Spring 2011 Events |
| A Conversation with MSNBC Host Rachel Maddow |
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow (center) came to Rutgers for a conversation with Institute director Ruth B. Mandel (right) as part of Eagleton's "It's ALL Politics" lecture series. Julia Nutter (left), a 2010 Rutgers graduate who interned both at Eagleton and at MSNBC and now works full-time for Maddow, arranged for the visit. |
| 2011 Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture |
- Congressmen Rush Holt (left) and Leonard Lance visited the Eagleton Institute for Both Sides Now: A Conversation with Two Congressmen. The discussion was the year’s Lewitt Lecture.
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| RU Ready™ Young Leaders Conference |
Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula spoke to students from New Brunswick High School and the Rutgers students who worked with them at the RU Ready™ Young Leaders Conference, April 29.
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| Eagleton on Campus at Rutgers Day |
2010 Eagleton Governor’s Executive Fellow
Nicole Scott-Harris (left) and events intern Saskia Kusnecov posed with one of Eagleton’s cardboard
VIPs at Rutgers Day.
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| Former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace |
Nicolle Wallace, White House communications director under President G.W. Bush, offered glimpses into White House life and the McCain/Palin campaign as she discussed her White House novel, Eighteen Acres.
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| New York Times Columnist Ross Douthat |
New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat answered questions and exchanged ideas with Eagleton students after his talk Moral Majority to Moral Minority: Politics in a De-Christianizing America, part of the series “It’s ALL Politics.”
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| ABC News' Senior Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser |
- Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News’ senior health and medical editor and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, offered his perspectives on Preparedness, Pandemic, and Political Change.
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| RU Ready™ Young Leaders Conference |
- Valerie B. Jarrett senior advisor to President Barack Obama and chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls presents the Senator Wynona Lipman lecture on women’s political leadership.
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