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Credit: Nick Romanenko
From left to right: President Richard L.
McCormick, Professor Sang-Wook Cheong
and BOG Chairman Albert Gamper. Cheong
is the new Donald H. Jacobs Chair in
Applied Physics.
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Sang-Wook Cheong named to chair The board awarded the Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics to Sang-Wook Cheong, a professor in the department of physics and astronomy. The award recognizes senior faculty who have made distinguished accomplishments in applied physics, the branch of physics that forms the basis for modern technology. Named after a Rutgers alumnus whose gift in 1989 established the chair, it is awarded to a different faculty member every three years. Cheong is an expert in the electronic and structural properties of materials that are used in electronic and magnetic components. He is recognized for designing new materials that will speed data processing in future generations of computer chips and pack more data into disk drives. Cheong is widely published, including several papers in the journals Nature and Science. His publications are among those most cited by other researchers: He has consistently ranked among the top 20 physics authors in the ISI Science Citation Index over the past decade. Cheong earned his doctoral degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, where his studies included research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined Rutgers University in 1997, following a research career at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill.
Master of arts in psychology at Camden The board approved a new graduate degree in psychology at the Graduate School-Camden. The program will expand opportunities for graduate study of psychology in southern New Jersey and will provide an important service to the regional business and professional community.
Renovations for Wright-Rieman Chemistry Lab The board approved a concept document for renovating the Wright-Rieman Laboratory on Busch campus. Currently, $2.7 million is available for the project; the board’s committee on buildings and grounds recommended that spending authority for the project increase to $3 million if necessary.
Center for Integrative Proteomics Technologies The board approved the concept document detailing the creation of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Technologies on the Busch campus. The project estimate is $55 million.
Construction of George Street roundabout The board approved the negotiation and execution of agreements and other documents related to the construction of a George Street roundabout. The roundabout, planned for the area adjacent to Campbell Hall, Alexander Library and the College Avenue parking deck, will facilitate movement and routing of the intercampus bus system, improve vehicular access to the northbound side of Route 18, make entering and exiting the parking deck easier, and improve pedestrian safety in the busy student residence area.
Honoring women’s basketball The board congratulated the 2005-2006 women’s basketball team and its coach, C. Vivian Stringer, for an outstanding season in which Stringer won the 750th game of her career. The team completed the Big East regular season with a 16-0 record and won the conference’s regular season championship for the second consecutive year.
Baseball field renamed The board approved renaming the baseball field on Livingston campus to Bainton Field, after a $1.25 million donation from Ron and Pat Bainton. Their donation to the Rutgers University baseball program will be used to install synthetic FieldTurf®. The Bainton donation will cover 100 percent of the cost of purchase and installation. The upgrade will allow Rutgers to keep pace with other Big East schools, improving the university’s ability to attract and retain top student-athletes.
Contract awarded for law school expansion in Camden The board approved a contract awarded to Torcon Inc. of Westfield, a construction firm that bid $24,712,000 to construct an expansion at the School of Law-Camden. The board approved the concept document for the project in April 2004 and approved the amount of $31 million for the project.
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