Memorial events to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks will be held throughout the month.

September 9 Rutgers vs. Illinois Football Game
The Rutgers Stadium will have a moment of silence prior to the national anthem in remembrance of the victims of September 11. The names of the Rutgers alumni who were lost that day also will be displayed. For more information, contact Susan Beursken, director of marketing and special events, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics, by email or 732-455-7869.

September 10 For the Healing of the Nations
The Gordon Theater on the Camden campus will host a 3 p.m. concert, For the Healing of the Nations, a sacred jazz suite for the victims and survivors of September 11. The Walt Whitman Arts Center has commissioned renowned jazz pianist Geri Allen to compose a fitting artistic tribute to the lives lost on that day. For more information, check the web site www.ruarts.org.

September 11 Planting the Seeds
In coordination with other universities around the country, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is planning events throughout the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus to foster global understanding and promote international scholarship, including a remembrance ceremony at 8:30 a.m. on the Passion Puddle lawn in front of Martin Hall on the Cook campus. For more information, check the web site www.plantingtheseeds.rutgers.edu or contact Gail Alexander, senior executive associate, by email or 732-932-9000, ext. 501.

September 11 Memorial: Moment of Silence
The Newark campus will hold a memorial program 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Samuels Plaza. Dean Darryl Holloman, Provost Steven J. Diner, and various student leaders will speak. The program will conclude with a moment of silence. A reception will follow. For more information, contact Dean Clayton Walton at 973-353-5300.

Memorial Lecture Series
The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and the American Studies Department of Rutgers are cosponsoring a memorial lecture series. The lectures are open to the public but an RSVP is required. Please RSVP by September 6 via phone, 732-932-3640, ext. 638, or email, douge@rci.rutgers.edu.

September 11 Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Celebrated author Angus Kress Gillespie, a professor of American Studies at Rutgers and the author of the best-selling book Twin Towers: The Life of New York City’s World Trade Center, will deliver a lecture on “Rebuilding the World Trade Center” at 4 p.m. in the Special Events Forum at the Bloustein School.

September 27 Visual Response to 9/11
Jonathan Hyman, an art photographer whose images of Americans in the aftermath of September 11 will be exhibited by the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, will deliver an illustrated lecture entitled “Visual Response to 9/11” at 7:30 p.m. in the Special Events Forum at the Bloustein School.

For more information, check on the web at policy.rutgers.edu/news/events/July_14_06_9-11_lecture.pdf or contact Rick Remington, communications director, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, remingr@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-6812, ext. 552.