Rutgers (disambiguation)
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The name Rutgers may refer to the following people and institutions.
People
- Henry RutgersHenry RutgersHenry Rutgers was a United States Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist from New York City, New York.-Biography:...
(1745-1830), Colonel in the American Revolution, and benefactor of Rutgers University - Arend Joan RutgersArend Joan RutgersArend Joan Rutgers was a Dutch/Belgian physical chemist.Arend Joan Rutgers went to high school in Almelo, after which he studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. After he obtained his master's degree in 1926 he went to Leiden, where he studied theoretical physics under Paul Ehrenfest...
(1903-1988), a Dutch-Belgian physical chemist
Institutions
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Rutgers College – Chartered as Queen's college in 1766, and renamed for benefactor Henry Rutgers (above) in 1825, this institution continued to exist by this name as a liberal arts college after Rutgers became a university in 1924, and continued to exist as such until 2007 when it was merged with other colleges into the Rutgers School of Arts and SciencesSchool of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)The School of Arts and Sciences is an undergraduate constituent school at the New Brunswick-Piscataway area campus of Rutgers University. Established in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the non-student college known as the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," the...
. - Rutgers-NewarkRutgers-NewarkRutgers University in Newark is one of three campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities...
is Rutgers University's campus in Newark, New Jersey (including its athletic teams, the Scarlet Raiders) - Rutgers-CamdenRutgers-CamdenRutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, USA , is a state-funded, coeducational, public, research university. Founded in the 1920s, Rutgers–Camden began as an amalgam of the South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jersey. It is the southernmost of the three regional campuses of Rutgers,...
is Rutgers University's campus in Camden, New Jersey (including its athletic teams, the Scarlet Raptors) - Rutgers-New BrunswickRutgers-New BrunswickRutgers–New Brunswick is the largest campus of Rutgers University . It is chiefly located in the City of New Brunswick and Piscataway Township...
is the University's largest campus and is in New Brunswick and Piscataway, New Jersey - Rutgers Preparatory SchoolRutgers Preparatory SchoolRutgers Preparatory School is a private, coeducational, university preparatory day school located in Somerset, New Jersey serving students in Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade...
– the private preparatory school originally chartered as the Queen's College Grammar School in 1766, and formerly part of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) - Rutgers Presbyterian ChurchRutgers Presbyterian ChurchRutgers Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian house of worship in New York City.The church's origins date to 1798 in Lower Manhattan. The first church building was erected on a plot of ground donated by Colonel Henry Rutgers at the corner of what would become Henry Street and Rutgers Street....
– a Presbyterian house of worship located in New York City.
Other
- Rutgers Tomato, an heirloom cultivar of tomato, developed at the university of the same name