m. 260 master’s degrees Location: Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., Douglass campus, New Brunswick Speaker: Nancy Randolph, director emerta, Division of Standards and Accreditation, Council on Social Work Education; professor, Howard University; education consultant
COOK COLLEGE
Friday, May 20 10 a.m. 519 graduates Location: Lawn near College Pond (“Passion Puddle”), Cook campus, New Brunswick Speaker: Dr. Peter A. Seligmann, chairman and CEO, Conservation International, Washington, D.C.; College of Agriculture, Class of 1972; recipient of George H. Cook Distinguished Alumni Award; Rutgers honorary degree recipient, 2003 Rain: Same day, 10:30 a.m., Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway
ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Friday, May 20 10 a.m. 180 Pharm.D. degrees Location: College Avenue Gymnasium, 130 College Ave., New Brunswick Speaker: George B. Abercrombie, president and CEO, Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-NEW BRUNSWICK
Saturday, May 21 10 a.m. 712 graduates Location: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Livingston campus, Piscataway Speaker: The Rev. Dr. M. William Howard Jr., pastor, Bethany Baptist Church, Newark; member, Rutgers Board of Governors -more-
-5- IN NEWARK
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Thursday, May 19 10 a.m. 94 graduates Location: Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St. Speaker: Dr.Yvonne Wesley, vice president of community relations, Meridian Health, Neptune; Master of Science, Class of 1993.
Joint Convocation:
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 835 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-NEWARK 184 graduates Thursday, May 19 4 p.m. Location: Norman Samuels Plaza Speaker: Gustav Heningburg, social activist and journalist Rain: Announcement will be made by 2 p.m. whether NCAS ceremony will be moved into the Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St., and UC ceremony will be moved into the Multipurpose Room of the Paul Robeson Campus Center, 350 MLK Jr. Blvd. Call (973) 353-1766 or check the Web site
RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL-NEWARK AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Friday, May 20 10 a.m. 480 graduate degrees (300 undergraduate joint degrees are counted in their college totals) Location: Norman Samuels Plaza Speaker: Ralph Izzo, president and chief operating officer, Public Service Electric and Gas Co., Newark; MBA, Rutgers, 2002. Rain: Same day and time, Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St.
Joint Convocation:
GRADUATE SCHOOL-NEWARK 278 graduates
SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE 21 graduates Friday, May 20 3 p.m. Location: Norman Samuels Plaza Speaker: George Kelling, professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice Rain: Same day and time, Golden Dome Athletic Center, 42 Warren St. -more-
-6- SCHOOL OF LAW-NEWARK
Friday, May 27 10 a.m. 234 graduates Location: New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center St. Speaker: U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez (D-Union City), Class of 1979
IN CAMDEN
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-CAMDEN
Friday, May 20 10 a.m. 228 undergraduate degrees, 75 advanced degrees Location: Grounds of Paul Robeson Library, Fourth and Penn streets Speaker: Rick Forman, founder and CEO, Forman Mills Inc., Pennsauken, N.J. Rain: 10 a.m., Rutgers-Camden Gymnasium, Third Street between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge
SCHOOL OF LAW-CAMDEN
Friday, May 20 1 p.m. 277 graduates Location: Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, 1 Harbour Blvd. Speaker: The Honorable Michael Chertoff, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Joint Convocation:
CAMDEN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 514 graduates
GRADUATE SCHOOL-CAMDEN 137 graduates
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE-CAMDEN 115 graduates Friday, May 20 6 p.m. Location: Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, 1 Harbour Blvd. Speaker: U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews (D-Haddon Heights)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The latest information on commencement can be found at
Contact: Steve Manas, Rutgers Office of Media Relations, (732) 932-7084, extension 612
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