The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is founded under a less unwieldy name, Rutgers Medical School.

In the summer of 1961, the College Avenue Campus becomes the first training site for volunteers of the newly created Peace Corps.

1963

Three decades after her disappearance, the well-preserved body of Mabel Smith Douglass is discovered in the depths of Lake Placid. Despite the likelihood of suicide, the coroner declares her death accidental.

1964

The federal government gives Rutgers the 540 acres that served as the Army's Camp Kilmer. Five years later the site becomes Livingston College.

1965

Rutgers historian Eugene Genovese causes a national uproar when he speaks out against the Vietnam War. Despite political pressure, President Mason W. Gross refuses to dismiss him.

1969

In February, members of the Black Organization of Students barricade themselves in Conklin Hall, the main classroom building on the Newark campus. The administration responds by canceling classes for three days to hold symposia on black issues and by promising to increase the number of black students, faculty, and staff. The takeover marks the beginning of a wave of black protests that spread to all three campuses.