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 […]
Alumni
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 […]
Regional Livestock Agent Bob Mickel (GSNB ’89) Retires After 31 Years at Rutgers NJAES
Robert C. (Bob) Mickel, agricultural and regional livestock agent for Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Hunterdon County retired on November 1. Mickel began his career with Rutgers in 1987, serving as acting 4-H agent for RCE of Mercer County. After he received his master’s degree from Rutgers Graduate School-New Brunswick in 1989, he was hired […]
Fast Track, Young Alumni on the Move: Marc Valitutto (CC’02)
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: Wm. Christopher Alston (CC’10)
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 […]
In Memoriam: Daniel Kluchinski (1963 – 2017)
Daniel Kluchinski, 54 of Rocky Hill, NJ passed away on October 16 with his husband at his side after an incredible fight with cancer. Dan is survived by his husband of 29 years–W. J. “Brad” Bradhering, his parents–Joseph and Florence Kluchinski, his brothers (and sister-in-laws) Dave (Dawn) and Don (Carol) Kluchinski and six nieces and […]
The Doppler Effect: How StormTracker 4 Benefits Students, Researchers and the Tri-State Area
Editor’s Note: This story first appeared in the Spring 2017 edition of Explorations, the magazine for alumni and friends of the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Since then, the NBC Storm Team visited Cook Campus, the home of the Doppler radar, and interacted with student meteorologists. The next time you visit the George […]
Retired Agricultural Agent Win Cowgill and NC-140 Regional Rootstock Research Team Receive 2017 Shepard Award
Retired Hunterdon County agricultural agent Win Cowgill and fellow NC-140 Regional Rootstock Research Project members were the recipients of the American Pomological Society’s (ASP) 2017 P.H. Shepard Award for the best paper published in the Journal of the American Pomological Society, awarded at the APS business meeting held at American Society for Horticulture Science annual […]
Tending to the Land: Alumni Passion for South Jersey Forests
On a wet March morning last year, Bob Williams is bumping his pickup along a dirt road through one of the private forests whose health he monitors when he spots a patch of pines needing treatment. But what it needs is what the weather precludes: fire. “This is ready to burn now,” says Williams CC’75, […]
The Puppy Maestro
Alumna Peggy Gibbon is the director of canine development at The Seeing Eye, the well-regarded guide-dog school where she has worked for 30 years and has “the best job in the world.” Peggy Gibbon is used to hearing that she has the best job in the world. “A lot of people are dog lovers, so […]
