Laura Lawson, interim executive dean at Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, recently received an Honorary American FFA Degree from the National FFA (Future Farmers of America.) Lawson, along with her fellow honorary degree recipients, were recognized as “individuals who have provided exceptional service on a national level to agriculture, agricultural education, or FFA.” […]
Rutgers Among Four Institutions Awarded National Grant to Combat White-nose Syndrome in Bats
Principal investigator Brooke Maslo, associate professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, was awarded $268,081 to field-test a promising method of treating environmental reservoirs of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome in bats. The Rutgers grant is part of a total of $770,000 in grants awarded by the National Fish and […]
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Mark Robson Delivered the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award Lecture
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Mark Robson (CC’77; GSNB’79, ’88; SPH’95), the 2021 recipient of the university’s Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, delivered the accompanying lecture, “Rutgers – A Public University in the Land Grant Tradition that Provides Opportunities: How We Can Teach Our Students to Address Critical Global Issues,” on October 19. Robson’s presentation […]
Mark Robson to Deliver Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award Lecture on October 19
Mark Robson, an internationally recognized scholar in environmental risk assessment and toxicology and a dedicated student mentor who first came to Rutgers as an undergraduate nearly 50 years ago, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award. The Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology at […]
Elizabeth Wright-Fairbanks Named Recipient of the 2021 Walter Munk Scholar Award and Commemorative Lecture
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 […]
