Rutgers University plans to create a memorial center, which will be named after Tyler Clementi, a gay student, who committed suicide after his roommate filmed his romantic moments with his partner.

The Tyler Clementi Centre will help students transition from home to college life by organizing symposia, lectures and training sessions on misuse of social media, youth suicide - especially among LGBTQ youth and cyberbullying.

The center will be collaborating with Tyler Clementi Foundation, an NGO, started by the student's parents after his death.

"Suicide is never the answer and I would hope that maybe they will learn that they need to reach out and find comfort and find encouragement from those around them," Jane Clementi, Tyler's mother, told myfoxny.

His brother, James Clementi, hopes that this center will address issues that confront young people.

"It's bittersweet because I feel like if this could have been in place when Tyler was coming here as a student it might have made all the difference for him and we might still have him with us," James told the channel.

Tyler, 18, was a freshman at San Jose, when he committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge in September 2010.

His roommate Dharun Ravi set up a webcam in their shared dorm and captured Clementi kissing and hugging another man.

The video was later broadcast across the Internet.

This drew national attention and Obama's administration was urged to adopt strict anti-bullying measures.

Local lawmakers will soon be re-introducing Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act in the Senate. This act was first proposed in March 2011, but was not approved.

Last year, March 2012, Ravi was convicted on 15 counts including violating of privacy and bias intimidation. Currently, he is appealing his conviction.

Jeffrey Longhofer, a social worker, applied anthropologist and associate professor of social work at Rutgers will head the center and Susan Furrer, executive director of the Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, will be the co-director.

Richard Edwards, Rutgers' executive vice president for academic affairs told the newspaper that initially, the university will donate about $200,000 to $300,000 to the center.

For future activities, the center will approach varied organizations, donors and grants for funding.

The center's first event will be a lecture on 'Growing Up Digital: Embodied Experience in the Virtual Age,' presented by author Richard Miller March. 29.