Busch Campus is one of the five campuses at 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 main New Brunswick/Piscataway area campus, and is located entirely within Piscataway Township, New Jersey

Piscataway Township, New Jersey

The township consists of the following historic villages and areas: New Market, known as Quibbletown in the 18th Century, Randolphville, Fieldville and North Stelton...

. Academic facilities and departments centered on this campus are primarily those related to the natural sciences: physics, pharmacy, engineering, psychology, mathematics and statistics, chemistry, geology and biology. The Rutgers Medical School was also built on this campus in 1970, but a year later was separated by the State to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and they continue to share the land and facilities on the campus in a slightly irregular arrangement. The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (1902–1971), of Edgewater, New Jersey

Edgewater, New Jersey

Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 census, the borough had a population of 11,513...

, an eccentric millionaire, who unexpectedly donated $10 million to the University for biological research at his death in 1971. The campus was formerly known as "University Heights Campus." The land was donated by the state in the 1930s, and a stadium was constructed. The land was formerly a country club, and the original golf course still exists on the campus.

Selected Buildings

• Waksman Institute of Microbiology
  Waksman Institute of Microbiology
  The Waksman Institute of Microbiology is a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University. It is named after Selman Waksman, who was a faculty member who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952 for research which led to the discovery of streptomycin. 18 antibiotics were isolated in...
  
   is a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University. It is named after Selman Waksman, who was a faculty member who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952 for research which led to the discovery of streptomycin. 18 antibiotics were isolated in Waksman's laboratory. Streptomycin and neomycin, and actinomycin, were commercialized.
• Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
  Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
  The Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine is located on Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey. It was established in 1985 to advance knowledge in the life sciences for the improvement of human health. It is jointly administered by UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and by Rutgers,...
  
   (CABM) was established in 1985 to advance knowledge in the life sciences for the improvement of human health. It is jointly administered by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...
  
   and by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The building was completed in 1990, and has 100000 square feet (9,290.3 m²) of lab and office space.
• Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, named for George William Hill
  George William Hill
  George William Hill , was an American astronomer and mathematician.Hill was born in New York City, New York to painter and engraver John William Hill. and Catherine Smith Hill. He moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from...
  
   (Rutgers 1859), opened in 1971 and houses the Mathematics and Computer Science departments, along with a number of small Centers. It also houses the Mathematical Sciences Library and a large underground data center
  Data center
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• William Levine Hall houses the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
  Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
  The Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy is a constituent of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. It was founded in 1892 as the New Jersey College of Pharmacy in Newark, NJ and merged with Rutgers University in 1927 as the Rutgers College of Pharmacy. In 1971, the school moved to its current...
  
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• The Library of Science of Medicine is the main library for science and health collection of the Rutgers University Libraries system.
• The School of Engineering. The original four-wing building was opened in 1963.
• The Busch Campus Center and Busch Dining Hall
• Paul Robeson Cultural Center
• Administrative Services Building I and two annex buildings
• Archive building for the University Library system
• Many residence halls and apartment buildings for undergraduate and graduate students
• High Point Solutions Stadium and Hale center
• Yurcak field for LaCrosse and Soccer
• Sonny Werblin Recreation Center
• University President's compound
• Physics facilities
• Classroom buildings: SERC and ARC
• University of Medicine and Dentistry Buildings
• Busch Campus Heat/Electricity Cogeneration plant