WELCOME TO THE FASN DEAN'S OFFICE WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Week of February 19, 2007
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1) Voicemail System Repaired & Updated Dean's Office Telephone
Directory
2) Forum: "Speaking on Diversity: A Conversation on Coexistence"
3) MacArthur Foundation Commits $25 Million for Housing Research
4) Rutgers-Newark Web Templates with the New Visual Identity
5) Please contribute to the March 5th issue of FASN E-News & Notes
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1) Voicemail System Repaired
As you may have noticed, the Dean's Office voicemail system was down
last week. The system was repaired on Friday afternoon and is now back
in service. Please see the following link for an updated Dean's Office
telephone directory including voicemail extensions:
2) Forum: "Speaking on Diversity: A Conversation on Coexistence"
You are all invited and encouraged to attend "Speaking of Diversity:
A Conversation on Coexistence," a town-meeting style forum focusing on
issues of the coexistence of people of various faiths, ethnicities, etc.
at Rutgers. The forum will be moderated by Prof. Jon Cowans of the
Department of History The forum will be held in the Dana Room (4th Floor
Dana Library) on Wed. Feb. 21, from 2:30 to 3:50 PM (Free Period).
3) MacArthur Foundation Commits $25 Million for Housing Research
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago has
announced a
$25 million commitment to support new research on the ways that
housing matters to children, families, and communities.
The foundation will create an interdisciplinary research network to
bring together housing scholars, policy makers, and practitioners with
experts in health-related disciplines, child development, education
policy, and labor markets. The group will explore the range of ways that
housing intersects with the lives of children and families as well as
the factors that determine the quality of life and conditions within
particular communities.
MacArthur will also fund demonstration projects and evaluation
research to test the impact of different housing policies. In addition,
it will conduct cost-benefit studies - including the effects of
relocation to low-poverty communities in the Moving-to-Opportunity
program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - and
research analyzing the factors that affect the cost and supply of
affordable housing.
"We expect this research to suggest ways to make U.S. housing policy
more effective and efficient," said MacArthur president Jonathan Fanton.
"We want it to push our country's vision beyond incremental policy
reform. We want it to provoke more far-reaching, new ideas about the
importance of housing and how the net benefits of our investments can
best be realized and understood."
"MacArthur Foundation to Invest $25 Million in New Research on the
Impact of Housing." John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -
Press Release 2/12/07.
4) Rutgers-Newark Web Templates with the New Visual Identity
The Rutgers-Newark web templates are now available with the new
visual identity. Click here to download the web template and logos:
