When Hillary Clinton shed a tear during the presidential primary campaign, it was like a political dam broke, said Michelle Norris, the host of the National Public Radio’s program “All Things Considered,” on Monday at an Eagleton Institute of Politics event that highlighted issues on race and gender in politics.
A 16-day campaign aimed at raising awareness about gender violence comes to an end today on the sixteenth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nation.
The campaign, which began on Nov. 25, will end on International Human Rights Day.
The campaign’s primary focus areas are to support women human rights defenders, end violence against women, strengthen gender equality structures in the UN, and expand financing for gender equality, according to the Center for Women’s Global Leadership’s Web site.
The University’s goal of establishing a comprehensive research center to study nutrition and health took a step in the right direction last week in the form of a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The initial money will be used to begin construction of a four-story, 88,000 square foot building on Cook campus that will house the University’s new Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Robert Goodman said in a recent press release.
Board of Governors decision comes two days after McCormick fired Mulcahy
The University’s Board of Governors on Dec. 12 unanimously approved a resolution to move forward on the Rutgers Stadium expansion project with scale-backs from the original proposal.
The overall project is still expected to cost $102 million and the addition of 11,500 seats, restrooms and concession stands to the south end is expected to be completed by fall 2009.
New locker rooms, reception areas and other improvements have been removed from the plans approved by the board nearly one year ago, but these may be added at a later date.
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