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Selman Waksman: Rutgers Alumnus, Researcher and Nobel Prize Winner Developed System to Discover Antibiotics
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, tuberculosis was one of the nation’s most feared killers. At one point, the highly infectious disease known as TB killed more than 400 Americans a day. But by the early 1950s, TB deaths had dropped sharply…
Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Selman Waksman Nobel Prize
Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology hosted a symposium and dinner event on December 11-12, 2012 on the New Brunswick, NJ, campus in honor of the 60th anniversary of Selman Waksman receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
2020 SEBS Virtual Convocation Remarks by Class Representative Jeremy Posluszny
BEYOND THE SYLLABUS Welcome, graduates, faculty, staff, family, and friends. I’m Jeremy Posluszny, an environmental and business economics major here at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. I am honored to address you today at our historic S.E.B.S. Convocation Ceremony. Though we may not be able to celebrate in person with each other, the screens and masks between us do […]
Meet the New Jersey State Microbe
Streptomyces griseus, a microorganism discovered in New Jersey soil in 1916 by Rutgers scientists, was named the official state microbe by the New Jersey State Legislature in 2019. Professor Selman Waksman and graduate students Albert Schatz and Elizabeth Bugie discovered in 1943 that S. griseus produces an antibiotic, which they named streptomycin, that proved effective […]
New Jersey Gets Official State Microbe: Streptomyces Griseus
Selman Waksman – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
New Jersey Gets Official State Microbe: Streptomyces Griseus
Selman Waksman – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Rutgers Experts Comment on New Jersey’s State Microbe- Streptomyces griseus.
Selman Waksman; Elizabeth Bugie; Albert Schatz – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Move over, birds. New Jersey considers naming a ‘state microbe.’
Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz, Elizabeth Bugie, Max Haggblom – School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers Discovery That Changed the World May Become New Jersey’s State Microbe
Pending bill would honor bacterium that helps to cure tuberculosis A soil-based bacterium called Streptomyces griseus could become New Jersey’s official state microbe 75 years after Rutgers University–New Brunswick scientists discovered its ability to cure tuberculosis. The 1943 discovery at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station defined Rutgers’ role as a leader in antibiotic research […]
