Category: higher education

In New Jersey, talks of merging three universities

While discussion continues here at UMR about the merits of changing our university’s name, I’m becoming more interested in how other public institutions are dealing with organizational change. This story about what’s going on in New Jersey caught my eye. Lawmakers in the Garden State are studying the feasibility of merging three campus — Rutgers, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

I wonder what they’d call the new institution? One lawmakers suggests the University of Newark. That’s certainly shorter than something like the Rutgers University of Medicine, Dentistry and Technology.

Notes from the National Association of Science Writers conference

If you missed the National Association of Science Writers‘ conference in Baltimore last weekend, you can read about many of the sessions on a conference blog of sorts. Lots of well written posts there. (Personal favorite: Adventures in Alternative Science Communication, which described a session on why talking about science need not be stodgy.) But what else should we expect from a writers conference?

You can also read the views of UMR staffer Lance Feyh, who posted about killer wasps, zombie cockroaches and other things he learned about at the conference on our science blog, Visions.