Busch Campus of Rutgers University

Busch Campus is one of the five sub-campuses at Rutgers University's New Brunswick/Piscataway area campus, and is located entirely within Piscataway Township, New Jersey, US. Academic facilities and departments centered on this campus are primarily those related to the natural sciences: physics, pharmacy, engineering, psychology, mathematics and statistics, chemistry, geology, and biology. The Rutgers Medical School was also built on this campus in 1970, but a year later was separated by the state, renamed the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and merge with the New Jersey Medical School and other health profession schools in Newark and New Brunswick to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Rutgers and the medical school continued to share the land and facilities on the campus in a slightly irregular arrangement. On July 1, 2013, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School was officially merged back into Rutgers University, along with most of the other schools of UMDNJ, with the exception of the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine.

The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (1902–1971), of Edgewater, New Jersey, an eccentric millionaire, who unexpectedly donated $10 million to the University for biological research at his death in 1971.[1][2] The campus was formerly known as "University Heights Campus". The land was donated by the state in the 1930s, and a stadium was constructed. The land was formerly a country club, and the original golf course still exists on the campus.

Selected buildings

References

  1. "New Jersey Briefs; Rutgers Gifts Set-Record Hearing Sought on Rail Freight Traffic Offshore Atom Plant Site Gains". New York Times. October 25, 1973. Retrieved 2007-08-21. Dr. 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 1972–73 fiscal year. This compared with $19,120,945 in 1971–72, 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.
  2. Gabrielan, Randall (2001). Piscataway Township. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-0439-4. ... in 1972 for Charles L. Busch, a wealthy investor who, in 1971, willed Rutgers about $10 million for biological research.

Coordinates: 40°31′30″N 74°28′00″W / 40.52500°N 74.46667°W / 40.52500; -74.46667

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