It’s part of her signature on personal emails: “Go RU!” She is a member of the university Board of Trustees, a regular at the games of the Scarlet Knights women’s basketball team, a familiar figure at High Point Solutions Stadium, “owns” a few greens on the Rutgers University Golf Course, was co-chair of the search […]
Six Receive George Hammell Cook and Dennis Fenton Distinguished Alumni Awards
Six graduates of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (and its predecessors) were honored with alumni awards for outstanding achievement at an annual luncheon and celebration on April 26, 2015, at the Cook Student Center. The honorees receiving the George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Award, given to those with undergraduate degrees from the school, […]
Alumni Story: Arthur R. Brown, Jr. (GSNB-Horticulture ’77) – Always Jersey Fresh
Paging through the many personal photo albums that Art Brown’s staff and friends have compiled for him over the years, one is struck by his cheerful exuberance in the images. Clearly, Art Brown is a person who enjoyed his career as New Jersey’s longtime Secretary of Agriculture. And New Jersey enjoyed his valuable contributions during […]
Executive Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Celebrates 150 Years as Land-Grant by Saluting George Hammell Cook
“In the early 1860s Rutgers College was in the doldrums,” writes biographer Jean Wilson Sidar. “An ailing and aging president, apathetic alumni, and a lack of support … made the college an unlikely place for a dynamic change of direction and growth.” Due to the Civil War, the entire institution was reduced in size from […]
Alumni Story: Mark Zarrillo (CAES ’70), Present at the Revolution
The Department of Landscape Architecture each year honors an alumnus/a who has contributed substantially to the landscape architecture profession. Mark J. Zarrillo, Class of 1970, is the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture 2014 Outstanding Alumnus. As part of the honor, Mark was invited to the G.H. Cook Campus recently to deliver a presentation in […]
Alumni Story: Scott Willens (Cook’92), A Call to Action
When Scott Willens was six years old, he started piano lessons and for a while aspired to going to Julliard. During his senior year in high school, he got a beagle puppy, and that changed everything. Still an accomplished musician, he is now Army Major Scott Willens, with a DVM with board certification in the […]
Alumni Story: Tom Pluta (Ag ’64, GSNB ’76), A Solid Foundation
The School’s open invitation to alumni to share their “stories” has resulted in scores of interesting, even inspirational, memoirs about work and careers and the influence that their Rutgers education and experiences had on the direction of their lives. And in some cases, there have been several roads taken. Such is the case with Deacon […]
Alumni Story: Lester Brown (Ag’55), Environmental Roots
Editor’s Note: One of the most prestigious honors conferred on alumni of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is induction into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni (HDA). The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is proud of its 16 HDA honorees. This is one of a series of stories about them. It’s one thing […]
Alumni Story: Mark Robson, Making Rutgers His Home
Editor’s Note: In celebration of the 150th anniversary of our designation as the land-grant institution in New Jersey in 1864, alumni were invited to tell their own Rutgers “story.” Mark Gregory Robson holds four Rutgers degrees – a B.S. (1977) in Agricultural Science from Cook College, a master’s (1979) and Ph.D. (1988) in Plant Science […]
Alumni Story: Sue Wicks (CC’88), The ‘Whole Package’
On the eve of her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013, Sue Wicks (CC’88) was interviewed by Mechelle Voepel of ESPN.com. She was asked how she felt about playing basketball as a professional with the New York Liberty of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her answer: “It was the communication […]
