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Nearly a decade after returning to Rutgers to assume the presidency, Richard L. McCormick is preparing to step down. He leaves with many accomplishments to his credit at a time when the university may be acquiring a medical school.

Close to 25 years after graduating from Rutgers, Mark Pascal and Francis Schott are the proprietors of the sublime Stage Left and Catherine Lombardi restaurants in New Brunswick—their venues for sharing their undiminished devotion to fine food.

Economics professor Rosanne Altshuler, also an adviser to presidents on economic policy, answers the question of getting the nation's economic house back in order.

With the effort well under way to design and commercialize bioengineered medical devices to save untold numbers of lives, Rutgers research, and that of a consortium of universities, is paving the way for the imminent introduction of products that will revolutionize medical care.