[Editor’s Note: These updates appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Explorations, the magazine for alumni, donors, and friends.] Rick Snethen AG’43 was profiled recently in the Buffalo News series, “Saluting Our War Heroes.” The newspaper profiled Rick’s role as commanding officer in the Army Counter Intelligence Corps., as his unit successfully provided security for […]
Alumni
Rutgers Forestry and Wildlife Management Graduate Selected to Lead National Park in Alaska Region
Rutgers graduate Ben Bobowski (CC ’91), who earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry and wildlife management, has been selected as the new superintendent of the Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve, part of the National Park Service (NPS), in south central Alaska. Bobowski, who will soon begin his tenure in Alaska, is currently the […]
Revolutionary for 250 Years: Waksman, Schatz and the Discovery of Streptomycin
Martin Hall on the George H. Cook campus was the site of the discovery of streptomycin – the first effective treatment for tuberculosis – by Rutgers revolutionary Selman Waksman and his graduate student Albert Schatz. In 1952, Waksman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his “ingenious, systematic and successful studies of the […]
G. Joseph Pennucci (CC’84) Appointed Chief Probation Officer of Lynn District Court in Massachusetts
G. Joseph Pennucci, a 1984 graduate of Cook College, was appointed the Chief Probation Officer at Lynn District Court by the Massachusetts Commissioner of Probation Edward J. Dolan. Pennucci assumed his new role on February 8. Pennucci, who earned a bachelor’s degree in economics at Rutgers, is one of six newly appointed chief probation officers […]
Alumni Story: David Earl (CC’76) – True to His School
Many alumni support their alma mater with time, talent, and treasure. But few are as true to their school as David Earl, who started giving back to Rutgers shortly after his graduation in 1976 and has continued to this day. David is a section chief in the Office of Landscape Architecture of the New Jersey […]
Beyond Words: Carl Safina, GSNB’82,’87
Note: This article first appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Rutgers Magazine. Years of studying animals at sea and on land convinced scientist Carl Safina that many creatures in nature think, express emotion and communicate. In his new book, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (Henry Holt and Company, 2015), Safina GSNB ’82, ’87 couples personal […]
Rutgers Ecological Preserve: A Living Outdoor Classroom
Charlie Kontos, Jr. loved wild places and all forms of wildlife. In fact, he was the first person to document and verify the return of the fisher (Martes pennant), part of the weasel family, to the woods of New Jersey after its extirpation in the 1900s. Kontos passed away in 2010 while in the process […]
Hunterdon County Ag Agent Win Cowgill Retires
Professor Win Cowgill retired April 1, 2016 after 38 years of service. Cowgill started his extension career in 1978 as a county agricultural agent in Warren County, and transferred to Hunterdon County in 1989. He served as the area fruit agent for North Jersey for most of his career. Cowgill helped establish the Rutgers Snyder […]
Student-run Biotech Start-up Earned a $500,000 Commitment from Foundation Venture Capital Group
Visikol Inc., a student-run biotech startup from Rutgers, has gained a commitment of up to $500,000 in funding towards commercialization of its technology from Foundation Venture Capital, LLC. Named after its product Visikol, a biological clearing agent used in scientific and medical research, the company was founded by two current Rutgers doctoral students, CEO Michael […]
Small Dragonfly Is Found to Be the World’s Longest-Distance Flyer
Alumna Jessica Ware (GSNB-Entomology ’08), biology professor at Rutgers Newark, is lead author of a study looking at the mixing of genes of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens across vast geographic expanses. The research indicates that the insect is one of the world’s most traveled, far exceeding the Monarch butterfly. Read more at Rutgers Today.
