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Three generations of a family, spanning 60 years, are proud to proclaim they are alumni. One family, three generations of it, spans 60 years of attending Rutgers—the perfect personification of what it means to be scarlet forever. Donald E. Seccia graduated from Rutgers College with a journalism degree in 1956. His twin daughters attended Rutgers, […]
Biochemistry and Microbiology
A New Endowed Chair, A New Frontier
For Liping Zhao, world renowned researcher and the School’s new Douglas and Linda Eveleigh and Dennis and Linda Fenton Endowed Chair in Applied Microbiology, the study of the human microbiome brings to mind the Indian parable of the blind men and the elephant: in the story, each blind man touches and studies a different part […]
Rutgers Senior Flourishes after Leaving Egypt During ‘Arab Spring’
Chris Wakim (SEBS’17) faced an uncertain future when his parents’ high school graduation gift—a trip to the United States—brought him to New Jersey. The pro-democracy movement in Egypt made life there unsafe and Wakim saw no future for himself as far as a career was concerned. The political instability forced his parents to make a […]
Open and Affordable Textbooks Project Saves Students Nearly $1.6 Million
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Rutgers Today. Three of the recipients of the Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Project grants are faculty at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. They include Xenia Morin, Natalya Voloshchuk and Jill Lipoti, with projected savings for their students of $23,945.00. What is the Open and Affordable […]
Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Awards Five Mini-Grants for Work in The Raritan River, Basin and Bay
The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium has awarded five mini-grants to support research by Rutgers faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers on Raritan River, basin and bay resource issues.; All five mini-grants involve partnerships with Raritan stakeholders; four of them were given to faculty in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The five recipients and their […]
In Memoriam: H. Boyd Woodruff (AG’43)
H. Boyd Woodruff (AG’43) Distinguished research scholar H. Boyd Woodruff passed away on January 19, 2017 at the age of 99. Woodruff studied under Selman Waksman as a graduate student in the Department of Microbiology and discovered the first antibiotic in Rutgers history, actinomycin, which has been used in treating Wilms Disease, a childhood cancer. […]
Jennifer Rakeman (CC’94) is Chief of New York City’s Zika Testing Lab
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Rutger’s Today. Rakeman is the assistant commissioner and laboratory director for the New York City Public Health Lab and is responsible for conducting testing for the Zika virus. But she comes to this enormous responsibility well-prepared. Her journey began in her junior year at Rutgers. She was interested […]
Distinguished Professor Max Häggblom Named US-Faculty Scholar by Vietnam Education Foundation
Max Häggblom, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, was named a US-Faculty Scholar for the 2016-2017 academic year by the Vietnam Education Foundation. The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) is an independent U.S. Federal Government agency created by the U.S. Congress with the mission to strengthen the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relationship through […]
Youngest Summer Scholar Ever, 9-Year-Old Ennyn Chiu, Finds a Perfect Fit at Rutgers
Ennyn and her 11-year-old sister Enna are studying green-fluorescent protein and other scientific concepts with William Ward, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology. The high, sweet voice of Ennyn Chiu sounds every bit like that of a 9-year-old girl, exuberant with a touch of singsong. But the words she uses, an extensive vocabulary combined with confident, […]
Bioinformaticist Yana Bromberg Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Yana Bromberg, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the NSF. Bromberg is the principal investigator of the project, “Molecular functional diversity of microbes and microbiomes,” which is being supported by $1,091,177 in NSF funding. Microbes dominate life on Earth and evolutionary […]
