Rutgers Historian T. J. Jackson Lears and Philosopher Stephen Stich Elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Two Rutgers scholars, historian T.J. Jackson Lears and philosopher Stephen Stich, have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nation’s pre-eminent learned society and research institution.

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Rutgers Professor Annette Gordon-Reed Receives 2009 Pultizer Prize in History

Rutgers University History Professor Annette Gordon-Reed has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in history for her landmark work, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W. W. Norton, 2008). The award was announced this afternoon by the Pulitzer board. In its citation, the board praised The Hemingses of Monticello as “a painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson.

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Rutgers, named as Data Sciences Lead Institution for the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has selected Rutgers University as the co-lead for a new DHS Center of Excellence to conduct research into the technological issues involved with maintaining homeland security.

Rutgers and its co-lead, Purdue University, will together receive up to $5 million per year over a period of six years, for an anticipated total of as much as $30 million.

The center is formally known as the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control, and Interoperability (CCI). It will conduct research and develop technologies, tools and advanced methods for information analysis, situational awareness, decision support, information sharing and cyber infrastructure protection.


Rutgers will be the lead institution for research in the data sciences, and Purdue will be the lead for research in the visualization sciences. Leading the Rutgers effort is the university’s Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS).

"Homeland Security’s selection of Rutgers for the new grant was the result of an intensive competition and evaluation process.” said Fred Roberts, professor of mathematics, head of DIMACS and the Rutgers principal investigator for the CCI Center of Excellence. “It speaks to our expertise in critical, multidisciplinary areas of research and to our innovative educational programs.”


Roberts noted that Rutgers will lead a team of partner institutions participating in the new center’s data analysis activities.

DAAS Notice Designating Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as Data Sciences Lead Institution for the DHS Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability

Rutgers gets homeland security research grant | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/01/2009