Location, Accommodation and Direction

ISCHE 30 will take place in the Paul Robeson Center at Rutgers University-Newark. The campus is located in the University Heights section of Newark, a 15 minute walk and a 5 minute ride on the Newark Light Rail from Newark Penn Station, which is a 20 minutes by train to New York City’s Penn Station in midtown Manhattan.

Participants are requested to make their own hotel reservations as early as possible but not later than April 30, 2008. The conference hotels are the Newark Hilton at Newark Penn Station and the Robert Treat Hotel (a ten minute walk to campus). Lower cost dormitory rooms on campus are available, primarily for graduate students and new scholars.(For the Newark Hilton, please make reservations as early as possible as they will be releasing 25 non-booked rooms each month beginning in March 2008.)

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Detailed information about hotels:

Newark Hilton

The Hilton Newark Penn Station is located at Gateway Center - Raymond Blvd, Newark, 07102-5107. For general reservations, you may call 1-800-HILTONS.

If you are contacting the hotel directly, the person to contact for registration is Lucille Cox or Josephine Philbert. They may be reached at (973) 622 - 5000 or via e-mail at lucille_cox@hilton.com . Be sure to refer to mention conference code RUIC to get the special rate of $139 plus tax (14%) per night.

Robert Treat Hotel

The historic Robert Treat Hotel is located at 50 Park Place, Newark, NJ 07102 for reservations you can call (800) 569-2300 or local number (973) 622-1000.

The direct person to contact for registration is Winston Reyes, Assistant Manager for the hotel. He can be reached at (973)-622-1000 or via e-mail at wreyes@rthotel.com.

In order to get the discount reservations for the conference make sure to include or mention the following:

The conference code: ISCHE

The group number: 2592122

Single: $95.00 per night (including continental breakfast)

Double: $110.00 per night (including continental breakfast)

Dorms are available for grad<uate students at approximately $59 per night in suites with shared baths.