All students are invited to participate in Rider University’s Independent Scholarship & Creative Activities Presentations (ISCAP) Day on Wednesday, May 4, 2011.

Junior Meghan Mende earned a coveted weeklong internship at New York’s Fashion Week that left her well-suited for a career in event planning.

Dr. Matthew Boyd Goldie has been awarded a McColl Research Fellowship from the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. There, he will explore how the British Isles were considered in contrast to other landmasses in the 13th through 15th centuries, as well as the perceived effects of their insularity on their civilizations and cultures.

The high-tech educational landscape of tomorrow is being plotted today in Rider’s School of Education.

Rider will proudly bestow honorary degrees upon Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Martin L. Perl and Sears Holdings Corporation executive Sam A. Solomon ’90 at its 146th Commencement ceremonies. Composer Stephen Paulus will receive an honorary doctorate at Commencement exercises for the Westminster Choir College.

The program highlights alumni in patent law, environmental science and library science.