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THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2009 Home News TIubune www.MyCentralJersey.com PAGE A7 LOCAL Police: Linden crash victim was texting Rutgers drops library Studies' from school name By JOSHUA BURD STAFF WRITER By SERGIO BICHAO STAFF WRITER WHAT YOU CAN DO The Linden police Accident Investigation Unit is still looking into the crash. Any witnesses or anyone with information is asked to call Investigator Mark Kahana at 908-474-8505. The school will be known as the School of Communication and Information, or pronounced "sky." the school. The school, which has commonly been referred to as SCHS, was established in 1982, merging the library and journalism Hospital in Newark. She died there two hours later from blunt force trauma.

Allison said Borges, who was wearing a seat belt, was driving over the highway's 45-mph speed limit, though her exact speed was unknown. Investigators found her cell phone at the scene, apparently in the middle of a text message, he said. Police will have to look at her phone records before knowing definitively. The truck driver was not injured. lane, just south of Park Avenue at 11:50 p.m., when she struck a curb and lost control of her 1993 Nissan Altima, police said.

The car careened across all lanes of traffic and over the low concrete median before colliding with the truck in the far right northbound lane. The empty tanker struck the passenger's side of the car, Allison said. The air bags deployed, but Borges had to be rushed to University LINDEN The Rahway woman who died after her car struck a tractor-trailer Monday night was text messaging and speeding before she lost control to set off the fatal crash, police said Wednesday. Investigator David Allison of the department's Traffic Bureau said those factors led to the late-night collision on Routes 1 and 9 that fatally injured Cibely Borges, according to a preliminary investigation. Borges, 23, was driving in the right southbound RUTGERS University officials have dropped the words "Library Studies" from the name of its School of Communication, Information and Library Studies.

The school will be known as the School of Communication and Information, or pronounced "sky," the university said in a statement. The Rutgers Board of Governors approved the name change in April after a faculty vote of 30-10 in February endorsing the change. Officials said the name change was needed to provide a clearer identity for the school, which teaches broadcasting, public relations, journalism and library studies. Opponents viewed the change as a snub to library studies, arguing that a name change would break the library community's ties and identification with Rutgers, N.J. seek to make 'French connection' By SERGIO BICHAO STAFF WRITER Dean Jorge Reiana Sche-ment said all of the school's programs would remain in place.

offers three undergraduate programs in communication, information technology and informatics, and journalism and media studies. It also offers master's degrees in communication and library and information science. Sergio Bichao: 732-565-7256; sbichao MyCentralTersey.com initiating research partnerships with companies and universities in New Jersey within the next three to six months. "What's important is that they will bring new technology to the patients here in the U.S.," said Petitjean, whose company helps bring medical and biotech firms to the U.S. market.

MedNest partnered with the French government and Work- the executives tours of labs at Rutgers and bio-tech-ready business locations in the region, and in-troducing them to university experts. Matthew Petitjean, president of Princeton-based MedNest and the life sciences advisor to the French embassy in the United States, said he hoped the networking done last week will result in the French companies CENTRAL JERSEY The state's $29.5 billion bio-pharmaceutical and medical technology industry made a French connection last week when Rutgers University and industry officials hosted a dozen top-level executives from, the Bordeaux region of France. Time was spent giving it i 4 i i- i i i rl 17 a i uast. Sv A I rn A M' I America's 1 Fsmtfy Owntd Operated ApphwKJ ft Htctroma EU Utter 3 1 RktwrdlS Reliable Est. 1909 force Innovation in Regional Economic Development, or WIRED, Bio-1 and Bio-NJ.

The weeklong visit was part of a general campaign by Bio-NJ, a trade organization founded in 1994 and dedicated to promoting biotechnology industry in the state, and Bio-1, a partnership of schools and biotech companies in Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and Somerset five counties along or near the Route 1 corridor between Princeton and Rutgers universities. "In the life sciences, people coming to the U.S. have a lot of choices, including California, Massachusetts and North Carolina. But we want them to be in New Jersey," said Lisa Weisser, a spokeswoman for Bio-1, which is based at Rutgers. Weisser said Central Jersey's biggest draw is its proximity to 15 of the world's 20 largest pharmaceutical and biotech firms such as Bristol Myers-Squibb, Johnson Johnson and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Merck in Rahway and in-Ventiv Health in Somerset, as well as the labs and talent at Princeton, Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Among the French companies represented here last week were Abodiag, which has developed a way to test the compatibility of donated blood with recipients with record speed; 1 Fois 1 Jour, which has developed a completely natural wound care dressing and cream; and Francis Lavigne Development, which develops therapeutic and orthopedic shoes for diabetes patients. Petitjean said expanding a business into the United States is not difficult, but "doing business outside of your own country is different." The way medicine is practiced, business regulations and the complex U.S. economy all differ from methods overseas. Navigating those differences can prove to be lucrative for foreign and domestic companies as well as New Jersey's economy. This year the state's 200 biotech companies provided jobs to 147,836 people, both directly and through "spin-off' jobs created through the purchasing of supplies and services and construction projects, according to the Healthcare Institute of New Jersey.

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