The Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) has received a five-year, $5 million cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to investigate the use of steel slag in cement and concrete.
Prizes & Awards
Internationally renowned Rutgers University scientist and former director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Joachim Messing, was posthumously honored as this year’s recipient of the Science and Technology Medal from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for his groundbreaking work in shotgun DNA sequencing.
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Rutgers startup Queens Carbon has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to receive funding as part of the latest Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program.
Lily Young, a Distinguished Professor of Environmental Microbiology at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, received the Daniel Gorenstein Memorial Award for outstanding scholarly achievement and exceptional service.
Basil varieties that are resistant to the deadly downy mildew disease. A computational tool that calculates the probability of the number of contributors in a DNA profile. These two innovations share two things in common: both were developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and both received Edison Patent Awards at the Research & Development Council of New Jersey (RDNJ) annual banquet on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.
Four faculty members in Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences have been awarded memberships for the 2023-24 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, one of the world’s foremost centers for intellectual inquiry into the sciences and the humanities.
Rutgers researchers nearly swept the 2023 Philadelphia Nucleate Activator Program awards, highlighted by a team focusing on the creation of a new binge-eating disorder drug taking the High Performance Grand Prize.