On September 26, the Log Cabin and Alumni Pavillion at Rutgers Gardens were festively decorated for the annual Gardens Party, which celebrated its 2019 Hamilton Award winner Dennis Werner, ornamental plant breeder and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU). More than 100 Rutgers Gardens’ members and supporters, interns as well as […]
Mukund Karwe Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award in Food Engineering
Mukund Karwe, distinguished professor in the Department of Food Science, received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Engineering and Food (IAEF) during the 13th International Congress on Engineering and Food held in Melbourne, Australia, from September 23-26. The IAEF Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes long-serving experts for their “lifelong contribution and international impact […]
Lena Struwe Receives American Society of Plant Taxonomists’ 2019 Peter Raven Award for Exceptional Outreach to Non-Scientists
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) announced that Lena Struwe, professor and director of the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Peter Raven award. The award is named for Peter Raven, eminent botanist and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, […]
Rutgers Master Gardeners of Hunterdon County Sensory Garden Team Wins 1st Place at the 2019 International Master Gardeners Conference
The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Hunterdon County Sensory Garden Team, led by certified Rutgers Master Gardener Linda Klug, was awarded 1st place in the Search for Excellence Competition at the 2019 International Master Gardeners Conference in Valley Forge, PA in June. Search for Excellence (SFE) is the recognition program of the Extension Master Gardener volunteer […]
Michael Acquafredda Named 2020 NOAA Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Finalist
Michael Acquafredda, doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution in the School of Graduate Studies, is among 69 national finalists in the 2020 class of the NOAA and Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program. Named after one of Sea Grant’s founders and former NOAA Administrator John A. Knauss, the fellowship is […]
Graduate Student’s Novel Research Secures Multiple Grants and ESA Presentation Award
Rafael Valentin, enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies’ Ecology & Evolution graduate program, has been awarded two graduate student research grants for his novel research utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) in terrestrial systems. Valentin, who is affiliated with both the Lockwood and Fonseca labs in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources (DEENR), received […]
Two SEBS Faculty Receive Fulbright Scholar Grants
Two professors from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences have received Fulbright Scholar grants for research and teaching abroad next year at institutions in Brazil. Eric Lam in plant biology and pathology will continue his work on improving biofuel production by enhancing plant sources. Daniel Hoffman in nutritional sciences will lead seminars and teach […]
N.J. Legislature Honors Rutgers on the 150th Anniversary of its Designation as the State’s Land-Grant Institution
The New Jersey Legislature commemorated the 150th anniversary of Rutgers’ designation as the land-grant institution for the state of New Jersey by passing a joint resolution in the Senate on Sept. 22. In 1862, Congress passed the Land-Grant College Act, a landmark statute also known as the Morrill Act, which established a system of land-grant […]
Doctoral Student Amanda Wenczel Awarded New Jersey Sea Grant Scholarship
Amanda Wenczel, a doctoral candidate in Ecology and Evolution working at the Haskin Lab, is the winner of the New Jersey Sea Grant (NJSG) Stew Tweed Scholarship Award for 2014. Stew Tweed was a student of Hal Haskin, for whom the Rutgers Haskin Lab is named, and later spent a productive career as a County […]
Graduate Assistant Wins Prestigious Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship
Research Assistant Anna Hermes, a master’s of oceanography candidate in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, was recently selected for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC). The Knauss Fellowship Program, created in 1979 as a Sea Grant vehicle to match marine science-interested graduate students with hosts in the […]
