As an adventurous young man, Ratemo Michieka (CAES’74) left his home in Kenya to travel to the United States and to Rutgers to study agronomy, attracted to the university “because of its excellent reputation” even as far away as East Africa. As the story goes, his parents were peasant farmers who used the income from […]
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Rutgers Cooperative Extension Welcomes Back Retirees to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
This year, as Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) celebrates the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 that created the Cooperative Extension Service, what better way to commemorate its history than to invite back those who were part of its past? To this end, a luncheon for RCE retirees was held at […]
Five Cook Alumni Honored for Careers, Service
The George Hammell Cook Distinguished Alumni Awards and the Dennis M. Fenton Distinguished Graduate Alumni Awards for 2014 have been bestowed on five graduates – three with undergraduate degrees and two with doctoral degrees – by the Cook Community Alumni Association. The winners are Gary Brackett (Cook ’03), Hank Ebert (Cook ’79), George Hamilton (GSNB […]
Alumni Story: Linking Public Health to the Environment – Jorge Berkowitz (CAES ’68, GSNB-Env. Sci. ’74 & ’78)
It’s fair to say that the youthful Jorge Berkowitz was “practical.” Although now a vice president of a major environmental consulting firm and a highly regarded expert in environmental and public health, he acknowledges that his goals weren’t so lofty in his early college years. He arrived at Rutgers in 1964 as a somewhat reluctant […]
Kristina Guttadora (CC ’99): Dedication to Helping Others Started Here
Last time we saw Kristina Mayberry Guttadora (Plant Biology, ’99) she was lugging huge bags of collard greens that had been gleaned from farmer Jim Giamarese’s field and was loading them on a truck for area food banks. Kristina is program director of Farmers Against Hunger, and since taking over in June 2011 has tirelessly […]
