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Encyclopedia > Busch Campus (Rutgers University)

Busch Campus is at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. It contains the Rutgers Graduate School and other departments. The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (1902-1971), of Edgewater, New Jersey, an eccentric millionaire, who donated $10 million to the University for biological research at his death in 1971. Rutgers redirects here. ... Piscataway Township is a township located in Middlesex County, New Jersey. ... Map highlighting Edgewaters location within Bergen County. ...


Buildings

  • Waksman Institute of Microbiology is a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University. It is named after Selman Waksman, who was a faculty member who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952 for research which led to the discovery of streptomycin. 18 antibiotics were isolated in Waksman's laboratory. Streptomycin and neomycin, and actinomycin, were commercialized.
  • Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) was established in 1985 to advance knowledge in the life sciences for the improvement of human health. It is jointly administered by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The building was completed in 1990, and has 100,000 square feet of lab and office space.

The Waksman Institute of Microbiology is a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University. ... The Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine is located on Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. ...

Reference

  • New York Times; October 25, 1973; Edward J. Bloustein, the Rutgers University president, announced yesterday that the university had received $27,751,646, a record, in gifts, bequests, grants and contracts during the 1972-1973 fiscal year. This compared with $19,120,945 in 1971-1972, he said. Dr. Bloustein said the bequests included $10-million from the estate of the late Charles L. Busch of Edgewater, the largest gift ever made to the state university.

The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

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