Daily Targum 11.28.18

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BASKETBALL Rutgers looks to extend streak down

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more to end food insecurity

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cast team up for epic thriller

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WEATHER Cloudy High: 43 Low: 33

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New scheduling system delayed until Spring 2020 RYAN STIESI STAFF WRITER

The new course scheduling software platform that the Office of Scheduling and Space Management has been working on has been delayed until the Spring 2020 semester, said Interim Chancellor of Rutgers—New Brunswick Christopher J. Molloy in a University-wide email last week. The new scheduling system is an effort to address course-related travel and time-to-degree challenges students face at Rutgers, while also following the University’s phys-

ical master plan, Rutgers 2030, and University Strategic Plan, which call for addressing these issues and improving the student experience. Molloy said in the email that the delay is to ensure adequate time to thoroughly analyze its Spring 2019 scheduling simulation results, make any needed adjustments for the subsequent semester, and allow the team to run a third simulation on the Fall 2019 semester. Recently, the Office has been collecting individual instructor SEE SPRING ON PAGE 4

Interim Chancellor of Rutgers—New Brunswick Christopher J. Molloy said the new scheduling platform will help ease course-related transportation between campuses for students and better accommodate faculty schedules. RUTGERS.EDU

5 Rutgers professors elected AAAS fellows CATHERINE NGUYEN STAFF WRITER

Scott Thomas, distinguished professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was elected as a fellow by the AAAS for his contributions to particle physics, specifically supersymmetry and searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. YOUTUBE

Five Rutgers professors have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of Science Magazine, according to Rutgers Today. Yesterday, association members of the AAAS announced 416 new fellows, emphasizing their efforts to advance science or its applications through research, teaching or other significant contributions. Fellows are elected every year, notable honorees being inventor Thomas Edison and astronomer Maria Mitchell.

The honorees will be presented with an official certificate and a rosette pin, either gold for science or blue for engineering, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 16. One of the AAAS fellows is Girsh Blumberg, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Blumberg was distinguished by AAAS for his contributions to the field of spectroscopy, which studies the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation. He is most known for contributing to a spectroscopic SEE FELLOWS ON PAGE 4

Girsh Blumberg, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Masayori Inouye, distinguished professor at the Center of Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine and Megerditch Kiledjian, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, were elected AAAS fellows. RUTGERS.EDU ­­VOLUME 150, ISSUE 111 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • OPINIONS ... 6 • INSIDE BEAT... 8 • DIVERSIONS ... 9 • SPORTS ... BACK


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