President Rozanski announces the establishment of a new college – the Westminster College of the Arts – integrating and extending Rider’s commitment to the fine and performing arts on its Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses.

More than 400 proud family members, faculty and administrators jammed the Bart Luedeke Center Theatre on Saturday, November 3, to honor the 2007 Andrew J. Rider Scholars during the Founder's Day Celebration. Provost Donald Steven presided as master of ceremonies for the event that served as one of the grand highlights of an enormously successful Parents Weekend that brought more than 1,500 guests to the Lawrenceville campus.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- “Harry I Naar: Landscapes & Still Lifes – Drawings & Paintings,” featuring the work of Rider’s professor of fine arts and director of the Rider University Art Gallery, will run through Saturday, November 24, at the Bowery Gallery in New York City. An opening reception for Naar will take place Saturday, November 3 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Bowery Gallery is located at 530 West 25th Street on the fourth floor.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- The Julius and Dorothy Koppeman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at Rider University and the Rider University Campus Ministry will host its annual Kristallnacht program on Thursday, November 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Gill Chapel on the Lawrenceville campus.

A special highlight of Rider’s Family Day on Saturday, November 3 is the Founder’s Day awards ceremony, a tradition that honors Rider’s top students as Andrew J. Rider Scholars.

On Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27, Westminster Choir College will celebrate its Family Weekend on the Princeton campus, and Rider’s Lawrenceville campus will hold its annual Family Day festivities on November 3.

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

LAWRENCVILLE -- James C. McCloskey, founder and executive director of Centurion Ministries, Inc., will present the Law and Justice Program’s 12th Annual Distinguished Award Lecture, on Tuesday, October 23, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Cavalla Room of the Bart Luedeke Center.

To kick off Rider University’s 10th annual Unity Day, Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University, will address the impact of the black vote on the Clinton-Obama presidential race on Tuesday, October 9. Rider’s Unity Day theme is “Many Cultures, One Student Body.”

LAWRENCEVILLE – Rider University and the Clergy of Lawrence Township (COLT) will host CROP Hunger Walk on Sunday, September 30, to raise money for those affected by poverty and catastrophe. 

LAWRENCEVILLE -- President Mordechai Rozanski recently announced that three prominent business leaders have been elected to serve three-year terms on Rider University’s Board of Trustees.

Veteran broadcast journalist Chris Wallace will kick off the fall 2007 academic year at Rider University on Tuesday, September 25, presenting A View from Washington at 7:30 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ed Gwazda, formerly executive director of Princeton Healthcare System Foundation, and Daniel Higgins, formerly executive director of University Relations for Kean University, have been appointed to two key Rider University posts. 

LAWRENCEVILLE -- High school and middle school students will relive the world of Shakespeare as Rider University hosts “Shakesperience: NJ” on Wednesday, May 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

LAWWRENCEVILLE  --  Dr. Mickey Hess, assistant professor of English at Rider University, is author of "Icons of Hip Hop:  An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture," a two-volume edited collection, which was published by Greenwood Press last month. An avid fan of hip hop music, he explore how the music has broken new ground musically and politically.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- More than a year in the making, this year’s Reunion Weekend (June 15-17) promises to deliver events and activities for alumni, friends and families of all ages and interests.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- Dr. Ibrahim Saleh, a professor of mass communications at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, will speak on “Stereotypes in U.S. and Arab Media and Their Effects on Civil Society,” on Wednesday, May 30 at Rider University.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- 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 University.

LAWRENCEVILLE  – Terry McAulliffe, immediate past chair of the Democratic National Committee and chair of the Hillary Clinton for President Committee, and Ed Gillespie, immediate past chair of the Republican National Committee, will kick off the campaign season with a point-counterpoint debate at Rider University’s Bart Luedeke Center Theater on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. The debate is free and open to the public.

LAWRENCEVILLE  -- Rider’s National Model United Nations (NMUN) Team 2007 brought home two awards last month at the National Collegiate Conference Association’s annual competition – Outstanding Position Papers and Distinguished Delegation.

Lawrenceville -- Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer, Dr. Randal Pinkett, winner of the “The Apprentice Season Four” television show, and 34 Rider University students will support Trenton area junior high school students as they test their entrepreneurial skills at the 11th annual Minding Our Business (MOB) Market Fair on Saturday, March 31.

Lawrenceville  -- Westminster Music Theater will present Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” on Friday, March 30 at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 31 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m. in the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School.  

LAWRENCEVILLE – Discussions with Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, composers and faculty members at the New England Conservatory, a student global village, global business panel discussion, and the showcasing of Chinese language, international student programs and study abroad opportunities are among the highlights of Rider University’s International Week, March 26-30.

Seven Rider University students will spend their time in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic doing community service for two children’s orphanages and schools.

Westminster Professor of Sacred Music Robin Leaver has been honored with the publication of the festschrift, "Music and Theology: Essays in Honor of Robin A. Leaver."

Rider University will host the 55th Mercer Science and Engineering Fair in the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room, March 10-15, 2007.

Rider University dance students, alumni, and two faculty members will be among the performers to showcase their talent on Saturday, March 3 and Sunday, March 4.

Westminster Opera Theater will present the second staged performance in the United States of G. F. Handel’s opera “Oreste” on Tuesday, March 6 through Friday, March 9 at 8 p.m. in the Playhouse on the Westminster campus in Princeton.

Through a $17,900 grant from the Barnegat Bay National Estuary Program (BBNEP), Dr. Paul Jivoff, assistant professor of biology at Rider University, will advance his study on the effect bulkheads have on Barnegat Bay’s ecology by comparing natural versus bulkheaded shorelines throughout the bay this summer.

Nicholas Wade, a long-time columnist for “The New York Times” Science Times section and author of “Before the Dawn:  Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors,” will speak about will speak about his book and the evolution of man on Monday, March 5 at 5 p.m. in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater.  The event is free and open to the public.

For the past two months, Dr. Jack Sullivan, professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Rider University, has enjoyed significant national and international media exposure for his new book, "Hitchcock's Music" (Yale University Press 2006).

Dr. Ronald Cook, professor of entrepreneurial studies, director of the Small Business Institute and the Rider Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Rider University, received the prestigious Fellow Award from the Small Business Institute (SBI) Association at its recent national conference.

A Rider University Small Business Institute (SBI) team has again placed in the top 10 in the National Small Business Institute student consulting case-of-the-year competition, this year in the graduate division.

The landscape paintings of W. Carl Burger, one of New Jersey’s leading artists and professor emeritus of art at Kean University, will be featured in the exhibition, “Watercolors: New Jersey Landscapes,” Thursday, January 25 through Thursday, February 22 at the Rider University Art Gallery.

LAWRENCEVILLE – Dr. Kelly Bidle of Lawrenceville, an associate professor of biology at Rider University, has received a three-year, $298,850 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Genes and Genomes program to support her research examining how microorganisms adapt to and survive in extreme environments.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- Rider University has embarked on a new initiative to promote sustainability, energy conservation and efficiency on its Lawrenceville and Princeton campuses.

LAWRENCEVILLE – With 2006 behind us, tax planning now focuses on 2007.  But should certain taxpayers already be planning for 2008, 2009 and 2010?  According to Alan R. Sumutka, associate professor of accounting at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, some taxpayers should.

LAWRENCEVILLE  --  A Rider University Small Business Institute (SBI) team has again placed in the top 10 in National Small Business Institute student consulting case-of-the-year competition, this year in the graduate division.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- For the past two months Dr. Jack Sullivan, professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Rider University, has enjoyed significant national and international media exposure for his new book, “Hitchcock’s Music” (Yale University Press 2006).

LAWRENCEVILLE  -- ”The Impact of B.LA.C.K.” (Building Legacies Advocating Cultural Knowledge)”is the theme of Rider University’s month-long tribute to Black History Month on its Lawrenceville and Westminster Choir College campuses.

LAWRENCEVILLE -- Nineteenth century playwright Oscar Wilde’s downfall 100 years ago will be recaptured by 21 Rider University students in Rider’s upcoming production of “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.”

Sixteen Rider University accounting students have volunteered to offer tax help in the coming weeks to individuals who cannot afford professional tax help through the Internal Revenue Services’ Volunteer Return Preparation Program (VRPP).

There will be a memorial service for Dr. Richard R. Alexander, chair of the department of geological, environmental, and marine sciences, who passed away December 11, on Friday, January 26 at 3 p.m. in Gill Chapel on the Rider campus. 

LAWRENCEVILLE -- The landscape paintings of W. Carl Burger, one of New Jersey’s leading artists and professor emeritus of art at Kean University, will be featured in the exhibition, “Watercolors: New Jersey Landscapes,” Thursday, January 25 through Thursday, February 22 at the Rider University Art Gallery.