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Telephone 609-258-3601; Fax 609-258-1301For immediate release: April 11, 2001
Contact:
Marilyn Marks, Princeton University, (609) 258-3601, mmarks@princeton.edu
Joseph Blumberg, Rutgers University, (732) 932-7084, ext. 652, blumberg@ur.rutgers.eduMedia Advisory:
U.S. Reps. Frelinghuysen and Holt to receive Science Coalition awards April 16
U.S. Reps. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R-NJ-11th)) and Rush Holt (D-NJ-12th) each will receive the Science Coalition's Champion of Science award during ceremonies at Rutgers' Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS) in New Brunswick. The congressmen will be recognized Monday (April 16) for their efforts to advance federal support for university-based science research. Rutgers President Francis L. Lawrence and Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro will make the presentations.
Princeton and Rutgers are among more than 400 member organizations in the Science Coalition working to expand and strengthen the federal government's investment in university-based scientific, medical, engineering and agricultural research.
The Champion of Science awards, first presented in 1999, honor members of Congress who have demonstrated strong support for federal funding of basic research. Previous recipients include Sens. Bill Frist, Joseph I. Lieberman and Barbara A. Mikulski, and Reps. Vernon J. Ehlers, Richard Gephardt and Connie Morella.
You are invited to send a reporter, photographer or camera crew to cover the event. If you plan to send a representative, please contact Joseph Blumberg at Rutgers' Office of Media Relations at (732) 932-7084, extension 652, or by e-mail at <blumberg@ur.rutgers.edu>; or Marilyn Marks at Princeton University at (609) 258-3601, or by e-mail at <mmarks@princeton.edu>.
WHAT: Champions of Science awards ceremony
WHO: U.S. Reps. Rush Holt and Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro and Rutgers President Francis L. Lawrence.
WHEN: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Monday (April 16)
WHERE: Rutgers' Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Room 109), Cook College campus, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick
A map is available at www.kiosk.rutgers.edu/Topology/ CookDouglass/ and directions for the Cook campus may be found at www.rutgers.edu/kiosk/ directions/NBDirections.html. Parking is available directly across Dudley Road from IMCS.
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