Elizabeth Wright-Fairbanks, graduate assistant in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Walter Munk Scholar Award and Commemorative Lecture, which is jointly sponsored by the Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans and the Marine Technology Society. Established in 2019, the award honors renowned oceanographer Walter Munk for […]
National Science Foundation Awards Rutgers a $750,000 Convergence Accelerator Grant
NSF invests $21 million to tackle two complex societal challenges: the networked blue economy, and trust and authenticity in communication systems and will fund 28 teams to fast-track solutions toward with a positive societal impact The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers a $750,000 Convergence Accelerator grant for the project, “Regional climate change projections […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Morris County Win Prestigious International Award
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Morris County is proud to announce that the Rutgers Master Gardener Community Garden Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Team has won 1st Place in the 2021 David Gibby International Master Gardener Conference Search for Excellence (IMGCSFE), Innovative Projects Category. This team of volunteers regularly inspects plots in Morris County community gardens to identify insects, diseases, […]
Rutgers Alumnus Paul Orbe (CC’94) Receives Fulbright Award
On August 31, the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Paul Orbe (CC’94), an-award winning teacher, has received a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program award. He teaches Honors Chemistry and Forensic Science at Union City High School in New Jersey. Orbe has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from […]
Rutgers Graduate Julia Engdahl Wins NOAA CO-OPS Professional Excellence Award
Julia Engdahl, a graduate of the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies’ Oceanography program, recently won a Professional Excellence Award during her first year as a contractor for NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, CO-OPS. Julia is also a recent graduate of the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership, RUCOOL. In announcing the […]
National Society Names Inaugural Award in Honor of Rutgers Professor Emerita Bonnie McCay
The Anthropology and Environment Society, a section of the American Anthropological Association—the world’s largest scholarly and professional organization of anthropologists—recently inaugurated the Bonnie J. McCay Junior Scholar Award in recognition of McCay’s significant contributions to environmental anthropology, human ecology, marine affairs and theories of governance. McCay, professor emerita of human ecology at Rutgers, was a […]
Four from Rutgers Named 2022 NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellows
Four graduates from Rutgers, which had the most of any institution in the U.S., have been selected for the 2022 class of the NOAA and Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program. Janine Barr, Schuyler Nardelli and Elizabeth Liza-Fairbanks (Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences) and Ashlyn Spector (Department of Earth and Planetary […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agents Receive National, Regional and State Awards at 2021 NACAA Virtual Conference
The National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) is an organization of professional extension educators that furthers the professional improvement of its members. Each year NACAA recognizes professional excellence in Cooperative Extension nationwide through its annual conference. Rutgers Cooperative Extension agents have been selected as state, regional, and national winners for the 2021 NACAA annual […]
SEBS Faculty Win University Research Council Awards
Congratulations to Katherine Dawson, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Anita Bakshi, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Pamela McElwee, associate professor in the Department of Human Ecology, on winning awards from the University’s Research Council. Established in 1943 as a faculty committee to advise the President on matters […]
New Jersey 4-H Animal Art Show Winners Announced
4-H members from throughout the state took part in the first ever, New Jersey 4-H Animal Art Contest held virtually in April and May. All entries were animal related and were organized into five categories – 1) Dog, 2) Equine, 3) Livestock (beef, dairy, goats, sheep, and swine), 5) Small Animals (rabbits, gerbils, hamsters, guinea […]
