Are you an Ag, CAES, Cook or SEBS alum who is planning to come to the 2013 Ag Field Day at Rutgers Day? Then come “Do Lunch With the Executive Dean!” Join Executive Dean Bob Goodman and alumni lunch chairman Barry Adler (’72), for some good eats and good fun. This first-ever “new tradition” will […]
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Rutgers Oral History Archives: An Interview with Professor Emeritus Hans Fisher
Noted nutritional biochemist Hans Fisher, Rutgers Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences, and his family emigrated from Germany in the late 1930s to escape the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews. He was among the refugees aboard the St. Louis in 1939 when the ship was turned away from the United States and Cuba. He later settled in New […]
Transforming Blake Hall on Cook Campus
Home to the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture for over 40 years, Blake Hall recently saw the completion of a 3-year, $1.5 million renovation project. The building, located at the intersection of Lipman Drive and Red Oak Lane on the George H. Cook Campus, has been transformed, featuring renovated studios, a computer lab, a model-making […]
Listening and Mentoring: Robert Gravani’s (’67) Most Important Lesson
When the call went out in the December 2012 Discovery Initiative newsletter for stories from alumni, Robert Gravani answered. A Professor of Food Science and Director of the National Good Agricultural Practices program at Cornell University, Bob received his bachelor of science degree in Food Science in 1967 from Rutgers’ College of Agriculture and Environmental […]
Students Mashruwala and Kung Awarded Scholarship for Excellence in Graduate Studies
Ameya Mashruwala, graduate student in the Microbial Biology Program, and Tiffany Kung, graduate student in the Toxicology program, were named recipients of the 2012 Robert S. and Eileen A. Robison Scholarship Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies. This award was established in 2003 and is supported by the Robison family. In 2012, additional support for […]
Role of land-grant universities in food and ag research is talk topic
Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)..explores the role of land-grant universities and the NIFA in addressing global challenges…As a scientist and department head, he has received a number of awards a…
Cook Alumna Named Coordinator of NJDA School Nutrition Programs
Arleen Ramos-Szatmary (CC’98) has been appointed the new Coordinator of School Nutrition Programs in the Division of Food and Nutrition at the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Ramos-Szatmary has been with the Department of Agriculture since 2000, first working as a program specialist reviewing school nutrition programs throughout the state for compliance with the School […]
Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Selman Waksman Nobel Prize
Rutgers University’s School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology hosted a symposium and dinner event on December 11-12, 2012 on the New Brunswick, NJ, campus in honor of the 60th anniversary of Selman Waksman receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
RU COOL on ESPN
This short video spot aired on national TV during ESPN’s coverage of the Rutgers vs. Louisville football game on November 29, 2012.
Finishing What He Started: Cancer Doesn’t Stop Golf Turf Management Student
After completing his first year of the two-year certificate program at the Rutgers Professional Golf Turf Management School, Keith ‘Skip’ Douglass returned home to Arizona and got some bad news: he had leukemia. He bravely battled the disease and seemed to recover. But just a few weeks before he was due back at Rutgers this […]
