National Transfer Student Week—every third week in October—celebrates transfer students and the professionals who support them on their journeys. Join us in recognizing those who have made this journey! #TransferStudentWeek. Here we meet Pruthvi Talvekar, a junior majoring in Biological Sciences with a minor in Business Administration. Talvekar transferred from Middlesex County College right when COVID hit in the Spring of 2020. […]
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Catching up With Young Alumni Starting their Careers
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15), we caught up with some of our recent alumni to see where they are in their journey as they launch their careers. Breanna Robles SEBS’16 (Landscape Architecture), GSNB’17 (Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture) Designer, Studio Zewde Part-time lecturer, Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture “I was hired […]
A Proud Product of EOF, Kevin Guerrero (SEBS’19), Thrives in Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Kevin Guerrero (SEBS’19, Exercise Science) is a first-year medical student at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, who was born in North Bergen but raised in West New York, NJ. Although born in the U.S., he considers his upbringing as having always been heavily influenced by his Mexican and Latinx culture. Both of his parents […]
Michelle De Freitas-Montes (SEBS’18), SEBS EOF Alumna and Future Physician
Michelle De Freitas-Montes is a self-described “first-generation Hispanic immigrant, and avid lover of sport, food and culture who hopes to work with underserved populations as a future physician.” To that end, she is enrolled at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and working towards that coveted medical degree. Exactly what specialty, Michelle is not yet sure […]
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 […]
The Passing of a Cook Campus Icon: Bruce ‘Doc’ Hamilton
The SEBS Community is mourning the loss of Bruce ‘Doc’ Hamilton who died on Tuesday, August 31. Bruce was a Rutgers Alum from the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, going on to Penn State for his MS and PhD. He returned to the faculty in June of 1966 to teach classes on Plant Materials and […]
