Faculty Accomplishments

Rutgers University is home to a diverse and accomplished faculty community dedicated to advancing knowledge, fostering innovation, and preparing the next generation of leaders. Our faculty members are experts in their fields, conducting groundbreaking research, publishing cutting-edge scholarship, and earning prestigious awards and recognition for their contributions to their respective disciplines.

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Louis Sass Achieves the 2024 Rollo May Award

Women Mathematicians Thrive at Rutgers, Continuing a Tradition from the 1960s

Rutgers Astronomer Kristen McQuinn Is Named Mission Head of Science Operations Center for NASA’s Next Space Telescope

Aaron Bernstein Receives a Sloan Research Fellowship

Naa Oyo Kwate to Receive the 2024 Best Book Award in the Field of Urban Affairs

Lily Y. Young Receives the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award

Ruta Jog and Geordan J. Stukey Were Awarded the George M. and Maureen D. Carman Prize in Lipids

Rutgers Plant Geneticist Jim Simon Wins Distinguished Service to NJ Agriculture Award

Four Rutgers Professors Awarded Fellowships at Prestigious Institute for Advanced Study

NASA Picks Rutgers Scientist Juliane Gross to Assist on First Crewed Lunar Landing Mission in Over 50 Years

Rutgers Team to Receive $1 Million in Federal Funding for Smart Kids and Cool Seniors Project

Victoria Abraira, Who Studies the Sense of Touch, Named Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities Names Airelle Smith Winner of Rago-Craft Award

Faculty Year-End Excellence Awards

Graduate School of Education Wins National Award for Multicultural Education and Diversity

National Academy of Sciences Elects Three From Rutgers

Two Rutgers Professors Named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

Three Rutgers Professors Named Sloan Research Fellows

Lily Young Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering

Nine Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Linda Flynn, School of Nursing Dean, Wins National Education Award

Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Frank Ghinassi Named Chair of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare Board of Trustees

Rutgers Health Professor Theresa Miskimen Chosen as President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Association

Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health received $4.2 Million Grant to Train Health Professionals and Improve Care

Lucio Volino Selected as an American Pharmacists Association Fellow

Rutgers Health Receives More Than $7 Million in Grants to Study Tobacco Disinformation

Rutgers Health Receives $3 Million U.S. Grant to Study Impact of Environmental Factors on Pregnancy and Children’s Health

Rutgers Professors Fred Russell Kramer and Patrick Sinko, Named 2023 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Rutgers Receives $4.2 Million to Develop Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans

Rutgers Health Regional Biocontainment Lab Plans Renovation and Expansion

Rutgers Is Awarded $20 Million to Lead Consortium of Seven Universities and Eight Nations to Curb Tuberculosis

Rutgers Receives $18.8 Million to Prepare for the Future of Aging

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Wins Research Pioneer Award

Rutgers Cardiology Leader to Receive Gifted Educator Award

Infectious Disease Expert Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Chancellor Brian Strom Receives Heart of BioNJ Award

Rutgers Dean Robert Johnson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Rutgers University–Newark

MLA’S Scaglione Prize for African Studies Awarded to Belinda Edmondson

Angelo Soto-Centeno's Roots in Puerto Rico Shaped His Research on Biodiversity

Research With Potential to Expedite Data-Sharing Among Scientists Studying Diseases Wins Support of NIH

Rutgers-Newark Receives $7.4 Million Federal Grant to Continue Long-Term Study on Alzheimer’s Risks in African Americans

Journalism Professor Gaiutra Bahudur Completes First-Ever Fellowship in Indentureship Studies at Cambridge University

Biologist Charlotte Francoeur Awarded $240K NSF Fellowship to Study Honeypot Ant Microbes at Rutgers–Newark

Lily Khadempour is Empowering Women Scientists of Color

Chancellor Cantor Named to Carnegie Foundation Commission on Underrepresented Students

Judith S. Weis, Champions NY/NJ Estuary, Winning Designation as "Hope Spot"

Alex Hinton Wins Anthropology in Media Award for Raising Awareness of Genocide and Human Rights

John Keene Wins National Book Award

Rutgers-Newark Professor Salamishah Tillet Receives Pulitzer Prize

Rutgers–Newark Researchers Win $2.7 Million Grant to Boost Minority Student Performance in Math

Sarah Lageson, SCJ Associate Professor,  honored with prestigious award

Rutgers University–Camden 

Rutgers–Camden Mathematician Benedetto Piccoli Honored for Wide-Ranging Research

Rutgers–Camden Animation Program Ranked #1 in New Jersey

English Professor Lauren Grodstein Joins Today Show Book Club with Powerful New Novel

Rutgers–Camden Wins 2024 Richard Guarasci Award for Institutional Transformation

School of Nursing–Camden Professor Rachel Derr Honored by New Jersey League for Nursing

Associate Professor Emily Marker Wins American Historical Association Award for Her Book Black France, White Europe 

Kimberlee Sue Moran is Unearthing the History of New Jersey’s Indigenous People

Lessons from South Central 

Assistant Professor Maria E. Solesio Is Unraveling the Mysteries of the Cell

Help Is on the Way

Nursing Professor Janice Beitz, Leads the Way in Wound Care

Rutgers University–Camden Welcomes 21 New Faculty Members for 2023-24 Academic Year

Rutgers–Camden Has Partnered With Paraguay’s Largest University in Transformative Collaboration

Rutgers–Camden Promotions and Tenure Appointments

2022–2023 Universitywide Faculty Year-End Excellence Award Recipients

Supradeep Dutta Wins Bright Ideas Award

Grace Brannigan Earns $2M National Science Foundation Grant to Advance Artificial Intelligence in Biological Research

Rutgers–Camden Chemists Create Sustainable Materials While Succeeding Against the Odds

Oscar Holmes IV Named American Council on Education Fellow

Robin Cogan, Rutgers–Camden lecturer, inducted into the National Academy of School Nursing