At the board
Archived article from Apr 26, 2004
By Richard Gorman
Expansion approved for School of Law-Camden
At its April 8 meeting, the Rutgers Board of Governors approved construction of a $31 million expansion of the academic, research and community service programs at the Rutgers School of Law- Camden.
The new facility will add 50,000 square feet to the law school and will likely be linked to the 32-year-old existing building, which will be renovated, at the third-floor level. The building will include a state-of-the-art court complex, student gathering space, offices for student organizations, instructional space and room for administrative functions. The structure is expected to be completed in 2007.
Additional space will enable the law school to expand its clinical and pro bono programs. Such programs allow students to work with attorneys and law school staff providing legal services to citizens who otherwise would not have representation.
“This is truly exciting news for the future of our law school,” says Camden Law Dean Rayman Solomon. “The new facility will allow Rutgers-Camden to expand its pedagogical and pro bono offerings and is a significant element in our plan to become one of the top public law schools in the United States.”
The project is funded partially by an $11 million grant from the State of New Jersey as part of the Municipal Recovery and Rehabilitation Act of 2002, which aims to strengthen the anchoring roles of higher education and health care in Camden’s recovery.
Provost Roger Dennis said that an investment of this magnitude is important to Rutgers. “It speaks to the mounting demand for graduate and professional education across our region,” Dennis said. “South Jersey is the growth area for New Jersey during the coming years. Such projects as this new construction allow us to meet that demand in a strategic manner.”
Board approves two professorships
The board also named noted physicist Gabriel Kotliar and acclaimed author Michael Warner Board of Governors Professors.
Kotliar, appointed a board of governors professor physics, specializes in materials theory, specifically correlated materials that have important technological applications in areas such as energy transport and storage, computer electronics, communications and nuclear energy. He has been honored for his work with a Guggenheim fellowship and the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition, Kotliar has been a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.
Warner earned the professional honor for his accomplishments in the fields of queer theory, political theory, American literary studies and American culture. As a scholar, he has gained international recognition for his study of early American literature and gay and lesbian culture. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including “The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Queer Life,” “The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century America” and “Publics and Counterpublics.” He won the Forrester Prize twice for the best essay in the publication “American Literature.” He also contributed to and edited “Fear of a Queer Planet.”
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