Telema Briggs, School of Graduate Studies (SGS)-Nutritional Sciences program, has been chosen as a University and SGS Louis Bevier Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year for his dissertation “Is There Really an App for That?—Determining the Capacity for Utilizing Diet & Nutrition Smartphone Applications as Extensions of Professional Dietetic Practice”. He is the first Nutritional […]
Mark Robson Named Recipient of University’s 2021 Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor Mark Robson (CC’77, GSNB’79, ’88), has been named the 2021 recipient of the university’s Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award, which will be presented this fall. Robson was nominated for this award by Joanna Burger, Distinguished Professor of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and affiliate faculty in the Department of […]
George Carman Named Fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
George Carman, Board of Governors Professor of Food Science and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Lipid Research at the New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, has been named a fellow in the inaugural class of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, an honor bestowed only on the society’s most distinguished […]
Doctoral Student Heidi Yeh Selected for National Science Policy Network SciPol Scholars in Residence Program
Heidi Yeh, doctoral student in the graduate program in oceanography in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences is one of thirteen Science Policy Scholars announced this spring by the National Science Policy Network (NSPN), as part of their new hands-on science policy curriculum and training. The bootcamp training started the week of April […]
Senior Story: Eva Popp (SEBS’21) Wins Young Botanist Award
Eva Popp spent much of her undergraduate career exploring the field of botany and plant ecology, so it is fitting that the Botanical Society of America chose her to receive the Young Botanist Award. The purpose of the award is to offer individual recognition to outstanding graduating seniors in the plant sciences and to encourage […]
Senior Story: Nadia Fedoryka (SEBS’21) Finds her Path to Education, Close-knit Communities at Rutgers
When Nadia Fedoryka came to Rutgers four years ago, she wasn’t sure the direction she should take but knew she had time to figure it out. She loved science but wanted to know what makes individuals tick. Understanding the economy, she thought, would help her in life and whatever career she chose. So Fedoryka decided […]
Senior Story: For Food Science Major Parker Herrera (SEBS’21), It’s All Connected
Not knowing exactly what your career path will be can be stressful for college students. But for food science major Parker Herrera, it’s an opportunity to do what he enjoys: experiment. He loved his part-time job at The Spice & Tea Exchange in Haddonfield, New Jersey, where he helped create and sell custom spice blends and […]
LA Graduate Student’s Art Installation Connects and Documents Ecological Change in Abbot Farm Marshlands
In March 2021, Zoe Orlino, a graduate student in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, installed a series of bricolage art pieces at the Abbott Farm Marshlands in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. As the culmination of her thesis research on design, making and representation, these handcrafted pieces reveal the hidden story embedded in the […]
Distinguished Professor Joan Bennett Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She joins neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center atmospheric scientist Ann Thompson and media entrepreneur and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey. “Receiving this honor would not have been […]
Donald Schaffner Honored with the 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award
The 2021 Harold Macy Food Science and Technology Award was given to Donald Schaffer—extension specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Food Science—in recognition of his outstanding research to facilitate the adoption of predictive food microbiology and risk-based thinking in government and private industry to support science-based risk management and assurance […]
