Sue Wicks (Cook ’88) is a genuine Hall of Famer! Her basketball records and awards are many: Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame (1994), Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame (2013) and one of the most prestigious honors conferred on Rutgers graduates, the Hall of Distinguished Alumni (2014). Her new role is as co-founder of Fight 2B […]
Don Kobayashi Appointed New Chair of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology
Announcement from Robert M. Goodman, Executive Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of the new chair of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Don Kobayashi, who has been a faculty member of the department since 1990. Don has agreed to accept a […]
Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award Given to Sara Elnakib
Sara Elnakib (CC’07) received the “Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award” (RYDY) from the New Jersey Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics (NJAND) at their annual meeting in May. Elnakib is an assistant professor for RCE in the Department of Family and Community Health Sciences and is the Rutgers NJAES County Agent for Passaic County. […]
Bioinformaticist Yana Bromberg Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Yana Bromberg, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the NSF. Bromberg is the principal investigator of the project, “Molecular functional diversity of microbes and microbiomes,” which is being supported by $1,091,177 in NSF funding. Microbes dominate life on Earth and evolutionary […]
E. Timothy Marshall (CC’83) Honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects
Rutgers alumnus E. Timothy Marshall (CC’83), co-chair of the Landscape Architecture alumni advisory committee, has been elevated to the Council of Fellows by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Marshall, who has maintained close ties to Rutgers, is a longtime supporter of the Roy H. DeBoer Travel Prize in Landscape Architecture and more recently […]
Rutgers Awarded Three of Seven Grants Totaling $5 Million to Study Climate Impacts on Commercial and Recreational Fisheries
NOAA’s Climate Program Office and its Coastal and Ocean Climate Applications (COCA) program—in partnership with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Science and Technology—competitively awarded seven grants projects last year that focused on increasing the understanding of climate-related impacts on fish stocks and fisheries. Three of the seven grants totaling roughly $5 million […]
Alumni Story: William Sansalone (Ag’53, GSNB’61) – Farm Boy at Heart
“After a 46-year career in urban medical centers, I remain a farm boy at heart,” wrote Bill Sansalone, Ph.D., in a thank-you note he sent after receiving a packet of the Rutgers 250 tomato seeds as a gift. Enormously appreciative of his roots in south Jersey agriculture, Bill has gone to great lengths to stay […]
In Memoriam: Professor and Extension Specialist George Wulster (1949-2016)
George Wulster, professor and extension specialist in floriculture in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology at Rutgers, died on June 14 at the age of 66. A resident of Lebanon, NJ, he retired after 36 years at Rutgers as a professor emeritus in January 2014. Wulster received his Ph.D. in post-harvest physiology from Rutgers […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County has Added 18 New Master Gardeners
The NJ Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension announce the addition of 18 new Master Gardeners to its Atlantic County program. These Master Gardeners have completed 60 hours of intensive classroom instruction and will fulfill 85 volunteer hours over the coming year. The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Atlantic County spearhead over a dozen educational […]
Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp Holds Annual Spring Family Weekend
The Lindley G. Cook 4-H Camp held its Spring Family Weekend on May 20-22, giving summer campers (and their parents who wish they could be summer campers) an opportunity to spend a weekend together having fun. “One of the goals of this weekend is to provide the opportunity for brand new families to get introduced […]
