Rutgers Cooperative Extension agricultural agent Dan Kluchinski was honored posthumously on February 7 with a Distinguished Service to Agriculture Citation by the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture during the New Jersey State Agricultural Convention in Atlantic City. New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher said, “While we are saddened by Dan’s recent passing, […]
Alumni
In Memoriam: Barbara Lapinski Tangel, Alumna and Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Barbara L. Tangel, M.S., R.D. died January 21, 2018 at her home after an extended illness at age 67. A resident of East Brunswick, NJ, Tangel served as assistant teaching professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at the Rutgers University for 43 years. She received her B.S. degree […]
Jennifer Robertson CC’97, Keeper of the Big Cats
If you’re a zookeeper assigned to the big cat exhibit (think lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars) you are expected to develop a relationship with the animals, even a 350-pound lion. How do you do that? “Very slowly,” said Jennifer Robertson CC’97, permanent keeper at the KeyBank Big Cat Falls exhibit at the Philadelphia Zoo. There are […]
Four SEBS Alumni. Four New Jersey Wineries. One Common Goal
To draw attention to high-quality Jersey wines and elevate the state’s stature to rival those of East Coast wine destinations like the Finger Lakes. Here’s how these young alumni are transforming New Jersey’s reputation one bottle at a time. New Jersey wines haven’t always enjoyed the best standing in the wine industry. In fact, if […]
Kathryn M. Sinko (SEBS’16), One of Eight Family Members to Graduate from Rutgers
Three generations of a family, spanning 60 years, are proud to proclaim they are alumni. One family, three generations of it, spans 60 years of attending Rutgers—the perfect personification of what it means to be scarlet forever. Donald E. Seccia graduated from Rutgers College with a journalism degree in 1956. His twin daughters attended Rutgers, […]
Jonathan Kolby (CC’03): The Frog Prince
Alumnus Jonathan Kolby comes to the rescue of frogs in Honduras—and worldwide. As a boy, alumnus Jonathan Kolby spent hours catching frogs in the woods near his Union, New Jersey, home. He’s still hunting for them, although his efforts these days take him to places like the wetlands of Nicaragua, Australia, Kenya, and Honduras, where Kolby […]
In Memoriam: Daymon Thatch, Alum and Former Chair for Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Daymon W. Thatch, 81 of Manasquan passed away December 16, 2017 at Ocean Medical Center, Brick with his wife Elizabeth at his side. Born in Chicago, Daymon was raised in Highland Park, NJ, and during his life resided in College Park, Md., Piscataway, NJ and since 2001, in Manasquan, NJ. He received his undergraduate and […]
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: Megan Linkin (CC’04)
Explorations, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, features profiles of recent graduates who have launched successful careers and may well be on their way to making headlines for their work. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile […]
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: John Cambridge (GSNB’16) (MPH’15) (SAS’11)
Explorations, the bi-annual magazine of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, features profiles of recent graduates who have launched successful careers and may well be on their way to making headlines for their work. The editors posed a series of questions about how their Rutgers experience influenced their lives. Here is one such profile […]
FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF Colonel Henry Rutgers
Nearly half a century after Queens College was founded, the institution fell on hard times. Colonel Henry Rutgers, an esteemed officer in the Continental Army, a wealthy landowner, an important leader in the community, and a generous philanthropist, resuscitated the struggling institution with a gift of $5,000 and a bell—and you know the rest. Fast […]
