The Rider community celebrated the diverse traditions of the holiday season during its annual gathering.

Education majors at Rider work to promote autism understanding well beyond the classroom. This fall, they turned out in force to raise money for research, while promoting awareness, at the Central New Jersey Walk Now for Autism Speaks in West Windsor, N.J.

Westminster Choir College of Rider University has been awarded a $3 million gift from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation of Pittsburgh, Pa., to help support the construction of a $7.5 million new academic and performance building planned for the Westminster Choir College campus.

Always a fun warm-up to the spring baseball season, Rider baseball’s fourth annual First Pitch Dinner will be held on Saturday, January 28, at the Mercer Oaks Country Club in West Windsor, N.J. Sports columnist, author and ESPN television personality Tim Kurkjian will be the guest speaker.

The Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics welcomed top Democratic pollster and campaign strategist Mark S. Mellman for a preview of the 2012 presidential election on Thursday, December 1.

The Rider community will celebrate the diverse traditions of the holiday season during its annual gathering.