Carey Williams, equine extension specialist in the Department of Animal Sciences and associate director for extension at the Rutgers Equine Science Center, has been honored with the “Outstanding Educator Award” by the Equine Science Society. Presented on June 6 at the conclusion of the society’s three-day biennial symposium in Fort Collins, CO, the award recognizes […]
OCPE’s Rosemary Mahony Goes the Extra Mile for Recovery Support Groups
Rosemary Mahony, department administrator at the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education (OCPE) was honored by the Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) at Rutgers University. Mahony was presented with ADAP’s Lisa Laitman Recovery Champion Award in May at Trayes Hall, Douglass Student Center. Bestowed each year on those who have gone above and […]
Jeff Grob CC’85: Destined to be a Landscape Architect
Jeff Grob graduated with a degree in landscape architecture from then Rutgers Cook College in 1985. Today, he’s a senior associate at Stantec, an international company that provides professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and more for infrastructure and facilities projects. After more than 40 years of experience as a […]
Researchers Find Climate Change Threatens Global Food Supply
Climate change is putting the global food system at risk, even as farmers try to adapt, according to a study conducted by a Rutgers-New Brunswick professor and other researchers in a national collaboration. Publishing their findings in Nature, the researchers found that every 1-degree Celsius increase in global mean surface temperature (about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) could reduce […]
Rutgers Turfgrass Program Successfully Takes Tyler Robb Out of the Weeds and Onto the Green
As a high school student, Robb didn’t even know turf management was a career option. Now the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School alumnus is living the dream and spreading the word. “I’m not a golfer,” confesses Robb, lead assistant superintendent at Grove XXIII, a private golf course owned by basketball legend Michael Jordan. “But […]
Scientists Find a New Way to Help Plants Fight Diseases
A breakthrough by a collaboration between Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory could improve crop resilience In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a specialized protein and are proceeding to develop tools that can capitalize […]
Distinguished Professor Joanna Burger Has Endowed a Legacy Professorship at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
The Rutgers University Board of Governors (BOG) voted today, June 17, to establish the Joanna Burger Endowed Legacy Professorship to support faculty in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources who are advancing the study of behavioral ecology in innovative and impactful ways. This legacy professorship is the first for the School of Environmental […]
OAP’s Sharice Richardson Recognized by the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities
Sharice Richardson, assistant dean for retention and student support in the SEBS Office of Academic Programs (OAP), was the recipient of the 2025 Dr. Zaneta Rago-Craft Award presented by the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities. Richardson, who has served the SEBS and Cook campus community for more than 30 years, was […]
Ocean Education Tools Made by and for Oceanography Professors
A network of undergraduate professors is creating a new edition of an open-source online laboratory manual, full of free educational data activities for anyone to use in undergraduate or graduate oceanography classes. Developed by the Ocean Data Labs project, each chapter of the online lab manual focuses on different oceanographic concepts typically taught in an […]
Landscape Architecture Professor Anette Freytag: Academia Can—and Must—Reach the Public
The International Landscape Architecture platform, LANDEZINE, featured Rutgers faculty Anette Freytag in May. Here is the interview, reproduced with permission. Professor Anette Freytag is a relentless researcher, moving between academia, activism, and public engagement. She taught at ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Technical University of Innsbruck before joining Rutgers University, where she is […]
