SEBS and NJAES Community Chronicle

December 2024

Students and Prof Yanhong Jin photo

Undergrad Success

For undergraduate students in Prof. Yanhong Jin’s class, research opens a vast pipeline to presenting research findings at professional meetings and having their research published. Read more.

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Graduate Research

Doctoral candidate José Ramírez-Garofalo has tracked new species, insect and otherwise. He discusses the movement of the Joro spider, a palm-sized arachnid native to Japan. Read more.

Community

The Association of Public Land-Grant Universities presented its Innovation and Economic Prosperity University award to representatives of Rutgers-New Brunswick during its annual meeting in Fl, in recognition of the university’s substantial and sustained commitment to economic engagement in the region. Read more.

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Peggy Brennan-Tonetta, Senior Associate Director of NJAES with oversight of the internationally renowned business incubators–Rutgers Food Innovation Center, which she helped establish in 2000, and the Rutgers EcoComplex, will retire at the start of 2025. Read more.

Photo of Peggy Brennan Tonetta

Wendie Cohick, who has served as the NJAES Director of Research and the inaugural Dean of Research and Graduate Education for SEBS/NJAES, will begin a new role in January 2025 as the Vice Provost for Research for Rutgers-New Brunswick. Read more.

Photo of Wendie Cohick
Research

Faculty who are engaged in global food security research in the vast island nation in the North Pacific recently hosted two of its distinguished leaders in a tour of the school’s plant and marine science labs, research fields, and greenhouses. Read more.

Visitors and Rutgers staff in a lab

Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology Mark Robson, dean of the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, received the award in recognition for his “significant contributions to Thai higher education, science, research and innovation.” Read more.

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Global

One of several participating Rutgers units, RUCOOL showcased its offshore wind energy efforts to attendees in the Graduate Student Symposium and Industry-Student Networking Event, which was part of a larger North American Wind Energy Academy /WindTech 2024 conference hosted at Rutgers. Read more.

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