Livingston Campus

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Livingston Campus, originally known as Kilmer Campus, is one of the five campuses that make up Rutgers University's New Brunswick/Piscataway area campus. The campus was originally built to house Livingston College. It is a large campus, although the majority of its land is the undeveloped Rutgers Ecological Preserve. Most of the campus is within the boundaries of Piscataway, but parts extend into Highland Park and Edison.

Campus History

University buildings were erected on the Kilmer Campus (later renamed Livingston Campus) in Piscataway, between Metlars and Cedar Lanes starting in 1969, with the creation of Livingston College. The land had formerly been part of the U.S. Army's Camp Kilmer, a staging area during World War II. The army reserve still uses a small part of the original camp today. A large amount of parking was created on this campus, mainly because the Louis Brown Athletic Center served as the temporary home of the New Jersey Nets basketball team from 1977 to 1981.

Student center facilities were initially located in Tillett Hall. A Livingston Student Center opened in 1986. Groundbreaking for a new student center/dining hall complex took place in December 2007 and is scheduled for completion in winter of 2010.

In the Fall of 2007, Rutgers University consolidated the undergraduate liberal arts colleges in the New Brunswick-Piscataway area, including Livingston College, to a School of Arts and Sciences, but Livingston Campus continues to serve the Rutgers community. Currently, many first year students reside on Livingston Campus.

Roadways

The campus has several generically named roads, such as "Road 1," "Road 2," and "Avenue E," which date back to the campus's military days. Any efforts to rename the roads have failed to date.

Livingston Campus and adjacent Busch Campus received their own exits on Piscataway's Route 18 expressway, completed in 2005, expediting inter-campus bus travel to these and the College Avenue, Douglass, and Cook campuses across the Raritan River in New Brunswick.

Buildings on Livingston Campus

Ernest A. Lynton Towers, named after the first Dean of Livingston College -- the tallest buildings on Livingston Campus.

• Tillett Hall^[1] — Named after Paul Tillett, a political science professor, who played a major part in the planning of Livingston College. This building holds the dining hall, the post office, the learning center, the counseling center, the departments of Psychology (part) and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies, computer labs, and various classrooms. (Source: Catalogue of Building and Place Names at Rutgers)
• Kilmer Area Library/Media Center^[2] — This is one of the few remaining reminders of the original name of the campus.
• Louis Brown Athletic Center
• Lucy Stone Hall^[3] — Named after the founder of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association, this building holds many administrative offices, the departments of Sociology, Geography and Criminal Justice, as well as many classrooms and a few lecture halls. (Source: Catalogue of Building and Place Names at Rutgers)
• Livingston Student Center^[4] — Home of student organizations such as 90.3 the Core RLC-WVPH and The Livingston Theatre Company. This building also has a convenience store and several retail food vendors.
• Livingston Recreation Center^[5] (renovated in the Winter of 2007), originally known as the Livingston Gym.
• Ernest A. Lynton Towers (dormitories)^[6] — Named after the first Dean of Livingston College
• Quads 1, 2, and 3 (dormitories)
• Beck Hall^[7] (classrooms, chemistry laboratories, Center for African Studies^[8]) — Named after Lewis Caleb Beck, Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, Rutgers College, 1830-53 (Catalogue of Building and Place Names at Rutgers).
• Janice H. Levin Building^[9] (includes the business school) — Named after a benefactor ^[10]
• Livingston/Busch Health Center
• Livingston Bookstore — Operated by Barnes & Noble
• Livingston Day Care Center
• Rutgers University Asian American Cultural Center
• Livingston Classroom Building (modular building structure) — the newest building on Livingston
• Neurotoxicology laboratories
• Many maintenance and storage buildings are also located on Livingston Campus. Some of these are original facilities from Camp Kilmer.
• The Livingston Arts Building (Mason Gross Sculpture Department)
• Rutgers iTV Studio

References

External links

• http://www.rutgers.edu

Coordinates: 40°31′19″N 74°26′10″W / 40.522°N 74.436°W / 40.522; -74.436