Omar M. Abuattieh, a Rutgers doctoral student at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, has been selected as a 2026 Rhodes Scholar, earning one of the most prestigious international academic honors available to college graduates
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.
Stories
The Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences’ Immersive Learning through Science Storytelling Lab has been honored by the New Jersey State Senate in a joint legislative resolution that describes the lab as having “established a model worthy of emulation and set a standard toward which others might strive.”
The Immersive Learning through Science Storytelling Lab, developed by SEBS scientists, science storytellers, STEM learning researchers and youth educators, has been awarded the Broader Vision Award by the Garden State Film Festival.
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.
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.