What is a legacy? It can be a bequest, as in a will. It can be a tradition that survives the test of time. It can be a body of work or set of values or an achievement that lives on after one retires or dies. In the case of the late Professor Roy H. […]
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Andrea Cochran (CC ’76) FASLA Wins Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award
Andrea Cochran (CC ’76) received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Design Futures Council, recognizing lifelong design leaders for the contributions of their life and work to their profession for more than 40 years. The council, which was founded to connect leaders within the built environment industry and share ideas about technology, sustainability, and the business of […]
Rutgers Rising Memorial Service Held for First Time Since 2019
On September 22, the SEBS/NJAES Office of Alumni and Community Engagement hosted the Rutgers Rising Memorial Service to remember recently deceased alumni, faculty and staff from the school and the experiment station. Nearly 100 faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends attended the event held at the Cook Student Center to pay their respects and celebrate […]
Rutgers Rising Memorial Service Remembers Recently Deceased Alumni, Staff and Faculty
Rutgers Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources Bob Goodman and his office hosted the Rutgers Rising Memorial Service on September 19, 2019 to remember recently deceased alumni, faculty and staff from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Over 100 faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends attended the […]
Rutgers Gardens Celebrates its Centennial Anniversary in 2016
During Rutgers Historic 250th Year its ‘Secret Garden’ turns 100! Rutgers Gardens celebrated its Centennial on May 17th with an outdoor reception under a large tent in the Roy DeBoer Evergreen Gardens. Despite the rain, the tent was packed with faculty, staff, and many supporters and volunteers. This historic moment in the Gardens’ history was […]
Kenneth Possenriede CC’82 – Opening Doors
Donors who support scholarships for higher education consistently designate their gifts for second-year students and above, subscribing to the theory that these students have demonstrated an academic track record that makes them deserving of scholarship support. In the case of Ken Possenriede (CC’82) and his wife Jennifer (DC’83), however, their longtime and generous scholarship assistance […]
Alumni Story: David Earl (CC’76) – True to His School
Many alumni support their alma mater with time, talent, and treasure. But few are as true to their school as David Earl, who started giving back to Rutgers shortly after his graduation in 1976 and has continued to this day. David is a section chief in the Office of Landscape Architecture of the New Jersey […]
Unearthing a Buried Treasure, Part II: Student’s Vision for Trail Renovation Enabled by Fellow Students
The Arbor Trail is located behind the University Inn and Conference Center on the Douglass Campus. Rutgers purchased the property in 1965. The Inn is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and the trail had its grand re-opening on Rutgers Day 2015 on April 25, as part of the Inn’s anniversary celebration. In 1908, armed […]
Alumni Story: Mark Zarrillo (CAES ’70), Present at the Revolution
The Department of Landscape Architecture each year honors an alumnus/a who has contributed substantially to the landscape architecture profession. Mark J. Zarrillo, Class of 1970, is the Rutgers University Department of Landscape Architecture 2014 Outstanding Alumnus. As part of the honor, Mark was invited to the G.H. Cook Campus recently to deliver a presentation in […]
Alumni Story: Andrea Cochran’s Journey from Art to ‘Artist of the Land’
Editor’s Note: In this series of alumni accounts prepared by the Office of Alumni and Community Engagement, a thread that binds them is the recurring reference to the enormous transformational impact our students have experienced during their days at Rutgers. This is one of those stories. It is June 2014. The year is just half […]
