Livingston Campus, originally known as Kilmer Campus, is one of the five campuses that make up Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

's New Brunswick/Piscataway area campus. The campus was originally built to house Livingston College

Livingston College

From 1969 to 2007 Livingston College was one of the residential colleges that comprised Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's undergraduate liberal arts programs. It was located on Livingston Campus in Piscataway, NJ. In the Fall of 2007 the New Brunswick-area liberal arts undergraduate...

. 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

Camp Kilmer

Camp Kilmer, New Jersey is a former United States Army camp that was activated in June 1942 as a staging area and part of an installation of the New York Port of Embarkation. The camp was organized as part of the Army Service Forces Transportation Corps. Troops were quartered at Camp Kilmer in...

, a staging area during World War II. The army reserve continued using a small part of the original army campus until 2009.

A large amount of parking was created on this campus, mainly because the Louis Brown Athletic Center

Louis Brown Athletic Center

The Louis Brown Athletic Center, more commonly known as the RAC , is an 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Piscataway, New Jersey on Rutgers University's Livingston Campus. The building is shaped like a truncated tent with trapezoidal sides on the north and south ends...

 served as the temporary home of the New Jersey Nets

New Jersey Nets

The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

 basketball team from 1977 to 1981.

Student center facilities were initially located in Tillett Hall. A Livingston Student Center opened in 1986 and was expanded in 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

School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)

The School of Arts and Sciences is an undergraduate constituent school at the New Brunswick-Piscataway area campus of Rutgers University. Established in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the non-student college known as the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," the...

, 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

Raritan River

The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. Its watershed drains much of the mountainous area of the central part of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay on the Atlantic Ocean.-Description:...

 in New Brunswick.

Buildings on Livingston Campus

• Tillett Hall — 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 — This is one of the few remaining reminders of the original name of the campus.
• Louis Brown Athletic Center
  Louis Brown Athletic Center
  The Louis Brown Athletic Center, more commonly known as the RAC , is an 8,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Piscataway, New Jersey on Rutgers University's Livingston Campus. The building is shaped like a truncated tent with trapezoidal sides on the north and south ends...
  
  
• Lucy Stone Hall — Named after Lucy Stone
  Lucy Stone
  Lucy Stone was a prominent American abolitionist and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone was the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged...
  
  , the founder of the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association, this building holds many administrative offices, the departments of Sociology, Geography, Criminal Justice, Center for African Studies, as well as many classrooms and a few lecture halls. (Source: Catalogue of Building and Place Names at Rutgers)
• Livingston Student Center — Home of student organizations such as 90.3 the Core RLC-WVPH
  WVPH
  WVPH is Piscataway, New Jersey's community and student-run radio station.It is a broadcasting agreement between the former WRLC AM station from Rutgers, Livingston College and WVPH-FM from Piscataway High School. The two institutions combined forces in 1977 to create an educational opportunity and...
  
   and The Livingston Theatre Company. This building also has a convenience store and several retail food vendors.
• Livingston Recreation Center (renovated in the Winter of 2007), originally known as the Livingston Gym.
• Ernest A. Lynton Towers (Residence Halls)
• Livingston Quads (Residence Halls) Each of the Quad Residence Halls (Quad 1, 2, and 3) consists of multiple buildings surrounding a central courtyard and connected by an underground tunnel.
• Beck Hall (classrooms, chemistry laboratories) — Named after Lewis Caleb Beck
  Lewis Caleb Beck
  Lewis Caleb Beck was an American physician, botanist, chemist, and mineralogist.-Biography:...
  
  , Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, Rutgers College, 1830-53 (Catalogue of Building and Place Names at Rutgers).
• Janice H. Levin Building (includes the business school) — Named after a benefactor
• Livingston/Busch Health Center
• Livingston Bookstore — Operated by Barnes & Noble
  Barnes & Noble
  Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...
  
  
• 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

External links

• http://www.rutgers.edu