Busch Campus (Rutgers University)

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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 $100 million to the University for biological research at his death in 1971.

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• 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 Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, named for George William Hill (Rutgers 1859), opened in 1971 and houses the Mathematics and Computer Science departments, along with a number of small Centers. It also houses the Mathematical Sciences Library and a large underground data center.
• The William Levine Hall houses Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
• The Library of Science of Medicine is the main library for science and health collection of the Rutgers University Libraries system.

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• 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.

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