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On a summer's day in 1943, a young scientist at Rutgers discovered an antibiotic that would change millions of lives. But Albert Schatz, who died in West Mount Airy in 2005, was denied credit. His name never appeared on the Nobel Prize given for that work.   That's the little-known story told in Peter Pringle's new book, Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug (Walker & Company, 269 pp., $26). And there's a widow who remembers, and a grandson conquering cerebral palsy to create a documentary film honoring his wronged grandfather's work.

Yesterday could have easily been "Rashidat Junaid Day" over at Camden Catholic High School. That's because you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone at the Cherry Hill campus not talking about the 2006 Irish graduate. People spoke of Junaid possibly winning an NCAA women's basketball championship in this, her freshman season at Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights face Tennessee in today's 8:30 p.m. national final at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. "I went into the main office [yesterday]

CLEVELAND - A quarter of a century is a long time to wait for a second opportunity, but that's how long it has taken C. Vivian Stringer to return to the NCAA women's championship game. Back in 1982, the NCAA finally had sanctioned women's basketball as a varsity sport, and Stringer was coaching at Cheyney State in the southwestern suburbs of Philadelphia. The Wolves missed out on a chance at immortality by losing the title game, 76-62, to Louisiana Tech in Norfolk, Va. Stringer couldn't have imagined that it would take her 25 years to coach in another national championship game.

Rutgers will receive its official invitation today to play in the Dec. 27 Insight Bowl, the New York Daily News reported last night. The Scarlet Knights will meet Arizona State, the team they played in the 1978 Garden State Bowl - the only other time the school has played in the postseason. Rutgers beat Cincinnati, 44-9, at home on Saturday to finish 7-4.

Penn outrowed Rutgers in a close race for the Lev Brett Cup in lightweight competition in yesterday's chilly weather on the Schuylkill. Penn held a slight advantage most of the way down the river and held off Rutgers' spurt at the end by slightly more than one-quarter of a boat length. Penn sped the 2,000-meter course in 6 minutes, 0.4 seconds with a favoring strong tail wind. Rutgers was clocked in 6:01.6. Georgetown held off Drexel in the varsity eight of the regatta on the Schuylkill sponsored by Drexel.

Tom Savage harbors no ill feelings toward Rutgers' football program, but he felt a change was needed. On Saturday, Rutgers announced that Savage, who was a starting quarterback as a freshman, has decided to transfer after an injury-plagued sophomore season in which he lost his starting position to freshman Chas Dodd. "We felt it was best to get a fresh start," Savage said in a phone interview with The Inquirer on Saturday night. A star quarterback at Cardinal O'Hara who was considered a prime recruit when he committed to Rutgers, Savage insisted that there was no friction between himself and coach Greg Schiano.

Ted Trump, Delran's righthanded pitching star, has accepted a partial baseball scholarship to Rutgers. Trump, who is also the quarterback of the Bears' football team, signed with Rutgers last night. "It was a very good offer they gave me," Trump said. "I had a great visit there, and really liked the coaches and players. Plus, Rutgers is only about an hour away from home, so my family can see me play. " In addition to Rutgers, Trump made official visits to George Mason and Richmond.

Drexel loses to Army one night and defeats Rutgers the next. Go figure. The Dragons, led by Brian Holden's 23 points, placed four players in double figures to defeat host Rutgers, 76-64, in a non-conference game last night. It was the Dragons' first victory over the Scarlet Knights in 13 meetings. On Monday, the Dragons were upset at Army, 70-67, in a game in which Holden shot just 3-for-15 and the team shot 24-for-74. Last night, the 6-4 junior guard was 6-for-12, including two three- pointers, and 12-for-13 from the foul line.

Rutgers soccer coach Bob Reasso listened to his junior goalie, Bill Andracki, and was rewarded. Andracki blocked two penalty kicks and saw another go wide yesterday to lead Rutgers to a shootout win over Adelphi in a second- round NCAA tournament game. Rutgers won the shootout, 3-2, after the teams tied 2-2 in regulation and two 15-minute overtimes. Rutgers (18-2-2) advances to the Division 1 quarterfinals against the winner of today's match between Dartmouth and Columbia. The game will be played Saturday at a site to be determined tonight Adelphi finished 14-6-1.

TV/Radio: MSG-ESPN Regional; WENJ-AM (1450), WOR-AM (710). Records: Norfolk State, 1-0; Rutgers, 2-0. The buzz: Norfolk State of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) is playing its first Division I-A opponent since starting football 10 years ago, and coach Pete Adrian raised some eyebrows by commenting that he would rather be playing Michigan than Rutgers. . . . As many eyes may be on the stands today as on the field. In last week's win over Navy, a handful of Rutgers fans booed and shouted vulgarities at the Mids, forcing athletic director Bob Mulcahy and president Richard McCormick to issue public apologies to the Naval Academy.

The world finally got to see Dharun Ravi cry, and if his tears didn't demonstrate the remorse he has so famously failed to express publicly, they at least looked genuine. The seemingly unflappable Ultimate Frisbee ace barely batted an eyelash Monday when others in the Middlesex County courtroom described his actions as "evil" and so lacking in humanity as to verge on monstrous. But when his mother, Sabitha Pazhani, began sobbing just a seat away, Ravi's enormous brown eyes filled up, then spilled.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Prosecutors say they will appeal the 30-day jail sentence given to Dharun Ravi today in the Rutgers University webcam spying case. Ravi, 20, of Plainsboro, N.J, was convicted in March of bias intimidation, invasion of privacy and hindering prosecution for using his laptop to secretly live-stream an intimate encounter between his Rutgers roommate, Tyler Clementi, and another man two years ago. Tyler committed suicide days after he became aware of the incident, focusing international attention on the case.

Eric LeGrand went home from Wednesday's 76ers-Celtics game with some great memories and a new jersey. LeGrand, a football player for Rutgers who was paralyzed in a 2010 game, attended the game at the Wells Fargo Center as the guest of the 76ers. He was presented a jersey with his No. 52 on it by Sixers director of public relations Michael Preston. "This is great," LeGrand said during halftime. He said that he has been a longtime fan of Celtics forward Kevin Garnett, but that he had no rooting interest.

On a summer's day in 1943, a young scientist at Rutgers discovered an antibiotic that would change millions of lives. But Albert Schatz, who died in West Mount Airy in 2005, was denied credit. His name never appeared on the Nobel Prize given for that work.   That's the little-known story told in Peter Pringle's new book, Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug (Walker & Company, 269 pp., $26). And there's a widow who remembers, and a grandson conquering cerebral palsy to create a documentary film honoring his wronged grandfather's work.

State Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Tuesday he was working on legislation to be ready June 1 for restructuring New Jersey's public universities. In an interview, he maintained that multiple options remained on the table, even as Rutgers officials suggested they were close to a deal that would keep Rutgers-Camden within the Rutgers university system. "There's a whole bunch of variations" of the legislation, but "I'm not going to throw that out until I find something that can work," Sweeney, a Democrat, said after a groundbreaking ceremony for the Cooper Cancer Institute in Camden.

Prosecutors have asked a Superior Court judge in Middlesex County, N.J., to sentence Dharun Ravi to prison for bias intimidation and a series of related charges in the Rutgers University webcam spying case. Ravi's convictions for live-streaming his gay college roommate's having an intimate encounter with a man and hindering the criminal investigation warrant jail time, First Assistant County Prosecutor Julia L. McClure argued in a 14-page memo and a supporting document filed Thursday.

A compromise on the proposed merger between Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden moved another step closer Thursday as the Rutgers board of trustees passed a resolution stating that the Camden campus must stay within the university and suggesting that it was open to compromise to make that happen. Weeks in the making, the resolution is largely symbolic and comes three months after Gov. Christie announced plans to overhaul New Jersey's public universities with an eye toward making them more competitive — a process that is to include a shrinking of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and giving Rutgers a long-sought medical school and other health facilities.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Lawyers for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on his college roommate kissing another man, have asked a Superior Court judge to overturn the jury's verdict, arguing among other things that the state's bias-intimidation law was misused. In a motion filed Tuesday, Steven Altman said that evidence in the case did not support the invasion-of-privacy conviction and that the bias-intimidation charges were unfounded. Altman asked Judge Glenn Berman to throw out the conviction or grant Ravi, 20, a new trial.

During more than 40 years as a professor and practitioner of international law, Roger S. Clark has occasionally asked himself this question. What's a little boy from Wanganui doing here? Wanganui (wong-a-noo-ee) is the New Zealand city where Clark, 71, grew up. And "here" could be his office at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, the United Nations headquarters in New York, or the International Court of Justice in the Hague, where he once got 30 minutes to make a case against nuclear warfare.

TRENTON — Members of the Assembly budget committee skewered New Jersey's higher education secretary at a hearing Wednesday, arguing that they can't judge a proposal to overhaul the state university system without knowing the cost. Secretary Rochelle Hendricks said "world-class" financial experts were reviewing the proposal, which would merge Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University in Glassboro and combine parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with Rutgers' main campus in New Brunswick.