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NEW BRUNSWICK — The new president of Rutgers University said Tuesday that he wants to reduce the school’s subsidy for sports programs and raise more money for New Jersey’s flagship state university.

Robert Barchi / Associated Press
Robert Barchi / Associated Press
Dr. Robert L. Barchi, a physician, former president of Thomas Jefferson University and a longtime administrator at the University of Pennsylvania, formally took over at New Jersey’s state university on Saturday.

The institution is in a time of transition even without getting a new president.

Last month, Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill to give the school most parts of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, including two medical schools, in a move designed largely to improve the biomedical research at the state university that sits amid titans of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The handover of the schools is to happen next year.

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