- Edward J. Bloustein
Edward J. Bloustein (January 20, 1925 - 9 December, 1989) was the seventeenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1971 to 1989. He was born in New York City, and he graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1942. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946.
- Greg Schiano
Gregory Edward Schiano (b. June 1, 1966 in Wyckoff, New Jersey) is the head coach and defensive coordinator for the Rutgers University football team. Schiano grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and attended Ramapo High School. He then attended Bucknell University, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and graduated in 1988 with a B.S. in business administration. In his playing career at Bucknell University, he was a three-year letterman at linebacker.
- C. Vivian Stringer
Charlene Vivian Stringer (born March 16, 1948) is currently the head coach of the Rutgers University women's basketball team. She is a graduate of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. She is a native of Edenborn, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Alumni Hall of Fame at her alma mater. Stringer and the late William D. Stringer have three children: David, Janine and Justin.
- Ray Rice
Raymell "Ray" Rice (born January 22, 1987) from New Rochelle, New York is a American college football junior running back who plays for Rutgers University.
- Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, …
- Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher is an anthropology professor and human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University and is one of the major researchers in the field of interpersonal chemistry. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. By many accounts, including her own, Fisher is considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love.
- Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, …
- Ernest Mario
Ernest Mario is an American pharmaceutical industry executive and the recipient of the 2007 Remington Medalist awarded by the American Pharmacists Association. Ernest Mario grew up in Northern New Jersey, attending the Clifton Public Schools, elementary school #6, Christopher Columbus Middle School and Clifton High School. He received a bachelor of science in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, …
- David Stern
David Joel Stern (born on September 22, 1942) is an American lawyer, who has been commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1984, when, via a successful coup d'etat he wrested control from the previous commissioner, Larry O'Brien. David Stern grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and is a graduate of Teaneck High School. Stern attended Rutgers University on a full scholarship.
- Fred Hill
Fred Hill is the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University.
- Robert Menendez
I am a US Senator for the state of NJ. I am a Democrat. My religion is Catholic. I am Separated From Spouse. I received my BA from St. Peter's College. I received my JD from Rutgers University. I live in Hoboken. I was born in New York, NY. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "1 Gateway Ctr., 11th Fl., Newark, NJ 07102".
- Henry Rutgers
Henry Rutgers (October 7, 1745 in New York City, New York, United States of America - February 17, 1830 in New York City, New York, United States of America) was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York.
- James Gandolfini
Although he acted on Broadway and in various films in the 1990s, Gandolfini's most-acclaimed role is that of Tony Soprano, the Mafia boss and family man in the multi-award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, which debuted in 1999. He has since starred in films such as 8 MM and The Mexican. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey, grew up in New Jersey, and currently lives in New York City.
- Paul Smolensky
Paul Smolensky (born May 5, 1955) is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. With Alan Prince he developed Optimality Theory, a controversial but influential theory about the organization of phonology. Smolensky is the recipient of the 2005 Rumelhart Prize for his pursuit of the ICS Architecture, a model of cognition that aims to unify Connectionism and symbolism, …
- Frank Pallone
Frank Pallone Jr. (born October 30, 1951 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American Democratic politician, who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives where he represents New Jersey's 6th district (map). Pallone was elected to office in 1988, filling the New Jersey's 3rd congressional district seat vacated by the death of James J. Howard. In redistricting following the 1990 Census, the district was effectively renumbered as the 6th district.
- Brian Leonard
Brian Leonard (born February 3, 1984 from Gouverneur, New York) is an American football player for the St. Louis Rams, and a former star athlete from Rutgers University. He was the Scarlet Knights' three-year star and has earned numerous awards for his play in the Big East Conference. He is regarded as both a fullback and a running back, and was described as one of the top all-purpose backs in college football. Leonard is renowned for his athleticism due to his size, hands, …
- Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943 in Philadelphia), is a United States jazz pianist. He is the younger brother of tenor saxophonist Bill Barron, and known for his lyrical, adaptive style. His talent first came to wider recognition when he took the piano chair in the 1960s Dizzy Gillespie quartet. He has gone on to work with hundreds of well-known musicians including Michael Brecker, Yusef Lateef, James Moody, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Buddy Rich, Ron Carter, Chet Baker, …
- Alan Prince
Alan Sanford Prince (born 1946) is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory a theory about phonology. He went to high school in Fairfax, Virginia, got his BA with "great distinction" from McGill, and received his Ph.D. from MIT. * Homepage
- Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman , PhD: Dr. Goleman was a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), with the mission to help schools introduce emotional literacy courses. One mark of the Collaborative—and book’s—impact is that thousands of schools around the world have begun to implement such programs.
- Charlotte Bunch
Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944) she was born in north carolina on october 13th is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements. Charlotte Bunch graduated Duke University in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. She went on to undertake graduate research at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.. Her studies focussed on education and social change.
- Carli Lloyd
CARLI LLOYD : A New Jersey native, has been playing on the USA Women's National Team since 2005 and is a starter in the midfield. Carli won a bronze medal in the 2007 Women's World Cup in China and was named Tournament MVP at the prestigious Algarve Cup in Portugal the year before. She will also be a member of the Olympic team traveling to Beijing for the Summer Olympic Games in August. And equally important, she has the coolest jersey number on the team.
- Ernest Sosa
Ernest Sosa is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has been at Rutgers full-time since January, 2007; previously, he had been at Brown University since 1964. While full-time at Brown, he was also a distinguished visiting professor at Rutgers every spring from 1998-2006. Sosa's CV He is one of the leading contemporary epistemologists, and has also written on metaphysics, modern philosophy and philosophy of mind.
- Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas. Fodor argues that mental states, such as beliefs and desires, are relations between individuals and mental representations.
- Scott Garrett
E. Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Republican and has represented New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District seat since January 2003 (map). Prior to being elected to the House, Garrett served in the New Jersey General Assembly (the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature) from 1990 to 2002 representing the 24th legislative district, …
- Colin McGinn
Colin McGinn (born 1950) is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. McGinn is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern philosophy.
- Janine Benyus
BIOMIMICRY is one of those rare hopeful notes in the modern chorus of environmental warnings. Janine offers a radical alternative to today's industrial model of progress - an elegant survival strategy drawn from a better understanding of those natural systems on which we are still totally dependent. Perhaps the best thing about this "quest for innovations inspired by nature" is that it is more than just a theory. It is already underway.
- H. Bruce Franklin
H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934) is an American cultural historian who has authored or edited nineteen books on a range of subjects. As of 2006, he is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He first attained prominence as a Melville scholar and has served as president of the Melville Society.
- Robert E. Mulcahy III
Robert E. Mulcahy III is the director of athletics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Since being installed in the position in 1998, Mulcahy is noted for having raised the Athletic Department's endowment, in securing external sources of revenue to renovate and construct several athletic facilities at Rutgers, …
- Robert Trivers
Robert L. Trivers, (born 19 February 1943, pronounced as) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), and parent-offspring conflict (1974). Other areas in which he has made influential contributions include an adaptive view of self-deception (first described in 1976) and intragenomic conflict.
- Shirley Jackson
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to July 1999 and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society.
- Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich (born May 9, 1943) is a professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is also currently an Honorary Professor of the department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. For the spring of 2007, he is the Clark Way-Harrison visiting professor with the department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Stich's main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, epistemology, and moral psychology.
- Chi-Tang Ho
Chi-Tang Ho is a Chinese-born American food scientist. He received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1974 and immediately started working professionally as a researcher and professor in the food science pepartment at Rutgers University. He is now director of the food science graduate program at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art history. He also studied at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York City and later with John Cage . His teaching career has included faculty positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts (Associate Dean).
- Eric Allender
Eric W. Allender is an American computer scientist active in the field of computational complexity theory. In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is currently a professor at Rutgers University.
- Doron Zeilberger
Doron Zeilberger is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics. He is a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, under the direction of Harry Dym. Zeilberger has made numerous important contributions to combinatorics, hypergeometric identities, and q-series.
- Jason Stanley
Jason Stanley (b. October 12, 1969) is an American philosopher currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. His primary interests include linguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. Stanley is an occasional contributor to Brian Leiter's "Leiter Reports" blog.
- Deborah McGuinness
Deborah Louise McGuinness is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust. She is the co-director and senior research scientist at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. McGuinness received a B.S. in math and computer science from Duke University, …
- Kenneth G. Miller
Dr. Kenneth G. Miller (born 1956) is a Geology professor at Rutgers University. Ken is Professor (II) and acting Chair of the Department of Geological Sciences of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. A resident of Pennington, NJ, Ken grew up in Medford, NJ in the heart of the pine barrens and still owns a house in Waretown, NJ, the home of the sounds of the NJ pines, where he watches the inexorable rise in sea level from his deck 13 ft above Barnegat Bay.
- Michael Warner
Michael Warner is a social theorist and professor of Queer Theory as well as the Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, and The Village Voice. He is the author of Publics and Counterpublics (Zone Books, 2002); The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (Harvard University Press, 2000); The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800 (Routledge, …
- Eric Foster
Eric Foster from Homestead, Florida is a American college football senior defensive lineman who plays for Rutgers University.