Seven farmers and others actively involved in New Jersey agriculture received Distinguished Service to Agriculture Citations from the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture during the New Jersey State Agricultural Convention. Those honored at the Joint Agricultural Convention Dinner Banquet were Dave Bond, Sam Conard, Alan Danser, Dan Farrand, Monique Purcell, David Van Vorst, each […]
Scarlet Fire® Dogwood Created at Rutgers Takes Home Gold
Rutgers researchers developed the award-winning Scarlet Fire® dogwood for Rutgers’ 250th birthday A world-renowned dogwood tree developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has been named a Gold Medal Plant by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society (PHS). Introduced in 2017 and created in part by Thomas Molnar, an associate professor of plant biology within the […]
Dennis Dagounis (CC’01), Excelling as an Educator
The Governor’s Educator of the Year Program is run annually and recognizes educators of the year by district, county, and state. Dennis Dagounis CC’01 was named 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year for Union County on August 25, 2021. Among the 200,000 teachers in the state, Dennis was one of 21 lucky county award recipients. His […]
Distinguished Professor Dipak Sarkar Ranked Among Top Expert in Pro-Opiomelanocortin
Dipak Sarkar, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, has been recognized as an Expertscape world expert in pro-opiomelanocortin. This peptide molecule produces multiple hormones including beta-endorphin, α-melanocyte stimulating hormone, and adrenocorticotropic hormone. These hormones are made mainly in the brain and regulate many body functions including feeling good, addiction, stress control, metabolic regulation […]
SEBS Faculty Max Häggblom and Julie Lockwood Among Rutgers Professors Named AAAS Fellows
Max Häggblom, Distinguished Professor and chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, and Julie Lockwood, professor and chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, were among 12 Rutgers faculty – the largest group ever from the university – to be elected to the newest class of fellows for the American Association for the […]
New Jersey 4-Hers Win the North American Dairy Educational Experience Dairy Bowl
With COVID-19 preventing an in-person contest, organizers developed the North American Dairy Educational Experience (NADEE), where youth evaluate a scenario on a dairy operation and provide responses to prompts about the operation. One team per state could enter. The winning team was from New Jersey and is part of the borrow-a-dairy heifer program facilitated by […]
Nick Vorsa Receives Service to Industry Award from Wisconsin Cranberry Growers
Rutgers professor of plant biology Nicholi Vorsa was named as a 2022 recipient of the Service to Industry Award at the December 2021 Board of Directors meeting of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association (WSCGA). The WSCGA awards are given to individuals for their work on behalf of the WSCGA and the Wisconsin cranberry community. […]
Maya Ziab (SEBS’22) Part of Rutgers Team That Wins the EPA Clean Indoor Air Challenge
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and 10 federal, state, tribal and local organizations recently announced the Phase 1 winners of the ‘Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge,’ which is designed to stimulate the advancement of new technologies to clean indoor air during wildfire smoke events and other high pollution days. Among the five Phase 1 […]
NJ Farm Bureau Awards Wes Kline 2021 Distinguished Service to New Jersey Agriculture
Wesley Kline, agricultural and resource management agent with Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cumberland County, has been awarded the New Jersey Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award for 2021, presented at the New Jersey Farm Bureau Annual Meeting on November 15 at the Westin Princeton Hotel in Princeton, NJ. The award is presented annually by […]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agents William Errickson and Timothy Waller Honored by Statewide Nursery and Landscape Associations
The New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association (NJLCA) conferred its 2021 “Educator of the Year Award” on William “Bill” Errickson, RCE agent (Monmouth County), Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Timothy “Tim” Waller, RCE agent (Cumberland County), Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, at the association’s annual dinner in October. Waller was also recognized with the […]
