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After losing a five-goal lead Tuesday, the Rutgers men’s lacrosse team travels to Villanova to face the nation’s 11th-ranked team.
Enrollment increases 11 percent from last year’s total BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
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The University is anticipating another record enrollment for the fall of 2012 on all three campuses for the third year in a row. Enrollment has risen 14 percent so far.
The University is already expecting another record year of enrollment for the fall on all three campuses. So far 3,500 incoming first-year students have paid their deposits for next term on the New Brunswick campus, an 11 percent increase from last year, said Cour tney McAnuf f, vice president for Enrollment at the University. “We’re expecting a ver y similar enrollment to last year, with the exception of the Rutgers Business School,” he said. “We’ll be adding a couple hundred more students there as they start construction on a new classroom building, which will expand the school.” Total enrollment on all three campuses has increased 14 percent, with a total of 4,415 students who paid their deposits, he said. McAnuf f said the University’s graduation and retention rates explain why enrollment increases year after year. “The whole University community is good at retention, with a 94 percent retention rate,” she said. “Students
are staying at Rutgers and completing their degrees. The graduation rate is also going up.” McAnuf f said along with enrollment, the quality of applicants increases ever y year. “It’s not that we’re admitting a whole lot more students,” he said. “We’re getting better applicants and enrolling academically strong students who tend not to fail out.” At the Newark campus, 583 students have paid their deposits, a 28 percent increase from last year, McAnuff said. Camden has received 265 students’ deposits, a 22 percent increase. “It’s still ver y early, the numbers don’t mean a whole lot yet,” he said. “We’ll have a better idea on May 1, [when we’ll have] a true count of where we are. Students could be influenced when they visit, the numbers could fluctuate and move several percentages.” McAnuff predicts all three campuses will reach record enrollment because of a rejuvenated interest in the University. “Our students are better students, they’re doing great work,” he said.
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Zhang earns sixth Cambridge grant in U. history PERSON OF THE WEEK BY MATT CANVISSER CORRESPONDENT
Amy Zhang, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, first met with Arthur Casciato, director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships and Post-graduate Guidance, in his office during the fall of 2008 about applying for academic awards. Zhang, the varsity tennis team’s senior captain, returned to the same office this week as a recipient of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
“It feels amazing. I am still in “The Gates Cambridge shock because I had given up Scholarship is one of the most hope entirely that I could get it,” prestigious awards given to she said. “This is definitely the American college students looking top award that I’ve ever to continue their post-grad studies received. I still can’t believe that abroad in England,” he said “It is I got this.” essentially equivalent to the Zhang, a computer science Rhodes Scholarship. Rhodes major, is the sixth Gates Scholars study at Oxford, and the Cambridge Scholar in AMY ZHANG Gates Scholarship is University histor y, although for Cambridge.” she is the fifth in the past four years, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Casciato said. created the scholarship in 2000 as a result of a
Research shows Americans’ lives may last longer
$210 million donation to Cambridge. Casciato said not many past University students have won it since it is difficult to come by. Economics Professor Jeff Rubin first referred Zhang to the Office of Distinguished Fellowships during her sophomore year, Casciato said. “I had heard about her being such a prolific tennis player, but I was shocked when I met her,” he said. “I found her to be so placid and composed, always willing to lis-
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BY ROBERT ADASHEV A University professor’s research suggests Americans may live longer than they think. Hoang Pham, chairman of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, said Americans’ life expectancies are greater than previously reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). An American who is now 55 years old can expect to live another 29.5 years, Pham said. But his results differ from the CDC’s prediction stating males and females will live 75.2 and 80.4 years, respectively. Instead, he predicts an American male born in 2005 can expect to live 81.9 years and a female 84.6 years. “People are living longer due to health care and social security,” Pham said. Improvements in environmental policy, quality control for food, better exercise habits and the
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News editor of TheBody.com, Kellee Terrell, left, Executive Director of New Jersey Women and AIDS Network Monique Howard and Dean of the College of Nursing William Holzemer discuss current issues, initiatives and perspectives on HIV/AIDS yesterday in the Busch Campus Center.
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