Grassroots fundraising efforts create momentum at the Rutgers Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center, where researchers seek to end the disease and the pain it causes patients and their families.
Lawrence “Lonnie” Wright played professional basketball and football before embarking on his career of cheering on generations of students, inspiring them to dream bigger and go to medical school. Today, a Rutgers scholarship bears his name.
The newly opened Rutgers Basic Needs Center on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick—built with generous donor support—is an expansion of the campus food pantry, which now offers additional resources for students.
The $8.8 million gift will support the school’s ongoing Arts in Health initiatives—which seek to improve individual and community well-being and health outcomes—and fund a new faculty chair.