Mark Dixon, founder of YERT – Your Environmental Road Trip – will share his experiences from his yearlong eco-expedition through all 50 United States as the keynote speaker for Rider’s Earth Day 2011 celebration.

Dr. Frank Rusciano has gone to great lengths to bring an international perspective to students at Rider. Now, as the recipient of the Fulbright – University of Ulster Policy Studies Award from the Fulbright Foundation, Rusciano will once again take his own experiences overseas – this time, to Northern Ireland.

Brendan T. Byrne says that the office of the governor of New Jersey is the most powerful such executive office in the United States, and that’s a good thing as long as the governor wants to be an agent for change. “Otherwise, why run for office?” asked Byrne, who visited Rider for a witty and insightful Q&A session on April 14 as part of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics’ Governing New Jersey series.

Jessica Panzarella '11 landed the dream job as a traveling leadership Consultant (TLC), criss-crossing the nation, all expenses paid, to visit the different Sisterhoods of Zeta Tau Alpha.

The new Center for Distance Learning and Teaching, which promises an efficient and coordinated streamlining of Rider’s online educational efforts for both faculty and students, will offer an Open House on April 19 in the Bristol Myers Squibb Center.

Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts will host Rider Presents, a musical theater performance workshop for New Jersey high school students, on Tuesday, April 26.