Professor Passes Away During Hike
There is no mathematical formula that finds the answers to life, although Dr. Donald Wise, as a specialist in actuarial science, investigated the probabilities of life and death during his time at Rider. With tragic unpredictability, Wise, chairman of the Management Sciences Department, died suddenly at the age of 62 on Saturday, Dec. 3, while doing what he loved: hiking. Dr. Phyllis Frakt, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, summed up the shockwaves felt across the Rider community as a result of Wise’s unexpected death... MORE
Don Brown, director of multicultural affairs, lights candles during the Celebration of Lights on Thursday, Dec. 8, in the Bart Luedeke Center Cavalla Room. Holding the candles are, from right, junior Fabienne Banczak and seniors Paul Harding and Robert Fink.
Father of communication dept. retires
A retirement party for Dr. Howard Schwartz, who helped found the Communication Department in September of 1970, was held Friday, Dec. 2. Former and current faculty joined alumni in the atrium of the Student Recreation Center (SRC) to celebrate his achievements. The event highlighted the career of Schwartz, who served as chairman of his department for 35 years... MORE
Rider will once again focus on strengthening its international connections by playing host to 30 new students from Sanda University in Shanghai, China this January. The Sanda program has grown not only in the number of students, but also by the duration of their study, according to Dr. Minmin Wang of the Communication Department... MORE
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Special BHP class enriches others
Following Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s speech at Rider on Monday, Nov. 7, 20 Baccalaureate Honors students and their two professors invited Carter to speak about his case in the course ‘Law and the Arts.’ Expanding the honors program has been a constant goal for the University. The Baccalaureate Honors Program (BHP) concentrates on team-taught seminars... MORE
Two months after the opening of the Student Recreation Center (SRC), Rider is at it again, undergoing another building project on the Lawrenceville campus. The project is a replacement greenhouse that is under construction in front of the Science Building, and is another part of the University’s renewal... MORE
Rider connection moves to China
Rider’s program with Sanda University in Shanghai, China brings Chinese students to America to study at Rider. However, the program affords only a small number of students at a time the opportunity to learn in the U.S. But for those members of the program still in China, the University has been brought to them. Dean of Business Larry Newman... MORE
Rider has vowed to battle the increase in crimes committed with computers and similar communication technologies, including the Internet. The University has recently joined two other schools in establishing a Cyber Crime and Forensics Institute. “Rider University’s Center for Business Forensics is proud to join East Stroudsburg University and Drexel University... MORE
Chang-rae Lee lecture postponed
The lecture by Asian-American writer Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and Aloft, which was supposed to take place tonight in the Bart Luedeke Center Theater (BLC), will be postponed until Friday, Feb. 3, because of the expected snow. ... MORE
