Category: Awards

On May 10th, Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway presented RUCOOL’s Grace K. Saba with the “The Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award.” “Each year these awards honor members of the Rutgers community selected by their colleagues for outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and public service . . . I hope you share our pride in...

Corday Selden has been awarded a Rutgers Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship.  This is an extremely competitive program and Corday’s strong proposal focused on the underlying biology driving isotopic fractionation.  This presidential position offers a potential transition to the faculty.  We are very lucky to having Corday as part of our “nerd...

Congratulations to Lauren Cook on winning the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society's Best Student Presentation!!

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD  Kay Bidle Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences   TEAM EXCELLENCE AWARD  Explorers of the Deep 4-H STEM Challenge   Team members include: Janice McDonnell, Marissa Staffen, Matthew Newman, Kasey Walsh, Alesha Vega, Sage Lichtenwalner, Chad Ripberger, Josh Kohut, Douglas Zemeckis, Oscar Schofield, Rachel Lyons, Nicole Waite,...

Please join me in congratulating our students here at the International Oceans Meeting sponsored by the Marine Technology Society and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The student poster competition brings the top students among all the student papers submitted to the workshop to participate in a competition. Rutgers had 3...

Ocean News & Technology Young Professional Award: Presented to an MTS member, 35 years of age or younger, who has demonstrated leadership in the Society and works in a professional capacity in management, engineering, or research and development in a marine technology field. Recipient – Ms. Cassidy Gonzalez-Morabito, Systems Test...

Congratulations, to Samantha Alaimo who has been selected to participate in the inaugural NJ Wind Institute Fellowship Program at Rutgers University. As a fellow, she will receive a stipend in the total amount of $30,000 in support of her research assistantship with Travis Miles and Josh Kohut. Sam applied as...

Congratulations Elisabeth Sikes who has been awarded the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research (SCAR) Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research!  This medal is a recognition of excellence in Antarctic and Southern Ocean research and outstanding service to the international Antarctic community, both of which are critical to advancing SCAR's vision and...

Congratulations to Vince Clementi and Lisa Herbert who received NSF postdoctoral fellowship.  This is a very nice achievement. Vince also was awarded a second year NRC funding to complete his PhD thesis before he transitions to the postdoc track.  He will stay at Rutgers.