U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, the federal prosecutor for the state of New Jersey, will speak on "Restoring Faith in Government: The Fight against Political Corruption" on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater.

Dr. Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University and a noted specialist in the areas of discrimination and prejudice reduction, delivered the inaugural Marvin W. Goldstein Prejudice Reduction Lecture on Wednesday, November 7, at 8 p.m. in Rider University’s Bart Luedeke Center Theater.

In observance of Martin Luther King Day at Rider University, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will speak on the topic of “Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line” on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center (BLC) Theater. 

Kicking off Rider University’s Unity Day activities on October 9, Dr. Melissa Lacewell-Harris, associate professor of political science at Princeton University, shared her analysis of the impact of the black vote on the Democratic presidential primaries and the politics of Hurricane Katrina.

Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Holocaust scholar, will deliver the Seventh Annual Dorothy Koppelman Memorial Holocaust Lecture on Sunday, May 20 at Rider.

The husband-wife team of Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, both composers and faculty members at the New England Conservatory, will be the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows at Rider University, Monday-Friday, March 26-30.

Rider University will host a dedication ceremony for the Isaac Witkin Sculpture Park, featuring monumental outdoor sculptures from the late artist's collection installed on the University's Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses, on Monday, April 21, at 11:30 a.m. on the Lawrenceville campus.

Mercer County students in grades 4 to 12 have entered more than 400 projects to vie for honors in the 56th Mercer Science and Engineering Fair, hosted by Rider University, from Saturday, March 15, to Thursday, March 20, in the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room.

Rider University’s Hillel chapter and the Student Entertainment Council will host “Darfur Diaries,” a lecture and film program, on Tuesday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the BLC Theatre on the Lawrenceville campus.

Kristin Scott, a professional ballet dancer with the American Repertory Ballet has teamed up with Rider University’s Dance Ensemble to create the Dances for Africa fundraising events for an orphanage in Kenya. 

Dr. Myra Guitin will be participating in the 2008 Governor's Conference for Women, on Wednesday, March 5, at the Atlantic City Convention Center.

Westminster Music Theater will present Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! on Friday, February 29, at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 2, at 3 p.m. in the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School.

The Division of University Advancement has introduced an interactive Planned Giving page to its Give to Rider Web page. Planned giving is just one way to help support the University’s mission of student education and development, and this updated page details plans designed to let donors shape their philanthropic goals toward that end.

The library staff at the Talbott Library has cataloged 6,000 of the 13,000 CDs that Westminster received through the estate of John P. Murnion last year. When the process is completed, the library's holdings of LPs and CDs is expected to reach 29,000.

For the first time in its 30-year history, Rider University's School Psychology program has earned national accreditation from the prestigious National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), becoming one of only four graduate programs in the state of New Jersey to hold such distinctive national accreditation.

The Rider University Leadership Development Program sponsored a community service effort on Saturday, February 9, sending 16 students and five volunteers from Young Leaders United (YLU) to five group homes where four or five adults with disabilities live. They played board games, set up a Valentine's Day Party, made arts and crafts, and participated in other fun activities. The group homes are part of Enable, Inc., which serves disabled adults by helping them live independently in their community.

The first female All-American, the last football coach, the first NCAA track qualifier, an All-American wrestler and an All-American basketball player were inducted into the Rider University Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, January 26, in a ceremony held in the Student Recreation Center.

After nearly a year of discovery and design, Rider University has launched both a new University Web site and a new athletics Web site, and the reviews have been superlative.

Donald Steven, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, has announced the promotion of Boris Vilic from associate dean and executive director of the College of Continuing Studies (CCS) to dean of CCS.

The powerful story of an enigmatic young woman haunted by her father’s past and the shadow of her own future is told in the Pulitzer Prize winning drama Proof written by David Auburn.  Rider’s fine arts department production will run February 15, 16, 22, 23.  The curtain rises at 8 p.m. in the Yvonne Theater.  Preview performance is on February 14 at 7 p.m.

Fifteen Rider University accounting students have volunteered to offer tax help through the Internal Revenue Services’ Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program in the coming weeks to individuals who cannot afford professional tax help. 

In observance of Martin Luther King Day at Rider University, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will speak on the topic of “Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line” on Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 7 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center (BLC) Theater.

Rider University will host an exhibition entitled “Retrospective” from Thursday, January 24 to Sunday, February 24 in the Bart Luedeke Center Art Gallery on the Lawrenceville campus.