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President Richard L. McCormick
Richard L. McCormick, a respected scholar and eminent leader in higher education, was inaugurated as the 19th president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on April 13, 2003.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Richard L. McCormick poses with his parents on the day he was appointed to the Rutgers presidency in December 2002. Richard P. McCormick, a longtime historian, died in 2006; Katheryne C. McCormick, a former Rutgers administrator, died in 2011.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick welcomes Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, to Rutgers. On September 25, 2005, the Dalai Lama gave a lecture to an audience of 36,000 at Rutgers Stadium.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Leaders of the Rutgers College Educational Opportunity Fund Program Student Association honor President McCormick for establishing a book loan program for EOF students on all campuses in 2005.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Dr. McCormick held a series of campus discussions leading to his proposal, approved by the Board of Governors in March 2006, to restructure undergraduate education at Rutgers—New Brunswick.
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President Richard L. McCormick with youngest daughter, Katie.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Richard L. and Joan Barry McCormick at the President's House.
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President Richard L. McCormick
In 2006, Dr. McCormick invests Professor Wise Young (second from left) as the first holder of the Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience. Professor Shindell is seated at right.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Students listen to President McCormick at a course on higher education that he taught alongside a member of the Rutgers history faculty.
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President Richard L. McCormick
New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine (left) and President McCormick (holding trophy) join Coach Greg Schiano and the Scarlet Knights football team in celebrating the team's 2006 Texas Bowl victory.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick reads to students at a New Brunswick public school in 2006.
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President Richard L. McCormick
A day after the Scarlet Knights competed for the 2007 national championship, President McCormick embraces women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer at a welcome-home celebration.
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Dr. McCormick in Ocean City with the members of the 2007 Faculty Traveling Seminar, in which three dozen new faculty members accompanied him on a weeklong bus tour of New Jersey.
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President Richard L. McCormick
Alumni join President McCormick at Homecoming Weekend in 2007, the year the university implemented President McCormick's sweeping plan to strengthen the relationship between Rutgers and its nearly 400,000 alumni.
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President Richard L. McCormick
In, Beijing, State Councilor of China Madame Chen Zhili presents a plaque to President McCormick in December 2007, recognizing his selection as the U.S. representative to the Confucius Institute Headquarters Governing Council.
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President Richard L. McCormick congratulates Wajdi Kanj, one of 10,852 graduates in 2008.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President Richard L. McCormick shares a moment with students in the Rutgers Future Scholars Program. Launched by President McCormick in 2007, Rutgers Future Scholars increases access to higher education for bright, economically disadvantaged students from Rutgers' host communities.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick delivers his Annual Address each September, a tradition he began upon his arrival at Rutgers, when the Rutgers community was invited to hear him report on Rutgers' progress and upcoming goals for the year ahead.
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President McCormick introduces the Scarlet Knights football team at the 2008 Homecoming Festival.
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Dr. McCormick with food science students in October 2008, gleaning vegetables for distribution to needy families through Farmers Against Hunger.
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President Richard L. McCormick
At Rutgers Day in April 2009, President McCormick talks with students Joseph Shure (left) and Rohan Mathew about the Intersect Fund, their microfinance program to help New Brunswick entrepreneurs through small loans.
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President McCormick smiles with pride as graduates march in the 2009 University Commencement processional.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick greets a member of the Operation Gallant Warrior staff at a June 2009 parade in Trenton welcoming home Army National Guard members from deployment in Iraq.
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President McCormick introduces Dr. Cornel West, author and professor of African American studies at Princeton University, at a February 2010 reception.
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President Richard L. McCormick
In the State House, Dr. McCormick greets senior Simon Gordonov at the annual Rutgers Day in Trenton advocacy event in May 2010. Gordonov earned the university's first Churchill Scholarship in 43 years.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is greeted by President McCormick prior to the May 2010 Commencement, at which Governor Christie received an honorary degree.
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President Richard L. McCormick talks with students at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences' annual Community Day in 2010.
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President McCormick confers with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at the Our Rutgers, Our Future fundraising campaign kickoff event October 2010. Photo by Saed Hindash/The Star Ledger.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President Richard L. McCormick presides over the university's 245th Anniversary Commencement on Sunday, May 15, 2011—Rutgers' largest commencement in which a record 12,890 degrees were conferred.
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President Richard L. McCormick on the mall of Rutgers' flagship New Brunswick Campus.
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President Richard L. McCormick
President McCormick (front row, third from right) accepts an honorary professorship from Shanghai University in January 2012.
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President McCormick is hooded by secretary of the university Leslie Fehrenbach as he receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for outstanding service to the university at Rutgers' May 2012 Commencement.