NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Students headed to the Fordham Commons area of the Mabel Smith library in Rutgers New Brunswick have been intrigued by the sight of two recently-installed Makerbot 3-D printers.
A sign nearby indicated that the printers would be open to students starting today, Monday April 14.
The attached computers are equipped with software that allow users will to design their own three-dimsenional objects that the printer can produce out of plastic material.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—New Brunswick Tomorrow, one of the city's most prominent non-profit agencies, is moving forward with a project to improve a large swath of the Hub City.
The area, which stretches from Somerset Street to Livingston Avenue in the city's Fourth and Fifth Wards, is being dubbed the "Esperanza" neighborhood by the agency.
The word is Spanish for "hope."
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Wednesday morning New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill ate breakfast with an excited third-grade class at Paul Robeson Community School in the city's Second Ward.
His visit was prompted by the success and expansion of the city’s Breakfast After the Bell initiative that began in September 2013.
Breakfast initiatives have been attempted in city previously, but Breakfast After the Bell seems to be finally getting it right.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Recently, three Rutgers alums have closed a deal from Intel for the acquisition of their creation, a website and program that oversees the administration and smooth operation of events dubbed as "Hackathons".
Founded in October 2011, Hacker League's mission statement summarized their program as "mobilizing a worldwide community of developers-at-large to hack our planet for the better."
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Cory Booker, United States senator from New Jersey, hosted a roundtable event for female small business owners Friday morning at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
Mayor Jim Cahill was there as well and indicated that he would like to see businesses run by women both larger and more profitable in general.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The man hit by a train at the New Brunswick station on March 25 was paroled from jail just over a month before the fatal incident, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC).
Frank Farriella, 50, was serving jail time for making terroristic threats to his family. He was paroled on February 18, according to the DOC.
Only a month later, Farriella leaned over the platform at the New Brunswick station and was struck by an oncoming express train.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University's Philosophy Department, on the the school's most highly-regarded departments, will be receiving two gifts totalling $3 million to fund an an endowed chair for the department.
"The University will use the chair to attracted another distinguished philosopher to the department," says a University press release.
$1.5 million was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the other $1.5 million by an anonymous donor.
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