Busch Campus of Rutgers University

Busch Campus is one of the five campuses at Rutgers University's main New Brunswick/Piscataway area campus, and is located entirely within Piscataway Township, New Jersey. 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 to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and they continue to share the land and facilities on the campus in a slightly irregular arrangement. 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.

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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, Thursday. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10813F63C5D127A93C7AB178BD95F478785F9. 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 0738504394. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sx24XbQ4N40C&pg. "... in 1972 for Charles L. Busch, a wealthy investor who, in 1971, willed Rutgers about $10 million for biological research." 

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