If you are interested in weather and broadcasting it to the community, then the WeatherWatcher Living-Learning Community is interested in you! Space is extremely limited!

Located in Perry Hall on Cook Campus, the WeatherWatcher Living-Learning Community offers special benefits to its student residents who want to learn about broadcast communications as well as the basics of broadcast meteorology. They will have the opportunity to work and learn in the field while living with students who share common interests. These residents will have use of an in-hall professional television studio! The Rutgers living-learning communities are unique opportunities for students to get an up-close, hands-on experience as part of their studies at Rutgers University.

Students in this community will be required to participate in a 1.5-credit course offered through the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) for both fall and spring semesters during their first year of residence on the floor. The course will focus on media messages and the creative aspects of producing television and will involve discussions of media literacy, story-telling, popular culture including reality television, and historical perspectives on visual images, among other topics. These courses will count towards graduation credit.

Returning WeatherWatcher Living-Learning Community participants will have other curricular opportunities made available to them upon their second, third, or fourth years.

Students in this special interest housing have:

• Access to video, sound, and editing equipment
• In-depth training sessions to learn how to use the television equipment
• The opportunity to develop and produce daily weather forecasts for the university's television network and longer pieces of science journalism for both the university's television network and national distribution
• A chance to live and work with a group of passionate students who share an interest in video production
• Special guest speakers and field trips
• Priority consideration for employment opportunities with RU-tv

All Rutgers University-New Brunswick students are welcome to apply and must submit an application that can be found at http://rutv.rutgers.edu/wwll_app.php. Applications received by May 1, are guaranteed consideration. Applications will be reviewed and finalists will be required to interview with RU-tv staff during one weekend in May.

Perry Hall's amenities include carpeting, air conditioning, cable TV, and Internet access in each room; and a kitchen and lounge on each floor. The residence hall is only a short walk from the Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences Building (home to the Meteorology program), the Cook Campus Center, and the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center.

To answer general questions you may have about the WeatherWatcher Living-Learning Community, please contact Rashel Carnefix, Manager of Staff Development, at 732-445-5745, ext. 2602, or email carnefix@rci.rutgers.edu.

For more information about learning communities, visit rulc.rutgers.edu, call 732-932-7442, or email rulc@echo.rutgers.edu.

For more information about the Rutgers University Meteorology Program, visit http://meteorology.rutgers.edu/ or contact Dr. Alan Robock, robock@envsci.rutgers.edu, 732-932-9800, ext. 6222.