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News & Announcements
Swine Flu Preparedness Update
Like many colleges and universities across the country, Rider has been experiencing flu-like illness among students, faculty and staff. The good news is that the numbers are still relatively small. As of the start of the spring semester, we know of 12 students across both campuses and no faculty and staff who have reported flu-like illness. That brings the total of reported flu-like illness since the start of the 2009-2010 academic year to 189 students and 41 faculty and staff. Three students were diagnosed with H1N1 (swine flu) during the fall semester; none have been diagnosed this spring semester. Procedures for dealing with these cases have proceeded as planned.
Bempéchat Discusses French Composer Jean Cras on Radio-Courtoisie
 Paul-André Bempéchat's recently recorded radio programs on Jean Cras, the impressionist composer, will air in French on Radio-Courtoisie on July 18 and 25. The radio broadcasts will be based on Bempéchat's recently published biography entitled "Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters." The broadcasts will be in French. The programs will be rebroadcast on July 19 and 26 at 1:30 p.m. EST (7:30 Central European Time.) To listen to the interview, please visit http://www.radiocourtoisie.net/tempo.
It’s Got a Nice Ring to It -- Druckenbrod says trees silently speak their stories
 Hollywood actors are notorious for lying about their ages, but trees know no such luxury. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to find anything in nature as sincere as an aging oak tree, whose true age can be determined to within a year. It’s all a matter of dendrochronology, the practice of tree-ring dating, according to Daniel Druckenbrod, Ph.D., whose study of forests and their changing environments is the subject of his research.
Eder Assists Development of New Microfinance Program in Vietnam
 How does a New Jersey-based professor end up in Southeast Asia’s Mekong Delta, helping to steer essential business costs and services to some of the poorest communities in Vietnam? For Dr. Lauren Eder, professor and chair of the Computer Information Systems department at Rider University, it’s a matter of building an economy, one fisher or farmer at a time.
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August 1 - 2
New Student Orientation
August 22
Women's Soccer vs. CW POST
August 24
Men's Soccer Scrimmage with The College of New Jersey
September 1 - 7
Westminster Fall Orientation
September 1
Men's Soccer vs. Lafayette Season Opener
Turf Field, 5 p.m.
September 5
New Student Move-In
September 6
Lawrenceville Residence Halls Open
September 7
News Student Convocation
September 8
Day and Evening Classes Begin
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